{"id":1137266,"url":"https://alion.io/job/financial-times-senior-tax-platform-engineer-corporate-technology","title":"Senior Tax Platform Engineer – Corporate Technology","company":{"id":11348,"name":"Financial Times","domain":"ft.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/financial-times","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":94,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.25,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":52,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":94000,"max_usd":175000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":36},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T07:42:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T17:42:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Us\nThe 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.\nAt the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Together, we help audiences stay better informed and deepen their understanding of the world around them.\nOur Product & Tech teams drive us forward in an ever-evolving digital landscape, delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers daily. Our growth relies on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists.\nWith a supportive culture, entrepreneurial spirit and opportunities at every turn, there are no limits to where your FT career can take you.\nBuild a newsworthy career at the FT.\nOur commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion\nWe 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.\nAbout you\nYou are an experienced engineer with strong technical expertise in enterprise tax, compliance or closely related financial technology platforms.\nYou are comfortable taking technical ownership of specialist, business-critical technology: understanding how platforms work, how they integrate with the wider enterprise technology estate and how regulatory and operational requirements translate into sustainable technical solutions.\nYou enjoy getting into the detail of complex systems and solving problems that require both technical depth and an understanding of the business processes the technology supports. You can work directly with Tax, Finance and other business specialists, asking the right questions and translating their requirements into clear technical decisions and solutions.\nYou are also comfortable providing technical leadership without needing formal management responsibility. You can guide other engineers, challenge vendors and technology partners, improve engineering practices and build knowledge across a team rather than becoming the only person who understands a specialist platform.\nAbout the team\nCorporate Technology sits within Internal Products and owns the technology capabilities supporting some of the FT’s most important internal business functions, including People, Finance and Procurement.\nThe domain includes major enterprise platforms alongside specialist applications, integrations, data flows and internally developed capabilities supporting critical business processes across the organisation.\nTax and Compliance technology is a specialist part of this landscape. These platforms and capabilities support important regulatory and operational obligations and interact with the wider Finance and ERP technology estate.\nThe Senior Tax Platform Engineer will provide dedicated engineering expertise and technical leadership for this area, working with the Engineering Lead, Principal Engineer - Corporate Technology, other engineers and business specialists to strengthen our internal ownership and capability.\nWhat you’ll work on\nAs Senior Tax Platform Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the platforms and capabilities supporting Tax and Compliance across the FT.\nYou will develop a deep understanding of the technology, integrations, data flows and business processes within this area and become a key technical point of expertise for the engineering team.\nYou will work closely with Tax, Finance and Compliance stakeholders to understand regulatory and operational requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions, ensuring the platforms can evolve as requirements change.\nThis role is about more than supporting specialist applications. You will help establish stronger technical ownership of the Tax and Compliance technology estate, improve its reliability and maintainability, identify risks and opportunities for improvement, and ensure changes are engineered with the wider Corporate Technology landscape in mind.\nAn important part of the role will also be building capability around you. You will document systems and decisions, share knowledge with other engineers and help reduce dependency on business stakeholders, external partners or individual engineers for understanding how the technology works.\nYour responsibilities will include\nTax & Compliance Platform Engineering\nProviding technical leadership for the platforms and technology capabilities supporting Tax and Compliance.\nDeveloping and maintaining deep technical knowledge of the platforms, their configuration, integrations, data flows and dependencies.\nDesigning, implementing and supporting changes to specialist Tax and Compliance technology.\nEnsuring platforms remain secure, resilient, maintainable and appropriately supported.\nInvestigating complex technical and operational issues and driving them through to sustainable resolution.\nIdentifying technical debt, lifecycle concerns and platform risks and working with engineering leadership to address them.\nContributing directly to engineering work where specialist knowledge or technical complexity requires senior-level involvement.\nTechnical Leadership & Engineering Quality\nActing as a senior technical specialist within the Corporate Technology engineering team for Tax and Compliance technology.\nProviding technical direction and guidance to engineers working on changes affecting these platforms.\nReviewing technical designs and changes and helping teams make appropriate engineering decisions.\nEstablishing appropriate engineering practices, patterns and documentation for specialist platforms.