Technical Lead

About the Financial Times

Role and team

What you’ll work on

• Set technical direction and maintain engineering integrity for the capability.
• Ensure technology is secure, resilient, scalable, maintainable and aligned with engineering standards.
• Shape architecture and make or facilitate significant technical decisions.
• Balance delivery with long-term system health, reliability, security, operability, developer experience and technical debt.
• Mentor engineers, encourage ownership and help develop engineering capability.
• Collaborate with engineering, Product, Programme, business stakeholders and Commercial Technology leaders.

Technology landscape

• The marketing technology landscape is evolving toward Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next and Data 360 while established platforms are operated and transitioned.
• Existing platforms named include Bloomreach, Marketo and legacy Salesforce Marketing Cloud products for B2B and B2C marketing.
• Sales and Service technology work includes consolidating Salesforce CRM organisations and using data available through Data 360.

About you

• You are an experienced senior engineer with a strong software engineering background and a record of technical direction across business-critical products and platforms.
• You bring deep technical expertise, pragmatic judgement and experience shaping architecture and guiding complex technical decisions.
• You can communicate technical considerations clearly and make thoughtful trade-offs with technical and business stakeholders.
• You are motivated to mentor engineers and develop engineering culture; the role is not a people-management position.