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Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. Over 500 people strong, our Product & Technology team keeps our tech secure and stable while delivering accelerated growth through cutting-edge information products. With well over a million subscribers achieved, we now have our sights set on doing our bit to contribute to the FT’s aim of a 3 million global paying audience. We know our plans rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone’s welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team.

 

The role

We are seeking a Senior 1 Engineer to join the Martech Team within the Internal Products (IP) group of the FT’s Product & Technology department.

The Martech team is currently working on a number of initiatives to further expand the set of tools and channels our Marketing stakeholders have at their disposal. Our vision is “To create a seamlessly integrated marketing technology ecosystem that boosts operational efficiency, enhances real-time customer engagement, and consistently delivers the best customer experience.”

As a Senior 1 Engineer in the Martech team, you, along with your peers, will be responsible for delivering innovative technical solutions that enhance and support the Martech team's vision and needs of the business and our stakeholders.

You will take a leading role in the delivery of initiatives, being actively involved in all phases of the software development lifecycle, while ensuring that our Martech and team remain healthy and well-supported.

 

The Internal Products group

IP’s mission is to enable our peers (in tech and beyond) to do their best work. We do this in a variety of ways: finding a team the right tool for the job, helping them automate the most tedious parts of their work so they can invest in the valuable tasks they truly care about, discovering new ways in which to bring value to the business, and more.

Most engineers rotate between several IP teams over the course of their first 12-18 months. Principal Engineers typically look after one or two of those teams. Senior engineers often lead them or projects within them.

Our engineering career progression framework is publicly available.

We are made up of the following feature teams in 2024:

Editorial Technology

Develop a set of modern applications for our Editorial staff to author, edit and publish thousands of news articles every week

CRM Technology

This Team looks after our Salesforce platform and the different applications used by our Sales teams.

Marketing Technology

Our team looks after the technical ecosystem that supports our Marketing teams, including our Marketing Automation platform that serves the roughly 8 million emails that are sent every week to our customers who subscribe to our content.

 

Key duties

  • Working closely with product owners, business analysts, and senior stakeholders to fully shape solutions from inception to deployment and beyond.
  • Supporting product, delivery and engineering leadership colleagues in providing technical leadership to the Martech Team.
  • Helping to promote and grow the team, their work and championing a diverse, inclusive and equal team culture.
  • Working within a multi-skilled agile delivery team to oversee the design and development of the Martech Estate with your colleagues.
  • Helping with technical decision-making to support the technology strategy.
  • Aiding and supporting the personal development of more junior team members.
  • Developing an in-depth understanding of the Martech Estate, its underlying data and data flows, to enable you to shape the best possible solutions required.
  • Ensuring that solutions delivered by the team are secure, reliable, responsive, and scalable.
  • Championing the architecture, tooling and release cycle/process used across the Martech Estate.

What we are looking for

The necessary skills and expertise for this role are:

  • Experience with our tech stack including Node.JS, Javascript, Restful APIs, and AWS. 
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into technical designs.
  • Skills in efficiently debugging and resolving complex bugs. This includes experience with incident management.
  • Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate technical concepts with stakeholders.
  • Shapes the technical direction for the wider group or tech department.
  • Communicates team/work’s status upwards to a Principal Engineer or Technical Director.
  • Strong sense of accountability for team delivery and shaping priorities.
  • Proven ability to contribute to an inclusive organisational culture.
  • Experience in mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers.

If you also have any experience with the preferred skills below that would be great. If not, do not worry, these are non-essential and we would still very much welcome an application from you.

  • Experience working with various Marketing related technologies. 
  • A track record in leading the delivery of well-engineered solutions using industry best practices such as TDD, CI/CD pipelines, peer review, and pair programming.
  • Experience in managing teams/projects, with an understanding of the importance of diversity and equality in a well-functioning team.
  • Experience working as part of an agile team, using methodologies like Scrum and Kanban with governance tools like Jira & Confluence.
  • Preferably will come from a background where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is part of the culture (DevOps)

 

Tom Parker is available for informal discussions about the role. Please ensure you inform your manager prior to submitting a formal application.

 

Benefits

Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include; generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities. Full details of our benefits can be found here.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace

The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We believe that a supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves at work and have the flexibility they need to meet their personal needs. 

Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please contact talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.

 

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