Data Governance Technical Specialist (DevOps)

<h3>Company & Department Context</h3> <p>The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of one million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.</p> <p>We have offices in more than 35 cities, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Sofia, San Francisco and Tokyo. Join us and find an inclusive and fast-paced environment with unique opportunities to support every step of your career.</p> <p>Learn more about the FT, including announcements and career opportunities, at <a href="http://aboutus.ft.com">aboutus.ft.com</a>.</p> <h3>Role overview </h3> <p>This role sits in the Data & AI Governance function and focuses on platform engineering and infrastructure ownership to ensure the reliable and scalable operation, integration, and development of Data & AI Governance platforms across the FT.</p> <p>The role is responsible primarily for designing, integrating, optimising, and maintaining cloud-native platform infrastructure and services enabling metadata management, data lineage, data quality, data access, data retention, data compliance and data sharing in a dynamic, cloud-native data platform. </p> <p>The successful candidate is expected to take technical ownership of the key data governance systems, namely <em>SageMaker Unified Studio </em>(SMUS) and the infrastructure-as-code solution <em>Data Innovation Workbench</em> (DIW), ensuring their reliability, security, scalability, and effective integration within the broader FT data platform. </p> <p>The role contributes to the FT’s broader Data & AI Governance strategy by ensuring that governance technology is robust, well-integrated and capable of scaling with increasing demand or in response to evolving industry best practices. </p> <p>The role will report directly into the Data Governance team but requires close collaboration with the FT’s DevOps, Data Engineering, BI, Data Science and Cyber Security functions.</p> <h3>Context & Drivers for the Role</h3> <p>Data & AI Governance capabilities at the FT are increasingly dependent on well-integrated, cloud-native tools. Currently, the technical ownership of these tools is distributed across multiple teams. </p> <p>As adoption grows, and the governance tools ecosystem expands, there is a need for clear technical ownership centralised in the Data Governance team to enforce consistent infrastructure standards and scalable integration patterns. </p> <h3>Responsi