The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate Data Engineer to work in our Market Analysis & Risk Team. The team is part of the Supervision, Policy, and Competition (SPC) division where our directorates combine both our supervisory and policy-making work across sell-side, infrastructure, and exchanges.

The team’s role is to provide sophisticated insights to deliver data-informed policymaking and supervision, utilising a wide range of state-of-the-art cloud-based tools. In alignment with our digital transformation, we use regulatory and markets data to better supervise the firms we regulate.

What will you be doing?

You will design and build data pipelines handling millions of records daily to produce model-ready inputs for risk and market analysis. As part of this, you will be using large-scale proprietary datasets as well as commercial data (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.).

Your work will help power interactive web applications and dashboards that provide system-wide views of trading and positioning across equities, fixed income, commodities, and FX, leveraging unique regulatory data.

What will you get from the role?

• You will be working as part of a team at the very heart of everything wholesale financial markets at the FCA
• You will work closely with fellow data specialists and analysts, delivering insights in collaboration with stakeholders across the directorates
• You will work with unique regulatory markets data and play a key role in shaping how data are harnessed to supervise firms and markets
• You will gain exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products, while working on diverse and intellectually stimulating issues that span both policy and supervision

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process.

Minimum

• Prior experience in data engineering, with proven experience of designing efficient SQL (Redshift) and Python code for pipeline development
• Prior experience in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining scalable systems
• Prior experience and a strong familiarity with data analytics tools and libraries

Essential

• Understanding of and interest in financial markets
• Experience working with markets data
• Experience in applying machine learning approaches
• Experience with data visualisation tools (Tableau, Power BI etc.)
• Experience in working collaboratively with stakeholders

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences.

Benefits Of Working At The FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection