Financial Times - Principal Engineer - Corporate Technology

Remote - London3w ago

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Requirements

• Extensive background in senior engineering leadership within a complex technology organisation, including management across multiple enterprise platforms, products or technology capabilities. • Solid knowledge of enterprise SaaS ecosystems and the engineering methods necessary to integrate, operate, and develop business-critical platforms effectively. • Experience with leading enterprise platforms like Oracle Fusion, Workday, or similar People, Finance, or ERP systems. • Solid grasp of contemporary integration methods, APIs, data flows, and cloud technologies. • Experience leading technology through significant transformation, implementation or modernisation programmes. • Experience establishing clear technical ownership and sustainable operating models for business-critical platforms. • Solid grasp of reliability, security, operational risk, and technology lifecycle management. • Experience working effectively with third-party technology vendors, implementation partners and managed service providers while maintaining strong internal ownership. • Experience leading and developing Engineering Leads, senior engineers or other experienced technical professionals, including coaching leaders and creating clear decision rights and accountability. • A track record of influencing senior business and technology collaborators and translating complex technical considerations into clear, pragmatic decisions. • Experience formulating technology strategies and roadmaps spanning multiple platforms or capabilities. • Strong technical judgement, with the ability to balance longer-term technical direction with delivery and business priorities. • Desirable • Experience with Oracle Fusion, Workday, and their broader technology environments. • Experience working with Finance, People, Procurement or other enterprise business capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define the engineering vision for Corporate Technology covering People, Finance, and Procurement platforms and services, converting FT and Internal Products technology strategy into specific priorities and roadmaps. • Deliver senior technical direction across enterprise platforms, integrations, data flows, and internally developed capabilities. • Work with Architecture and Engineering Leads to establish appropriate technical standards, patterns and guardrails, ensuring significant decisions consider security, resilience, scalability, operability, maintainability and cost. • Recognize systemic technical risks, lifecycle challenges, technical debt, and possibilities to simplify the technology estate, cut down on duplication, and boost interoperability. • Ensure Engineering Leads have clear accountability for the engineering, operation and continuous improvement of their platforms, with consistent expectations for engineering quality and technical ownership. • Support complex technical decisions and issues spanning multiple platforms, while creating appropriate autonomy for Engineering Leads. • Direct and cultivate Engineering Leads and senior engineers, improving technical judgement, platform ownership, succession, and specialist capability across the domain. • Offer senior engineering direction for key People, Finance, and Procurement technology efforts, ensuring new capabilities are transferred into lasting internal stewardship. • Support platform selection, implementation and major technology investment decisions, challenging approaches that introduce unnecessary complexity, operational risk or long-term dependency. • Maintain oversight of operational performance and technology risk, including reliability, observability, incident and change management, disaster recovery and business continuity. • Ensure platforms meet relevant FT security, data governance, compliance and technology standards. • Strengthen internal capability and knowledge to reduce unnecessary reliance on individual specialists, vendors and implementation partners. • Build strong relationships across People, Finance, Procurement, Product and Technology, helping collaborators understand technical trade-offs, risks and investment requirements. • Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Data, and other engineering leaders on decisions that span organisational or technology boundaries, representing Corporate Technology in relevant FT engineering and technology forums.

Benefits

• Our benefits differ depending on the location, but we are dedicated to offering top-tier perks at all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships, and opportunities to contribute to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here. • We currently operate a hybrid model which requires staff to work onsite 50% of the time, subject to role requirements & regular review. While flexible working requests will be considered, not all patterns are suitable for all roles. We believe this balanced approach supports flexibility and protects our culture, making collaboration and communication easier, building stronger relationships and team cohesion, and supporting peer learning. We reserve discretion on reasonable notice to change this approach either generally or for specific individuals or teams. • Accessibility • We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. • Let us know if you require any reasonable modifications or accommodations as part of the application process or to support your participation in an interview. If you want to discuss your needs or have any questions, please email [email protected] and a member of our team will be pleased to help. • Further Information • At the FT, we value innovation and technology and recognize that candidates might bring AI tools into their application process. You are welcome to harness AI to help with your application. However, it remains important that all details are authentic and accurately describe your skills, experience, and qualifications. • Candidates should be aware that AI may be monitored during the application process to maintain fairness and transparency for everyone involved. • Please be cautious of fake job listings and offers pretending to come from the Financial Times. Genuine roles will ask you to apply only via the official Financial Times careers website. The FT will never request financial details, payments, or referrals to outside parties during recruitment. If you doubt a job's authenticity or notice suspicious activity, email [email protected].