About us

The Financial Times ranks among the world’s top news organisations. It is known globally for its authority, integrity, and accuracy. Its mission is to provide quality information and services worldwide.

At the FT, curiosity flourishes and ambitious thinking is encouraged. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world.

In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing.

Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and motivate you. With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and build a career that can take you anywhere.

Develop a newsworthy career at the FT.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We believe in the strength of diverse viewpoints and want all voices in our organisation to be acknowledged, respected, and valued. A supportive environment is one where employees feel comfortable being authentic and working to their fullest potential. We are devoted to removing barriers for all, focusing particularly on those experienced by underrepresented groups.

The Role

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Enterprise Architect will develop and sustain the long-term technology architecture strategy throughout the FT’s Technology organisation.

You will deliver enterprise-wide architectural direction, supporting the alignment of our technology investments, platforms, capabilities, and operating models to evolve consistently and sustainably. 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 long-term maintainability.

The FT has a diverse technology landscape spanning editorial, subscription, commercial, data and enterprise platforms. You will maintain a strategic view across this estate, finding opportunities to simplify and modernise our technology and improve alignment across teams, domains and platforms.

This is a strategic role at the enterprise level rather than a solution or technical architecture position. It centers on technology strategy, governance, portfolio oversight, and organisational alignment, rather than the design and delivery of individual systems or programmes.

As a reliable consultant to the CTO and Technology Senior Leadership Team, you will help shape the future direction of technology at the FT.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the enterprise technology strategy, target-state architecture and associated roadmaps, ensuring technology investments, platforms and capabilities support the FT’s long-term objectives.
Maintain a company-wide perspective on technology platforms, products, services, and capabilities, evaluating major initiatives and investments in relation to enterprise architecture principles and strategic goals.
Find opportunities to simplify, modernise and rationalise the technology estate, reducing duplication, technical debt, operational complexity and unnecessary cost.
Define and uphold enterprise architecture principles, standards, and governance processes, chairing architecture review forums and guiding strategic technology decision-making.
Work alongside Technology and Product leaders to transform business priorities into technology capability roadmaps, aiding the continuous advancement of the Product & Technology operating model and technology investment priorities.
Offer architectural direction for key organisational, platform, and technology transformation projects.
Provide strategic oversight of technology lifecycles, platform strategy, build-versus-buy decisions and major technology suppliers, ensuring clear approaches to adoption, modernisation and retirement.
Ensure technology risks, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs are acknowledged and suitably addressed within the technology portfolio.