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    Technical Architect - London, United Kingdom - Financial Times

    Financial Times
    Financial Times London, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Here at the Financial Times, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning.

    500+-people strong, our Product & Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day.

    Our plans for growth rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone's welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team.

    And with entrepreneurial spirit, intelligence and opportunity at every turn, there's no limit to where your FT career will take you.

    To date, software architecture is designed and defined by engineers within each product or platform team, and is generally a collaborative effort.

    Growing complexity in our business and constraints introduced by pressure on the publishing and news industries require us to be robust in choosing technologies, introducing standards, being consistent, and reusing components and services wherever possible.

    How the content model, and the services surrounding it, is designed both for easy retrieval and presentation, and also for ML processing.

    Optimising architectures and infrastructure to enhance and improve integrations between SaaS and in-house software solutions (specifically marketing, customer relationship management, and similar solutions).

    You will work closely with our Technical Directors, their engineering teams and your counterpart Data Architect.

    This position does not have any line management responsibilities and there are no immediate plans to expand the architecture team.

    It is a 'Principal' role in the sense that you will be leading our technical architecture in an individual contributor capacity.

    Be a technical authority and ensure excellence in system architecture across the FT's software platforms and product portfolio.

    Identify strategic requirements across the portfolio, advising the CTO, Technical Directors, and senior engineers on technical roadmaps and migration plans.

    Assist development teams with the interpretation of platform, product and project requirements and translate these into solutions

    Ensure seamless integrations of domain models and components to facilitate efficient data and business flows across groups and existing architectures.

    Ensure that the infrastructure is fit for purpose to support the portfolio's offering with appropriate resilience, performance and flexibility.

    Contribute to the evolution of the FT's Technical Strategy, including setting patterns, standards, policies, and roadmaps, and incorporating relevant industry trends and technical developments.

    Demonstrable experience in a senior technical role, with responsibility for defining and developing high-volume, multi-tiered, horizontally scalable online software architectures.

    Technical knowledge and demonstrable experience of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Domain Driven Design and Service Oriented Architectures, as well as experience conducting code and system reviews.

    Demonstrable experience translating business and feature requirements into technical specifications, ideally including content management, online media production, publishing workflow tools and services, user personalisation services, and marketing / sales technology solutions.

    A grasp of existing and emerging technologies and their potential to enhance the performance and shape of technical architectures and systems.

    Experience building effective relationships with a wide range of peers and colleagues, including working across organisational boundaries and leading capable and experienced developers without having direct management responsibility, and often in situations where divergent views are held.

    A background in software engineering, software design, content or data architecture, or database design and architecture.
    Experience breaking down large technical projects into smaller iterations to aid delivery and allow demonstration of incremental value.

    In-depth knowledge of data storage solutions ranging from data lakes, data warehouses, relational and nonrelational databases, columnar and graph databases.

    generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities.

    Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace

    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.

    com and a member of our team will be happy to help.

    Have you previously taken part in an FT Early careers programme? FT Talent Challenge, FT News School, work experience etc.


    Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status in the country for which this role is based?

    As part of the FT's commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, in this section we ask for information to help us measure the effectiveness of our equal opportunity policies.

    Your information will be stored separately to your application on our recruitment system, with safeguards in place to ensure that your data is kept secure and treated confidentially.

    We may use the data in an anonymised form for reporting purposes or as required to comply with statutory reporting requirements, depending on your location.

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