Data Integration Lead Developer

Financial Services Compensation Scheme; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Life & critical illness protection

Private medical insurance

EAP & Virtual GP

26 days annual leave + bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

FSCS is seeking a hands-on leader to design, deliver and modernise our integration and workflow solutions, while preserving reliability of the existing SSIS estate. You will guide architecture decisions, balance day-to-day operational support with longer-term modernisation, and collaborate with product, operations, security and external partners to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

This role balances keeping services safe today with a clear route away from legacy technologies through

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, developing and supporting business-critical integration and workflow solutions in complex environments.
• Strong track record leading technical design and delivery for critical production services.
• Excellent stakeholder management across blended onshore and offshore teams, suppliers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, delivery and ongoing modernisation of integration and workflow solutions.
• Oversee development, support and continuous improvement of business-critical integration services.
• Drive engineering standards and champion modern integration approaches, including API-led, event-driven and cloud-native solutions.
• Collaborate with blended onshore and offshore teams, suppliers and partners across technology, operations and business stakeholders.
• Balance day-to-day operational support with longer-term modernisation and service improvement.

Skills

Integration leadership

Technical leadership

API-led integration

Event-driven architecture

Cloud-native solutions

Stakeholder management

Offshore collaboration

Tools

SSIS

Job description

Join FSCS at a time of significant change as we modernise our integration and workflow landscape.

This role is responsible for leading the design, development, support and progressive modernisation of integration and workflow solutions, maintaining the reliability of our existing SSIS estate while helping to reduce reliance on legacy technologies through pragmatic use of modern, cloud-based and event-driven integration patterns.

You’ll provide hands‑on technical leadership across the full delivery lifecycle, from discovery and design through build, testing, release and operational support. Working closely with Product, Operations, Architecture, Security and other stakeholders, you’ll help shape integration solutions that meet business and operational needs while supporting both business‑as‑usual improvements and wider transformation activity.

A key challenge of the role is balancing the need to keep critical services safe, reliable and supportable today while creating a clear route away from legacy SSIS‑based integrations.

Key Responsibilities Include

Integration Leadership & Modernisation

Lead the design, delivery and ongoing modernisation of integration and workflow solutions, balancing the support of today’s services with the transition away from legacy SSIS‑based integrations.

Solution Delivery & Service Reliability

Oversee the development, support and continuous improvement of business‑critical integration services, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable and operationally resilient.

Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

Drive engineering standards and champion modern integration approaches, including API‑led, event‑driven and cloud‑native solutions, while leveraging AI‑assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery quality.

Stakeholder & Team Collaboration

Provide technical leadership across blended onshore and offshore teams, suppliers and partners, building strong relationships and ensuring effective collaboration across technology, operations and business stakeholders.

About You

• Significant experience designing, developing and supporting business‑critical integration and workflow solutions in complex environments.
• A strong track record of leading technical design and delivery, supporting critical production services, and balancing day‑to‑day operational support with longer‑term modernisation and service improvement.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across blended onshore and offshore teams, suppliers and partners.

Successful candidates will also be able demonstrate behaviours aligned to FSCS’s ways of working, taking accountability, showing courage, working stronger together, embracing continuous learning and remaining focused on delivering results.

Why Join Us?

Join an organisation with a clear purpose - to support financial stability, giving customers confidence, continuity and compensation when financial services fail.

Here, you’ll take real accountability for decisions that make a difference, working with courage and honesty to challenge and improve outcomes. You’ll collaborate with talented colleagues to deliver the right solutions at the right time, continually learning as you go.

Together, we stay focused on what success looks like, being accessible, efficient and trusted, while delivering meaningful results that strengthen the UK financial system.

Our Offer

We have invested greatly in a flexible people offer that we’re proud of, that our employees love and that supports and promotes diversity, inclusion, and overall wellbeing.

Our hybrid policy supports a healthy work life balance allowing up to 60% work from home and 40% working from our brand new office space between Aldgate and Liverpool Street.

Key Benefits Include

• Employer pension contributions from 9% - 15% dependant on your contributions and length of service
• Life assurance, income and critical illness protection
• Private medical and dental insurance
• EAP and Virtual GP
• 26 days annual leave + bank holidays and the option to sell 5 or buy up to 9 additional days per annum to suit your lifestyle
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave - 6 months full pay
• Additional discounts and options to earn rewards to spend at your choice of retailer.

For over 20 years, FSCS has been the UK’s financial safety net, protecting customers when authorised financial firms fail and helping them get back on track.

We are an independent, non‑profit organisation set up by government, offering a free service where customers keep every penny of the compensation they are owed when they claim directly with us. FSCS is funded by the financial services industry through an annual levy paid by firms authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Through the 2008 banking crisis to the COVID‑19 pandemic, FSCS has provided reassurance during the most challenging times, giving people confidence their money is safe. By maintaining trust in financial services, we help support financial stability and contribute to economic growth. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we’ve built a culture of empathy, resilience, and continuous improvement — always striving to do better and move faster in a complex financial landscape.

Join us and make a real difference.