Principal Technical Architect — Hybrid Enterprise Architecture

Financial Times; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Medical cover

Parental leave

Hybrid working model

Job summary

The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Technical Architect for Internal Products to provide architectural leadership across enterprise platforms and internally developed applications.

You will define principles, roadmaps, and standards, simplify the technology landscape, and lead two senior technical leaders while collaborating with product and security teams to ensure delivery and long‑term sustainability.

Qualifications

• Senior technical or enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience across multiple applications and platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern application architecture and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience defining APIs and integration patterns.
• Ability to lead and mentor senior engineers and architects.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority on architecture across Internal Products, providing direction across enterprise platforms and programs.
• Define architectural principles, standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Develop target architectures and roadmaps to simplify and sustain the technology landscape.
• Provide architectural leadership for major transformation programmes, including the Commercial Technology Programme.
• Manage two senior technical leaders and mentor engineers to build capability and alignment.
• Lead architecture governance, reviews and collaboration with Product, Security and Engineering teams.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Technical strategy

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

Salesforce

Oracle Fusion

Workday

Job description

The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Technical Architect for Internal Products to provide architectural leadership across enterprise platforms and internally developed applications.

You will define principles, roadmaps, and standards, simplify the technology landscape, and lead two senior technical leaders while collaborating with product and security teams to ensure delivery and long‑term sustainability.