Overview

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Department – Core Tech
Division – Digital, Technology and Innovation (DTI)
Team – Infrastructure Product Group (IPG)
Salary – National (Edinburgh and Leeds) from £52,400 to £71,200 and London £57,700 to £78,300 pro rata (salary offered 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. The Infrastructure Product Group (IPG) is the team responsible for the management and delivery of new services into the FCA AWS Cloud Datacentre. It is a high performing DevSecOps function running in an agile way. IPG sits within the Technology department in a multi-product group landscape – working collaboratively to enable and support business demand.

What will you be doing?

• Lead cloud project delivery by guiding teams through end-to-end execution—balancing timelines, budgets, and quality with a collaborative mindset
• Co-create project goals with stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and shared ownership from initiation through completion
• Drive structured planning and risk management, tracking progress and addressing challenges early to keep projects on course
• Support and coordinate cross-functional teams, enabling engineers, developers, and operations staff to deliver seamless cloud solutions
• Enhance our Amazon Cloud platform, focusing on performance, resilience, and security while identifying opportunities for innovation
• Embed reliability and learning, applying SRE practices, refining SLAs/SLOs, and documenting improvements to strengthen service delivery

What You Will Get From The Role

• An opportunity to work with FCA front line teams, partner organisations, technology suppliers and teams across our Data, Technology & Innovation division
• A chance to work in cross functional/cross divisional teams passionate about delivering value continuously
• Working with a wide range of people, teams, technology, projects to provide real value to consumers, financial services industry, financial markets and UK plc

Skills and Requirements

Disability Confident: We are a Disability Confident Employer; 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. For more on the Disability Confident Scheme, Click Here.

Minimum

• Prior experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS, contributing to stable, secure, and scalable environments
• Prior experience applying software development life cycle methodologies—such as Agile, Waterfall, and DevSecOps—in collaborative, outcome-focused settings
• Prior experience managing complex projects to deliver technology change, including cloud-hosted digital product development, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and quality assurance

Essential

• Proven ability to communicate clearly, build strong relationships, and lead with empathy and confidence
• Skilled in motivating and empowering technical teams to achieve shared goals
• Solutions-focused with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Our Values & Diversity

We are an inclusive employer and aim to cultivate a culture that respects individual strengths, views and experiences. Our differences enable better decisions, drive innovation and deliver better regulation. Within the workplace you will have access to employee resource groups to promote work/life balance and support 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 (up to 12% with age)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We offer a flexible benefits scheme to tailor packages and welcome flexible arrangements, including part-time work, staggered hours and job shares.

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Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible. If you have accessibility needs or conditions requiring changes to the recruitment process, contact your recruiter to discuss accommodations.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Senior Associate- Regulatory
• Advert Closing Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025 (midnight)
• CV Review/Shortlist: 18-19 September 2025
• Interview: from 25 September 2025

When submitting your application, tailor your CV to highlight how you meet the minimum and essential requirements. If you are unavailable for any date, please inform your recruiter during screening.

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact Steve Christopher at Steve.Christopher@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal.