Data Engineer (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract) at Financial Conduct Authority | City of Edinburgh, GB | Rezi

Data Engineer (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract) at Financial Conduct Authority

Data Engineer (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract)

Financial Conduct Authority · City of Edinburgh, GB

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Data Engineer (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract)

Financial Conduct Authority · City of Edinburgh, GB

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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 by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency. Sitting within DTI, the Digital Intelligence department (DIS) delivers the Digital Unified Intelligence Environment (DUIE), which surfaces actionable insights through tools, dashboards and bespoke analysis. Within DIS, the Single View team delivers regulatory insights that help supervisors carry out case assessments, while also evaluating the quality and effectiveness of those insights.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust data flows connecting operational systems with analytics and business intelligence platforms.
  • Create and maintain source-to-target mapping documentation aligned to enterprise data models, governance frameworks, and data standards.
  • Transform manual and fragmented data processes into scalable, automated solutions.
  • Support the development of real-time and near real-time data streaming solutions.
  • Develop, optimise, and maintain ETL pipelines and code for high performance, reliability, and data quality.
  • Prepare, cleanse, and wrangle large and varied datasets for analytical models.

Requirements

  • Prior experience in teams designing, developing, testing, and implementing data solutions in complex environments, including integrating data from multiple source systems.
  • Strong practical experience of Tableau Prep, including designing, building, testing, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex Prep flows; integrating multiple data sources; applying joins, unions, transformations and calculations; and improving the performance, reliability, and maintainability of existing flows.
  • Extensive experience of extract, transform and load (ETL) processes, with strong programming and database skills, particularly in SQL and Python.
  • Experience of data profiling and source system analysis, with the ability to identify data issues, synthesise findings, and provide clear insights.
  • Experience designing, building, and testing data products and integration solutions using feeds from multiple systems, storage technologies, and access methods.
  • Strong understanding of data modelling principles, with experience producing, documenting, maintaining, and updating data models.
  • Experience working with metadata repositories to support data and systems integration, impact analysis, and metadata maintenance.
  • Knowledge and practical experience of data quality and problem resolution, testing practices, programming and scripting, and relevant data engineering concepts and techniques.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex technical and data concepts into clear and accessible language.
  • Awareness of opportunities to improve and innovate data solutions through new tools, technologies, and approaches.

Skills

  • Tableau Prep
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Data Profiling
  • Source System Analysis
  • Data Modelling
  • Metadata Repositories
  • Data Quality
  • Problem Resolution
  • Testing Practices
  • Programming
  • Scripting
  • Data Engineering Concepts

Location

  • Edinburgh
  • Leeds
  • London

Work Type

  • 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Associate Level 8 - Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

  • National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £61,000
  • London from £47,300 to £67,000

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
  • Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
  • 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
  • A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Equal Opportunity

  • 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.