Senior Analytics Engineer - Operations

<h3>Company & Department Context</h3> <p>The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. We are recognised globally for our authority, integrity and accuracy. We provide a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to the growing audience of internationally minded business people.</p> <p>We think the Financial Times is a great place to work: we have a technical stack that is cutting edge - employing cloud-based architectures and using a wide range of open source and commercial technologies; our product development methodologies are very current - using a data driven approach, empowering everyone to understand and to delight our customers; our engineers choose the tools they need and are able to influence the development process. Importantly, we ensure staff also have the ability to achieve a good work life balance.</p> <p>As the digital business evolves and grows, there is ever more need to provide high quality and timely business intelligence and customer insight to inform and optimise all types of decisions. Those decisions range from day to day, those made via data products & models as well as insight for the bigger strategic and commercial questions. </p> <p>A greater understanding is required about the behaviour of our global digital audience to keep abreast of business strategy and leverage this knowledge to measure performance and evaluate the effectiveness of our digital developments and influence the customer’s digital experience. </p> <p> </p> <h3>Position Summary </h3> <p>We are seeking a proactive and technically strong Senior Analytics Engineer to establish and evolve operational practices that improve the reliability, scalability, observability and maintainability of the FT’s data and analytics ecosystem.</p> <p>Initially embedded within the BI Engineering team, the role will focus on improving how data products and pipelines are operated, monitored, supported and continuously improved across their lifecycle. The successful candidate will help create repeatable operational standards, tooling and automation that reduce operational overhead, improve data reliability and enable teams to manage data products more effectively at scale.</p> <p>Working closely with BI Engineering, Data Engineering, Data architecture, Reporting & Analytics and platform teams, the role will identify operational inefficiencies, reliability risks and scaling challenges across the data estate, then design practical technical solutions to address them. The focus of the role is operational enablement and engineering excellence rather than governance ownership.</p> <p>Reporting to the Head of BI Engineering, you will help drive operational maturity across the FT’s data landscape through improved