Description:
We are looking for a Tech Lead – Departure & Compliance to own the technical strategy, architectural direction, and engineering excellence for our mission-critical airport platforms.
The Role Overview
In this role, you will lead the evolution of the software and data platforms that underpin our Departure & Compliance product area. You will ensure that departure-critical data—including passenger, flight, and regulatory information—is perfectly integrated and highly resilient across a distributed ecosystem of Departure Control Systems (DCS), reservation systems, and government authority platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on leadership to engineers. Set coding standards, review technical designs, and foster a culture of continuous learning.
- Architecture & Strategy: Define and own the technical architecture for the product suite. Drive the standardisation of integration patterns, APIs, and microservices.
- Product Partnership: Collaborate with Product Managers and Regional Delivery Leads to translate business needs into scalable roadmaps, effort estimates, and technical designs.
- Engineering Excellence: Champion modern engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native deployments, API-first design, and test automation.
- Operational Stability: Lead root cause analysis for critical production issues, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term maintainability and system observability.
What We Are Looking For
- Proven Experience: Background as a Technical Lead or Principal Engineer working on large-scale operational or mission-critical systems.
- Technical Stack: Strong software engineering roots with deep expertise in at least one major development stack (e.g., Java, .NET, Python).
- Cloud & Architecture: Proven experience designing cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS), event-driven architectures, and robust API integrations.
- DevOps Practice: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, automated testing, and infrastructure observability.
- Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with airline, airport, or transport operational systems is highly desirable.
- Influencing & Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language and build trust across cross-functional teams.
Core Competencies Required
- Design Thinking: Balancing short-term delivery goals with long-term architectural health and cost controls.
- Influence Without Authority: Aligning engineers, product teams, and senior stakeholders without relying on formal hierarchy.
- Commercial Awareness: Understanding the cost and performance implications of technical choices in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Accountability: Taking full ownership of technical outcomes and operational excellence once systems hit production.