Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Financial Times (FT) is a globally respected news organisation known for its authority, integrity, and accuracy. At the FT, curiosity and ambitious thinking are encouraged, offering you the chance to reach millions and create impactful work in a collaborative and diverse environment. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Enterprise Architect will develop and sustain the long-term technology architecture strategy across the FT’s Technology organisation. This strategic role focuses on enterprise-level technology strategy, governance, portfolio oversight, and organisational alignment rather than individual system design or delivery.

You will deliver architectural direction that aligns technology investments, platforms, capabilities, and operating models with the FT’s long-term objectives. Partnering closely with Technology Directors, Product leaders, Principal Technical Architects, and Data teams, you will connect technology strategy with business priorities while balancing innovation, resilience, operational efficiency, and maintainability.

The FT’s technology landscape spans editorial, subscription, commercial, data, and enterprise platforms. You will maintain a strategic view across this diverse estate, identifying opportunities to simplify, modernise, and improve alignment across teams and platforms. As a trusted consultant to the CTO and Technology Senior Leadership Team, you will help shape the future direction of technology at the FT, fostering a culture of simplicity, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Experience
- Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Chief Architecture, or a comparable senior architecture role within a complex digital organisation.
- Proven track record of developing enterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
- Experience influencing technology decisions across multiple teams, products, domains, and collaborators without direct authority.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, SaaS ecosystems, enterprise integration patterns, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience managing complex technology portfolios balancing strategic objectives with delivery and operational realities.
- Strong communication skills, able to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior leaders.
- Critical thinking combined with pragmatic delivery and operational focus.
- Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across organisational and functional boundaries.

About you
- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision and practical delivery needs.
- Collaborative and transparent, fostering continuous improvement.
- Comfortable working in a diverse, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders.
- Advocate for simplicity and operational efficiency in technology solutions.

Qualifications
- Relevant qualifications or certifications in Enterprise Architecture or related fields are desirable but not mandatory.
- Experience supporting Product & Technology operating models and delivering architectural direction through significant organisational or platform change is advantageous.