Product Engineering Lead

Financial Conduct Authority; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking a Lead Product Engineer to oversee the output of the Data Collections Product Group. In this dynamic role, you will lead product development, engage with cross-functional teams and innovate engineering practices to enhance service delivery.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

Private healthcare with Bupa

Non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary

Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

Income protection

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end development of commercial software solutions.
• Experience managing engineering teams and establishing development best practices.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to innovate within a product stack.

Responsibilities

• Ensure development teams meet quality, performance and delivery standards.
• Drive engineering innovation and refine ways of working.
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and ensure alignment with architecture standards.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Commercial awareness

Problem-solving

Job description

Lead Product Engineer

Division – Data, Technology & Innovation

Department - Digital Systems

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £59,100 to £85,516 and London from £64,900 to £93,900 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA .

What will you be doing?

The hands-on Product Engineering Lead role is responsible for the overall development output for the Data Collections Product Group; for enforcing and refining the Product Group’s Standards and Guidelines across the product development teams; for providing thought leadership, coaching to development teams in best engineering practices; and for keeping engineering documentation up to date.

You will work closely with FCA Product Owners, Architects, Service Managers, and third-party suppliers who provide development resources to the FCA.

• Ensure development teams meet quality, performance and delivery standards

• Review designs, code and configuration changes from outsourced teams and contributors

• Provide technical leadership, hands-on guidance, design feedback and mentoring

• Develop technology and service designs aligned with organisational risk appetite

• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and ensure alignment with architecture standards

• Drive engineering innovation, refine ways of working and enhance development team effectiveness

What will you get from the role?

• Opportunity to develop expertise and grow in a technology-focused career path

• Supportive and collaborative team culture, fostering strong connections across the organisation

• Purpose-driven environment with a public service mindset and shared common goals

• Meaningful work that enables positive impact within the organisation and beyond

• Commitment to work-life balance, focusing on efficiency and smart working over long hours

• Inclusive, empowering workplace that values servant leadership and embraces diversity

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. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Experience leading end-to-end development of commercial software solutions

• Experience managing and mentoring engineering teams, establishing development best practices

• Experience of designing and deploying scalable cloud infrastructure

Essential

• Strong commercial awareness, assessing supplier proposals and driving cost-effective solutions

• Ability to innovate within a product stack while ensuring compliance with Enterprise Architecture standards

• Broad knowledge of technology trends, industry standards and best practices in IT product development

• Experience creating technical documentation, architecture diagrams and engineering process improvements

• Proven track record of leading complex feature development and contributing to team performance enhancements

Desirable

• Experience of front-end development (Angular)

• Proficiency in modelling methodologies such as UML and Archimate for structured system design

• Experience of Infrastructure as Code technologies (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, or System Initiative)

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. 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.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

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 (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 also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

Follow this link to see what life is like at the FCA - Life at the FCA

Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory

• Advert Closing Date: Midnight 23 June (please submit your application by 11:59 on 22 June)

• CV Review/Shortlist: w/c 23 June

• First Round Case Study Assessment: w/c 30 June

• Competency Based Interview: w/c 14 July

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: [e-mail]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.