Engineering Lead – ERP Services

About the role

The Financial Times' ERP Services team, within Corporate Technology, owns the engineering, operation and continuous evolution of its ERP technology estate, including Oracle Fusion and the integrations and data flows that connect it to the wider FT technology landscape. As Engineering Lead, you will strengthen the engineering leadership and platform expertise of the team, establish clear platform and team ownership and report to the Principal Engineer – Corporate Technology.

Key responsibilities

• Own the engineering, operation and evolution of the ERP technology capability, providing technical direction and accountability for the platforms and services.
• Lead and develop the ERP engineering team, set expectations, coach and build a culture of ownership and collaboration.
• Translate business priorities with Product and Finance into engineering plans, and balance new capabilities with platform health, technical debt and operational investment.
• Ensure platforms are secure, resilient, scalable and maintainable, and manage technical debt, lifecycle risks and dependencies.
• Work with the Principal Engineer and Architecture on long-term platform direction, and with Integration & Engineering Services on integrations, APIs and data flows.
• Manage the technical relationship with ERP vendors and partners, keeping internal engineering ownership and building internal knowledge.
• Set up observability, incident, problem, change and operational readiness practices, and maintain resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity.

Required profile

• Experienced engineering leader with a track record of leading teams behind business-critical technology.
• Strong knowledge of ERP or similar complex enterprise platforms, with people and technical leadership.
• Comfortable working with Finance and other business stakeholders and challenging vendor approaches.
• Interest in building team capability and reducing reliance on individual specialists or external partners.

Required skills

• Strong experience with ERP platforms or complex enterprise SaaS ecosystems; Oracle Fusion is highly advantageous.
• Enterprise platform engineering, including integrations, APIs, data flows and system dependencies.
• Full lifecycle ownership of technology, from delivery to production operation.
• Reliability, security, observability, operational risk and technology lifecycle management.
• Experience with vendors, implementation partners and managed service providers.

What we offer

• Benefits vary by location, including annual leave, medical cover, parental leave and subsidised gym memberships.
• A 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite), with flexibility on working patterns where possible.