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As the senior technical leader in this area of the business you will have a pivotable role in defining long term technical strategy, leading our engineers on how best to design and validate new product experiences across multiple UX platforms, ensuring that we operate securely and efficiently at scale, support the development and adoption of new technology standards, whilst guiding the evolution of our product platform APIs.Key ResponsibilitiesDefine and communicate the long-term technical vision for our meta-search product experience, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and scalability goalsServe as the primary technical stakeholder driving the strategic evolution of Skyscanner's product platforms APIs, ensuring the meet the needs of a growing global user base and our internal engineering teamsProvide technical leadership for large-scale, multi-quarter product initiatives and transformation projects, delivering impactful outcomes that drive business growth and enhanced customer satisfactionCollaborate with cross-functional leaders to align product and engineering strategies on business objectives, driving cohesive plans and impactful resultsDrive innovation and the strategic adoption of emerging technologies (such as AI or edge computing) to enhance site performance, scalability, and user experience, fostering a culture of technical experimentation and informed prototyping aligned with long-term goalsSet and evolve technology guidelines for building globally available sites and apps, leveraging industry standards for UX architecture while fostering innovation tailored to customer needsInspire, coach, and mentor engineers to contribute to and refine the long-term technical vision, fostering technical expertise and strategic thinking across the organisationEnable high-quality, rapid technical decision-making by guiding engineers with clear frameworks, best practices, and technical expertise to navigate complex challengesFoster a culture of engineering collaboration by promoting internal open-source practices, encouraging teams to contribute to and reuse shared platforms, tools, and frameworks, driving consistency, innovation, and efficiency across the organisationChampion a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement, empowering engineers to deliver resilient, high-performance systems and measurable efficiencies within a high-growth travel businessThe PersonExtensive experience in technical leadership for a globally available, high-traffic eCommerce site or digital-native environment, with a proven ability to drive scalability, resilience, and customer satisfactionStrong full-stack experience with modern UX technology stacks (native app and/or Web) and microservice-based distributed systems, leveraging languages such as Swift, Kotlin, Typescript or JavaProven expertise in product platform API strategy, design, implementation, and lifecycle management, with hands-on experience using JSON+REST and/or gRPC.Experience in designing and developing Data/AI-enabled products that deliver personalised user experiences, such as recommendation systems, dynamic pricing, or targeted content deliveryA proven advocate for data-informed decision-making, with experience implementing observability, analytics, and A/B testing frameworks to measure impact and drive continuous improvementExceptional stakeholder management skills, fostering collaboration across analytics, commercial, customer experience, data science, engineering, marketing, and product to deliver cohesive and impactful solutionsHands-on experience with cloud infrastructure services, including CDNs, web traffic security controls, and third-party integrations (e.g. Consent Management Platforms or GTM), ensuring performance, security, and complianceUnderstanding of the unique challenges and opportunities in building globally accessible applications, such as localisation, regional compliance, and infrastructure optimisationProven ability to collaborate with product organisations to define and uphold service levels, ensuring reliability, performance, and customer satisfactionDemonstrable experience fostering a culture of engineering collaboration, including driving adoption of internal open-source practices or contributing to leading open-source projects, building shared platforms, tools, or frameworks that enable teams to collaborate effectivelyDemonstrated success in leading and mentoring principal engineers, fostering technical excellence, career growth, and strategic impact across the organisationExperience working with distributed teams across different locations and timezones.#LI-DNI

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