Senior Collaboration Tooling Engineer with AI Focus

Financial Times

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 135,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

The Financial Times is seeking a senior engineer to lead the design and support of collaboration tooling across Technology. You will guide engineers, drive AI-enabled features, and collaborate with vendors and stakeholders to deliver robust tools used by FT staff.

You will champion inclusive engineering, set standards, and help roadmaps for tools such as ChatGPT, Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Make, MASV, Monday.com, Zapier, LucidChart and LucidSpark.

Qualifications

Experience leading design and architectural decisions for collaboration tooling.
Strong understanding of AI capabilities within enterprise tools.
Ability to engage with vendors and internal customers to align roadmaps.
Proven track record in cross-functional collaboration across technology teams.

Responsibilities

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.