Head of Architecture

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For airports, for partners, for people. We are CAVU.

At CAVU, our purpose is to find new and better ways to make airport travel seamless and enjoyable for everybody — from the smallest ideas to the biggest transformations. Every day is an opportunity to create better travel experiences.

From our revenue-accelerating single-platform technology, Propel, through to our world-class hospitality venues including 1903 and Escape Lounges, our solutions make travel smoother for passengers and more profitable for our clients and partners.

We know that to bring your best ideas, you need the space to think, the support to grow, and the freedom to be your authentic self. Whether you're working from our offices, from home, in our lounges, or on the road, we provide an environment where you can create, innovate, and help transform airport travel.

Together, we can reach new heights. Together, we are CAVU.

We're looking for a Head of Architecture to lead the technical direction, architectural strategy and engineering standards across CAVU's technology landscape, with a particular focus on Propel, our market-leading airport travel platform.

This is a senior technical leadership role, responsible for shaping modern, scalable and secure cloud-native solutions that support both current business priorities and future growth. You'll work closely with engineering, product and technology leaders to ensure architecture enables rapid delivery, commercial success and exceptional customer experiences.

Reporting to the Engineering Director, you'll lead a team of architects and technical specialists, providing both strategic direction and technical guidance across multiple disciplines. While this is not a hands‑on engineering role, we're looking for someone who remains close enough to modern software development practices to challenge thinking, influence technical decisions and support teams in solving complex problems.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future evolution of Propel as it continues to scale, support new products and integrations, and expand into new markets and airport partners globally.

• Define and evolve CAVU's architecture strategy, ensuring technology decisions align with business objectives, customer needs and long‑term platform scalability.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud and solution architecture, driving the adoption of modern architectural patterns and engineering best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical governance activities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and commercially effective.
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, principles and technology roadmaps across the organisation.
• Champion modern cloud‑native approaches and support the ongoing evolution of CAVU's technology platforms.
• Guide the architectural direction of Propel and associated products, ensuring they can scale effectively to support future business growth.
• Work closely with engineering teams to evaluate solution designs, technical approaches and implementation strategies.
• Support the successful delivery of new platform capabilities, integrations and international implementations.
• Drive continuous improvement across system performance, reliability, observability and operational excellence.
• Promote architecture decisions that balance customer experience, technical quality, speed of delivery and cost efficiency.
• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary architecture and technical quality team, creating a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships across engineering, product and business teams, acting as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate technical discussions and architecture forums, helping teams make informed decisions and align around shared objectives.
• Partner with internal and external delivery teams to ensure architectural consistency and high‑quality outcomes.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends and architectural approaches that could create…