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About the Role

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator. This role will partner with business leads to shape and deliver work in priority areas, contributing to improved decision-making and long-term economic outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Standardize and advance reusable AI solution patterns and reference architectures for consistency and quality.
• Establish end-to-end technical architectures for LLM-enabled systems, including data pipelines, RAG, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows.
• Analyze complex constraints and translate them into clear standards and recommendations for AI solutions.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines for AI systems with automation and traceability for safe deployments.
• Define monitoring, observability, and operational strategies for AI systems.
• Set standards for prompt engineering, evaluation, and testing to enhance solution quality.
• Advance digital and data-driven methods by shaping organizational practices and innovation efforts.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver analytics-led solutions addressing regulatory challenges.

Requirements

• Extensive backend engineering experience building production services (APIs, microservices) with solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience developing technical architecture and designs and taking them through enterprise review processes.
• Experience delivering cloud solutions on AWS, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting services in live environments.
• Working knowledge of modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, monitoring).
• Experience collaborating with engineers to deliver iteratively.
• Solid backend engineering experience designing, building, and running reliable services in production (performance, resilience, security).
• Direct experience building and operating solutions on AWS, including AWS AI services and supporting platform services.
• AI engineering experience delivering LLM-enabled systems using LLM APIs/Bedrock, including RAG architectures, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
• DevOps skills including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and monitoring/observability.
• Experience defining release and operating practices for AI services.
• Experience leading engineering teams: providing technical guidance, aligning on standards/patterns, and adapting plans.
• Demonstrable capability in prompt design and in setting evaluation/testing approaches for LLM solutions, including defining measurable success criteria.

Skills

• Backend engineering
• API development
• Microservices development
• Software engineering fundamentals
• Technical architecture
• Design
• Cloud solutions (AWS)
• DevOps practices
• CI/CD
• Containerization
• Monitoring
• Iterative delivery
• Production service operation
• AWS AI services
• LLM APIs/Bedrock
• RAG architectures
• Vector databases
• Orchestration frameworks
• Observability
• Prompt design
• LLM evaluation
• LLM testing

Location

• National (Edinburgh and Leeds)
• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Technical Specialist – Regulatory
• Senior leader

Salary/Compensations

• National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £108,000
• London from £79,300 to £120,000 per annum

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid model (minimum 40% in office, 50% for senior leaders; changing to minimum 50% in office, 60% for Directors and Executive Directors from September)
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age)
• Life assurance at eight times salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• Income protection
• 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• Flexible benefits scheme

About the Company

• We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective.
• By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.
• At the FCA, we’re creating a fair and more resilient financial system.
• We’re establishing more transparent relationships between financial services and their customers, building trust in financial markets and protecting vulnerable consumers.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best.
• 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.
• If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.
• We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.
• We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process.
• In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.