Senior Data Engineer

Financial Conduct Authority; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

The Financial Conduct Authority seeks a Senior Data Engineer to enhance its data architecture and ensure high performance and reliability of data flows. This role offers an opportunity to impact financial regulations positively in a collaborative and purpose-driven environment, emphasizing continuous improvement and a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Hybrid working (up to 60% of the time at home)

Private healthcare with Bupa

Non-contributory pension of at least 8%

Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering and modelling.
• Strong commercial awareness for assessing technical proposals.
• Expertise in designing data models for performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize data structures and flows.
• Collaborate with teams on data model consistency.
• Establish best practices for data quality and governance.

Skills

Data engineering

API design

Data modelling

Tools

Cloud data platforms

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

Division – Data, Technology & Innovation

Department - Digital Systems

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £75,900 and London from £57,000 to £83,450 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?

You will design and optimise data structures for products, refine data flows, and ensure outsourced teams follow data models and best practices. You'll collaborate closely with FCA Product Owners, Architects, and Data Engineers in other teams, along with Service Managers and third-party suppliers supporting development.

• Define and maintain logical and physical data models across products, ensuring consistency and alignment with evolving product capabilities

• Streamline end-to-end data flows, optimising data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption for seamless operations

• Collaborate with development teams to implement scalable and high-performance data integration patterns across APIs and services

• Establish and uphold best practices for data quality, lineage, metadata and governance to drive accuracy and compliance

• Lead the design and maintenance of source-of-truth datasets, enabling cross-product analytics and data-driven decision-making for stakeholders

• Champion the adoption of cutting-edge data tooling, driving improvements in data observability, reliability and efficiency

What will you get from the role?

• Gain valuable experience and grow in a technology-focused career path within a supportive and collaborative team

• Work in a purpose-driven organisation with a strong public service ethos and shared common goals

• Make a meaningful impact while contributing to initiatives that drive positive change

• Enjoy a healthy work-life balance, with a focus on working smart rather than long hours

• Be empowered to take ownership of your work in an environment that values autonomy and trust

• Thrive in a diverse and inclusive workplace that prioritises leadership with strong interpersonal skills

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 in data engineering, modelling and API design, ensuring scalable and reusable data structures

• Experience partnering with distributed teams to enhance data architecture and streamline pipeline efficiency

• Experience creating and contributing to key data architecture artefacts, including ERDs, semantic layer designs, data flow documentation, API specs and metadata management

Essential

• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to assess supplier technical proposals and drive cost-effective solutions

• Expertise in designing, improving and implementing data models to optimise performance and reliability

• Solid understanding of data lifecycle management, including retention policies and governance

Desirable

• Knowledge of industry trends, standards and best practices in data engineering and data management

• Certifications such as dbt Certified Developer, AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Google Professional Data Engineer, CDMP, etc

• Experience with cloud data platforms, governance and observability to enhance reliability and performance

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 Senior 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.