Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

Tailor your resume to this Engineering Manager - People & Procurement role.

Rezi rewrites your resume against Financial Times's job description. Free.

Resume score gauge reading 58 out of 100

Don't guess if your resume is good enough.

See how it scores against the Engineering Manager - People & Procurement posting at Financial Times — free, in seconds.

About the Role

The People & Procurement team within Corporate Technology owns the engineering capabilities supporting workforce management, employee experience, supplier management, and procurement. As Engineering Manager, you will own the engineering, operation, and continuous evolution of these technology capabilities, leading the engineering team with a focus on people leadership and technical direction.

Responsibilities

Own the engineering, operation and continuous evolution of the technology capabilities supporting People and Procurement, providing clear technical direction across enterprise SaaS platforms, integrations and supporting services.
Lead, support and develop engineers, setting clear expectations and providing coaching, feedback and career development.
Establish clear technical ownership across platforms, integrations and engineering capabilities, building knowledge across the team and reducing key-person dependencies.
Ensure platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, maintainable and appropriately supported, with engineering decisions considering reliability, operability, cost and long-term sustainability.
Maintain visibility of platform health, technical debt, lifecycle risks and significant dependencies, working with the Principal Engineer and Architecture on material technical decisions.
Work with Product to translate business priorities and technology strategy into clear engineering plans, balancing business change, platform improvement, operational work and technical debt.
Own engineering planning and resource allocation, identifying dependencies, risks and constraints early and providing clear visibility of progress and trade-offs.
Identify opportunities to simplify, modernise and improve the People & Procurement technology estate, challenging unnecessary customisation and complexity where more sustainable approaches are available.
Ensure platform upgrades, new capabilities and significant changes are introduced safely and sustainably, taking account of vendor roadmaps and longer-term lifecycle considerations.
Ensure the team understands and owns the integrations and data flows connecting People & Procurement platforms with the wider FT technology estate.
Own operational performance and establish effective approaches to observability, incident and problem management, change management, resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity.
Ensure relevant security, privacy, data governance, compliance and technology standards are met, with material risks understood and appropriately managed.
Manage technical relationships with platform vendors, implementation partners and specialist service providers while maintaining clear internal engineering ownership and capability.
Build strong relationships with Product and stakeholders across People and Procurement, translating priorities into clear engineering implications, options and trade-offs.
Partner with Architecture, Security, Integration & Engineering Services and other Corporate Technology teams on decisions and initiatives that cross platform or organisational boundaries.

Requirements

Significant experience leading engineering teams responsible for complex, business-critical technology.
Strong experience with enterprise SaaS platforms and their wider technology ecosystems.
Experience providing both people leadership and technical leadership, including developing engineering capability and strengthening technical ownership within teams.
Strong understanding of enterprise platform engineering, including integrations, APIs, data flows and system dependencies.
Experience owning technology across its lifecycle, from change and delivery through production operation and continuous improvement.
Strong understanding of reliability, security, privacy, observability, operational risk and technology lifecycle management.
Experience translating business priorities into engineering plans and balancing feature delivery with platform health and technical investment.
Experience leading technical decisions involving enterprise SaaS platforms, integrations and supporting services.
Experience working with vendors, implementation partners or managed service providers while maintaining internal technical ownership.
Experience identifying and addressing technical debt, platform lifecycle concerns and key-person dependencies.
Ability to communicate complex technical considerations and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience collaborating effectively with senior engineers, architects, Product Managers and other engineering leaders.

Skills

Enterprise SaaS platforms
Integrations
APIs
Data flows
System dependencies
Platform engineering
People leadership
Technical leadership
Reliability
Security
Privacy
Observability
Operational risk
Technology lifecycle management
Workday
HCM platforms
People platforms
Procurement platforms

Location

Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Generous annual leave
Medical cover
Inclusive parental leave packages
Subsidised gym memberships
Opportunities to give back to the community

About the Company

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.
At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded.
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 inspire you.
With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere.
Build a newsworthy career at the FT.

Equal Opportunity

We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued.
A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential.
We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.