Senior IT Engineer

Who you are

• You are enthusiastic about contributing to all areas of the team's responsibilities. Our ideal candidate will bring a unique point of view to the work that we do. We firmly believe that diverse perspectives help us create great tools and enhance the team
• Ability to raise the skills and performance of those around you
• Keen to take action whilst being pragmatic
• Passion for realistic, high-quality engineering excellence
• Attention to detail and common sense
• Being collaborative and supportive
• Enjoy learning and teaching — whether that be pair programming, lightning talks, good documentation, leading workshops or mentoring other members of the team
• A love of solving problems with technology

What the job involves

• Reporting into the Head of Collaboration Tooling in the Infrastructure & Operations group in Technology, this role is for a senior engineer to help implement and support the collaboration tools and services used by the staff of the Financial Times
• Infrastructure & Operations has around 90 people working in multiple teams that have diverse remits, including: cloud services, code management, the management and provision of end-user devices, collaboration tools, networking, a global service desk, identity and access management, and technical operations support
• We value transparency, accountability, shared responsibility and teamwork
• The team works closely together with a very supportive, knowledge-sharing ethos
• We ensure FT Staff have the tools they need to run a business providing world-class journalism to our customers
• We support informal knowledge sharing alongside more formal training opportunities
• Lead technical design and architectural decisions for collaboration tooling platforms, providing guidance and direction for engineers across the team
• Act as a subject matter expert for AI capabilities within collaboration tooling, helping teams understand, adopt and safely leverage AI-powered features and services
• Engage with other disciplines, groups and teams across FT Technology and beyond, making sure we are all working together effectively, and evangelising the tools and solutions that the team own and manage
• Contribute to the product and renewal roadmaps for the tools the team owns
• Understand the capabilities our collaboration tools provide, and stay abreast of relevant developments in the marketplace
• Help manage and select suppliers of key collaboration tools or technologies
• Liaise with vendors and internal customers of collaboration tools
• Help set and reinforce our inclusive, respectful, multidisciplinary, and open culture
• Help to improve the technology, processes and skills of the team
• Establish and promote engineering standards, operational practices and architectural principles for collaboration tooling and associated integrations
• Ability to make and communicate sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations
• Comfortable acting as a technical escalation point for complex problems
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, particularly AI and automation, and an ability to translate them into practical business value

Benefits

• A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
• Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
• Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
• Pension contribution
• Local health coverage plans
• Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
• Financial wellbeing products and services