Senior II Engineer - Commercial Technology

The role

You will provide technical leadership for the Marketing & Commercial Data capability. You will own the technical direction, lead architectural thinking, and mentor engineers to ensure secure and scalable solutions.

What you will do

• Own the technical direction for the Marketing & Commercial Data capability.
• Lead architectural thinking and significant technical decisions.
• Establish and champion engineering standards, patterns and practices.
• Maintain visibility of architecture, technical debt, and lifecycle risks.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and guidance to engineers.
• Mentor engineers and technical specialists.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager to align technical strategy and delivery.
• Translate business requirements into technical approaches.
• Ensure solutions are designed for security, resilience, scalability, and observability.
• Lead the technical transition from established marketing platforms to Salesforce-based capabilities.

Required qualifications

• Experience managing, leading or designing a Customer Data Platform.
• Significant software engineering experience working with complex production systems, platforms or enterprise technology.
• Experience providing technical leadership across engineering teams or significant technology capabilities.
• Strong architectural and engineering judgement.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices and the design of secure, resilient, scalable and maintainable systems.
• Experience identifying and managing technical debt, architectural risk, technology lifecycle concerns and cross-system dependencies.
• Experience working closely with engineers to solve complex technical problems.
• Experience balancing immediate delivery needs with longer-term architecture and engineering quality.
• Strong understanding of operational excellence, observability, reliability and production engineering.
• Experience working effectively with Product, Engineering, Data, Programme and business stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate complex technical considerations and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working across teams and influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate area.

Nice to have

• Experience leading technical change across significant platform or technology transformations
• Experience with Salesforce, marketing technology, customer data platforms, enterprise SaaS ecosystems or complex integration architectures

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Medical cover
• Inclusive parental leave packages
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Opportunities to give back to the community

About the company

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Its Product & Tech teams deliver products to over one million digital subscribers daily.