\nWorking with the Principal Engineer, Engineering Leads and Architecture on decisions that have implications beyond the Tax and Compliance domain.\nEnsuring solutions consider security, resilience, observability, maintainability, supportability and long-term sustainability.\nChallenging approaches that introduce unnecessary complexity or operational risk.\nRegulatory & Business Requirements\nWorking closely with Tax, Finance and Compliance specialists to understand regulatory, operational and business requirements.\nTranslating those requirements into clear technical requirements, designs and platform changes.\nHelping engineering teams understand the business context and implications of changes to Tax and Compliance technology.\nEnsuring technology changes required by regulatory or compliance deadlines are understood, planned and delivered appropriately.\nIdentifying technical dependencies and risks early and communicating these clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.\nMaintaining a clear separation between business ownership of tax and regulatory policy and engineering ownership of the technology that implements those requirements.\nIntegration & Data\nUnderstanding and maintaining the integrations and data flows between Tax and Compliance platforms and the wider Finance and enterprise technology estate.\nWorking with integration, data and platform engineers to ensure interfaces have clear ownership and are designed and operated effectively.\nIdentifying opportunities to simplify integrations, reduce duplication and improve reliability.\nSupporting changes to upstream and downstream systems where they affect Tax and Compliance capabilities.\nEnsuring data movement and system interactions meet relevant security, control and operational requirements.\nPlatform Operations & Reliability\nSupporting the reliable operation of Tax and Compliance platforms and services.\nProviding senior technical expertise during complex incidents and problems.\nIdentifying recurring issues and addressing their underlying technical causes rather than relying on repeated operational workarounds.\nImproving monitoring, observability, documentation and operational readiness.\nSupporting appropriate approaches to change management, disaster recovery and business continuity.\nMaintaining visibility of platform health, risks and dependencies and escalating material concerns appropriately.\nVendors & Technology Partners\nWorking effectively with specialist platform vendors, implementation partners and support providers.\nProviding informed technical challenge to vendor recommendations and proposed solutions.\nEnsuring vendor-delivered changes meet FT engineering, security and operational expectations.\nBuilding sufficient internal expertise to ensure vendors supplement rather than replace FT's technical ownership of the platforms.\nSupporting technical evaluation of platform changes, upgrades and vendor roadmap decisions.\nKnowledge & Capability Development\nBuilding and maintaining high-quality technical documentation for Tax and Compliance platforms, integrations and operational processes.\nSharing specialist knowledge with engineers across Corporate Technology.\nMentoring engineers working with Tax and Compliance technology and helping them build confidence and capability in the area.\nReducing key-person dependencies by ensuring knowledge is accessible and understood beyond a single specialist.\nHelping establish sustainable long-term ownership of Tax and Compliance technology within Corporate Technology.\nTechnical experience we’re looking for\nSignificant engineering experience working with enterprise financial, tax, compliance, ERP or similarly complex business-critical platforms.\nStrong experience taking technical ownership of specialist enterprise applications or platform capabilities.\nExperience designing, implementing, integrating and supporting enterprise technology in production environments.\nGood understanding of enterprise integration approaches, APIs, data flows and system dependencies.\nExperience translating complex business, regulatory or operational requirements into technical solutions.\nExperience investigating and resolving complex problems across applications, integrations and data.\nStrong understanding of production engineering, including reliability, monitoring, security, change management and operational support.\nExperience working with enterprise SaaS products and their wider technology ecosystems.\nExperience working with third-party platform vendors, implementation partners or managed service providers.\nAbility to assess vendor solutions and recommendations critically rather than relying solely on external expertise.\nExperience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers or leading technical decisions without necessarily having formal people-management responsibility.\nAbility to communicate effectively with both engineers and specialist non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience building technical documentation and transferring specialist knowledge across engineering teams.\nExperience with Tax and Compliance technology would be highly advantageous.\nExperience with ERP platforms such as Oracle Fusion or similar enterprise Finance ecosystems would be advantageous.\nExperience working in environments with significant regulatory, financial or compliance requirements would be advantageous.\nCharacteristics we value\nStrong technical curiosity and a willingness to develop deep expertise in specialist technology.\nA strong sense of ownership and accountability.\nPragmatism and good judgement when balancing regulatory, business and engineering requirements.\nThe ability to work comfortably between detailed engineering problems and the wider technology landscape.\nConfidence challenging vendors, technical colleagues and stakeholders constructively.\nA collaborative approach to working with business domain specialists.\nA focus on solving underlying problems rather than repeatedly treating symptoms.\nAn instinct for documenting and sharing knowledge rather than becoming a single point of dependency.\nAn appreciation for reliability, simplicity and long-term technical 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