Engineering Lead – ERP Services

The role

You will own the engineering, operation, and continuous evolution of the ERP technology capability. You will lead the ERP engineering team, providing people leadership and technical direction for platforms and services. You will work with Product and Finance stakeholders to translate business priorities into engineering plans.

What you will do

• Own the engineering, operation and continuous evolution of the ERP technology capability.
• Lead the ERP engineering team, providing people leadership and technical direction.
• Ensure ERP platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, maintainable and appropriately supported.
• Develop the technical knowledge of the team and establish clear ownership of platforms.
• Translate business priorities into engineering plans with Product and Finance stakeholders.
• Manage technical relationships with ERP vendors, implementation partners and specialist service providers.
• Ensure the team understands and owns the integrations and data flows connecting ERP with the wider FT technology estate.
• Own the operational performance of ERP Services.
• Identify and address technical debt, platform lifecycle concerns and key-person dependencies.
• Work with the Principal Engineer and Architecture on material technical decisions.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for complex, business-critical enterprise technology.
• Strong experience with ERP platforms or similarly complex enterprise SaaS ecosystems.
• Experience providing both people leadership and technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise platform engineering, including integrations, APIs, data flows and system dependencies.
• Experience owning technology through its full lifecycle, from change and delivery through to production operation and continuous improvement.
• Experience developing engineering capability and strengthening technical ownership within teams.
• Experience working with Finance or other complex enterprise business domains.
• Strong understanding of reliability, security, observability, operational risk and technology lifecycle management.
• Experience translating business priorities into engineering plans and balancing feature delivery with platform health and technical investment.
• Experience leading technical decisions involving enterprise SaaS platforms, integrations and supporting services.
• Experience working with vendors, implementation partners and managed service providers while maintaining internal technical ownership.
• Experience identifying and addressing technical debt, platform lifecycle concerns and key-person dependencies.

Nice to have

• Experience with Oracle Fusion or comparable enterprise ERP platforms
• Experience of major ERP transformation, implementation or modernisation

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days paid leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Parental Leave policy
• Food Allowance
• Multisport Card
• Both in house and external training programs
• Your own training dedicated budget (for conferences, courses etc.)

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 cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers daily.