Posted:
10/8/2024, 12:58:50 AM
Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ Scotland, United Kingdom ⋅ Leeds, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom ⋅ City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
Data & Analytics
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Product Architect/Lead Engineer
Salary: London ranging from - £73,700 to £119,800 and National - £67,100 to £109,000
Are you looking to work in key strategic initiatives supporting FCA’s Data Science and AI Strategy?
The team/department
The Data & Analytics Product Group (DAPG) sits within the Regulatory Systems Department of the Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI) Division. The DAPG supports the delivery of the FCA’s Digital and Data Strategies, optimising FCA’s performance as a digitally led regulator. The Analyse & Insight (A&I) product team (within DAPG) specifically supports FCA’s Data Science and Advanced Analytics functions and the FCA’s Data Science strategy.
The Product Architect & Lead Engineer role sits within A&I team and is responsible for the overall architectural design and implementation of digital solutions, including service, for the A&I products. The role will ensure quality assurance of architectural decisions, technical designs and other architectural deliverables and artefacts to ensure alignment to enterprise platform and integration strategies, standards and patterns. We are looking for an experienced senior level product architect, with hands-on experience in problem solving and software delivery. Client facing, strong communication and presentation skills, ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a challenging environment.
What you will be doing (the role)
Provide steer, guidance, and decision in architectural designs Prepare design papers and present at relevant design authorities Undertake lead engineering build tasks in the development of technology solutions Liaise with dependent stakeholder Product Groups Technology stakeholder and relationship management Act as Technical lead for other engineers in the team
What you will get from the role?
Stimulating, innovative and experimental work to solve the biggest challenges facing financial regulation and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the organisation
Exposure to new ideas, opportunity to increase your knowledge and understanding of new technologies in Financial Regulation
Exposure to senior industry leaders and an opportunity to work with international regulators
Working in key strategic initiatives supporting FCA’s Data Science and AI Strategy
Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.
Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:
28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
Private healthcare with Bupa
A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
Income protection
We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.
The skills and experience you will have
Minimum
We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.
Experience with Amazon Web Services, and AI/Data Science related components e.g. AWS Sagemaker, AWS Cognitive Services
Exposure to Cloud Technologies
Experience of Microservices architecture design and implementation
Essential
Experience with Jenkins, Git, Chef & Linux
Hands on development background and ready to delivery as required
Security Cleared or eligible for Security Clearance
Strong stakeholder management
Designing resilient and scalable systems
Automated development using declarative CI/CD pipelines
Secure by design architecture
Approach and implementation in Data Science and AI industry trends
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here
The FCA's Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Technical Specialist role.
Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.
Multi-location
As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.
Useful information
Applications for this role close at 23:59 on the 22nd October 2024
This role is graded as Technical Specialist - Regulatory
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood, [email protected]
For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis, [email protected]
What to expect from our interview process
Preliminary Telephone assessment
Initial interview (competency based, organisational fit),
Second interview with other team members, manager (including technical assessment and case study)
Application support
We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.
If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.
Security Clearance/Vetting
The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.
Website: https://fca.org.uk/
Headquarter Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Employee Count: 1001-5000
Year Founded: 2013
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Financial Services