Engineering Manager – Commercial Technology

The role

You will lead an engineering team responsible for the delivery, performance, and evolution of the Marketing & Commercial Data capability. You will manage engineering capacity, develop people, and partner with technical and product stakeholders to drive business outcomes.

What you will do

• Own engineering delivery across the Marketing & Commercial Data capability.
• Shape priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans with Product and technical leadership.
• Allocate engineering capacity and manage delivery risks and dependencies.
• Improve engineering processes, workflows, and documentation.
• Lead, support, and develop engineers through coaching and career development.
• Create an inclusive and psychologically safe engineering culture.
• Manage team capacity and sustainable workloads.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, and organisational change.
• Partner with the Technical Lead to provide people and technical leadership.
• Ensure capabilities are operationally ready, supportable, and sustainable.

Required qualifications

• Experience managing or leading software engineers within a collaborative engineering environment.
• Strong coaching, feedback and people-development skills.
• Experience leading engineering delivery across complex platforms or products.
• Experience balancing strategic programme delivery with operational responsibilities and longer-term engineering priorities.
• Strong understanding of engineering practices associated with secure, resilient and scalable production systems.
• Experience supporting teams responsible for operating and continuously improving business-critical technology.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in partnership with senior technical leaders, architects or Technical Leads.
• Ability to operate across Product, Engineering, Data, Programme and business stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, organisational change and evolving priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience leading teams through significant platform or technology transformation
• Experience with Salesforce, marketing technology, customer data platforms or enterprise SaaS ecosystems

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.