Technical Lead, Marketing & Commercial Data (Hybrid)

Financial Times; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Competitive benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

The Financial Times is seeking a Technical Lead within Commercial Technology to provide technical leadership for the Marketing & Commercial Data capability. You will own architecture, security, and delivery, guiding significant decisions and ensuring sustainable platform evolution.

Collaborating with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders, you will mentor engineers, shape strategy, and drive modernization towards Salesforce-based capabilities while maintaining operational continuity.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams or large capability programs.
• Strong architectural and engineering judgement.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Proven track record delivering secure, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership while enabling engineers to own decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Define and evolve architecture and engineering standards.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical plans.
• Ensure operational readiness and incident response for Marketing & Commercial Data capabilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software engineering

Architectural design

Security

Observability

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next

Salesforce Data 360

Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud

Bloomreach

Marketo

JavaScript/TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

The Financial Times is seeking a Technical Lead within Commercial Technology to provide technical leadership for the Marketing & Commercial Data capability. You will own architecture, security, and delivery, guiding significant decisions and ensuring sustainable platform evolution.

Collaborating with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders, you will mentor engineers, shape strategy, and drive modernization towards Salesforce-based capabilities while maintaining operational continuity.