Engineering Lead Post Booking Optimization - Toronto, ON

**Job no:** 533426 - C **Brand:** Product and Technology **Work type:** Full time **Location:** Ontario **Categories:** Digital and Technology **Engineering Lead Post Booking Optimization** Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers. The company, which is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia has company-owned leisure and corporate travel business in 23 countries, spanning Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. FCTG also operates a global corporate travel management network, which extends to more than 90 countries through company-owned businesses and independent licensees. The company opened its first leisure travel shop in Sydney, Australia in 1982 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1995. Our purpose is to “open up the world for those who want to see”. Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something really amazing – travel! **To learn more about Flight Centre Travel Group please click HERE** **About the Opportunity** We're looking for an Engineering Lead to own and drive the technical solution behind Post Booking Optimization. This is a high-impact opportunity to design and build systems that continuously monitor hotel reservations and air itineraries to secure better rates and fares for some of the world's largest corporate travel programs. You'll lead the architecture, solution design, integrations, and technical delivery across multiple teams, shaping a platform that operates safely, autonomously, and at scale. Working across both hotel and air, you'll play a critical role in modernizing travel technology, driving innovation, and harnessing AI to improve engineering outcomes **Key Responsibilities** * Own the end-to-end solution design for Post Booking Optimization across hotel and air, spanning the resources within the program and the teams we depend on. * Own and maintain the architectural blueprint, keeping every contributing team building to the same picture, and making trade-offs explicit. * Oversee the build and construction — design reviews, technical quality, and confidence that what is delivered matches what was designed. * Act as the technical counterpart for engineering teams that contribute to Post Booking Optimization but sit outside the program: agree interfaces and sequencing peer to peer, and escalate to the Program Leader when the question becomes one of priority or funding. * Drive integrations across partner platforms, including hotel and air content sources, mid-office, ticketing, and invoicing. * Design partner integrations so that adding or changing a provider is contained work rather than a rebuild. * Own engineering estimation and sizing, and push back where a requirement is not yet specific enough to size, or where the business rationale is not yet clear. * Design the end-to-end system to sca