Engineering Manager, Marketing & Commercial Data Platform

Financial Times; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Medical cover

Inclusive parental leave packages

Subsidised gym memberships

Opportunities to give back to the team

Job summary

Financial Times seeks an Engineering Manager for the Commercial Technology domain, leading the Marketing & Commercial Data capability. You will shape delivery, balance technical health with business priorities, and coach a team through a major platform transformation.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Programme and Business stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable systems and a strong engineering culture, while supporting career development and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams responsible for business-critical products and platforms.
• Ability to balance delivery with operational health and long-term platform evolution.
• Strong coaching, feedback and people-development skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management across Product, Programme and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering delivery across Marketing & Commercial Data capability, ensuring outcomes are delivered sustainably.
• Shape priorities, roadmaps and achievable delivery plans with Product and Programme.
• Allocate engineering capacity and balance delivery with operational needs and technical improvements.
• Identify risks, dependencies and capability gaps; escalate where necessary.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and organisational change within the capability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Technical decision-making

Stakeholder management

Tools

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Data 360

Sales Cloud

Bloomreach

Marketo

Job description

Financial Times seeks an Engineering Manager for the Commercial Technology domain, leading the Marketing & Commercial Data capability. You will shape delivery, balance technical health with business priorities, and coach a team through a major platform transformation.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Programme and Business stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable systems and a strong engineering culture, while supporting career development and operational readiness.