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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 department will partner with business leads to shape and deliver work in priority areas, including Authorisations, SPC, EMO and Anti-Money Laundering.

Responsibilities

• Standardize and advance reusable AI solution patterns and reference architectures to improve cross-team consistency and delivery quality.
• Establish end-to-end technical architectures for LLM-enabled systems, covering data pipelines, retrieval/RAG, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows.
• Analyze complex constraints across product, data, security, legal, and operations, translating them into clear standards and recommendations.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines for AI systems, introducing automation, traceability, and controlled release processes.
• Define monitoring, observability, and operational strategies to improve visibility across quality, performance, safety, cost, and reliability.
• Set standards for prompt engineering, evaluation, and testing to enhance solution quality and behavioral consistency.
• 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 and generating organizational impact.

Requirements

• Extensive backend engineering experience building production services such as APIs and 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 such as CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring.
• Experience collaborating with engineers to deliver iteratively.
• Solid backend engineering experience, with experience designing, building, and running reliable services in production (performance, resilience, and 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 to resolve delivery and operational challenges.
• Demonstrable capability in prompt design and in setting evaluation/testing approaches for LLM solutions (quality, safety/guardrails, and performance), including defining measurable success criteria.

Skills

• Backend engineering
• API development
• Microservices development
• Software engineering fundamentals
• Technical architecture design
• Cloud solutions on AWS
• DevOps practices
• CI/CD
• Containerization
• Monitoring
• LLM-enabled systems
• LLM APIs/Bedrock
• RAG architectures
• Vector databases
• Orchestration frameworks
• Prompt design
• Evaluation and testing for LLM solutions

Location

• Edinburgh
• Leeds
• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Lead
• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• £72,100 to £108,000 (National)
• £79,300 to £120,000 (London)

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 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.
• The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency.

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 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.