Join the FCA as a Product Data Architect

Salary: National ranging from £67,100 to £110,000 and London from £73,700 to £110,000

Are you ready to influence change across the FCA by understanding our data, business processes, and strategic direction? If so, we want you on our team!

The Data Architecture Team

The Data Architecture team is dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining the structure of our organization's data assets. We define data standards, models, and frameworks to ensure data is organized, stored, and accessed efficiently and securely. Our team collaborates with stakeholders to understand data needs and support the organization's data-driven decision-making and strategic objectives.

Role Overview

As a Product Data Architect, you will:

• Lead the data design of solutions for large projects and programs.
• Translate high-level business requirements into data models and appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards.
• Communicate, improve, and implement key principles, methods, and models that describe the enterprise's future state in relation to data.
• Advise and participate in the specification, selection, design, implementation, and operation of information security controls.
• Contribute to the enterprise data framework and maintain expertise in industry innovation in data architecture.
• Lead contributions to relevant communities of practice, providing thought leadership and mentoring other employees.

What You’ll Gain

We seek a Product Data Architect with experience in complex problem analysis, conceptual data modeling, and requirements capture and refinement. You will have the opportunity to work with senior business stakeholders, shape data concepts, and contribute significantly to data procedures, practices, and policies.

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme includes:

• 28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We also support hybrid working, allowing you to work from home up to 60% of the time, with the remainder at our offices in Edinburgh, Leeds, or London.

Required Skills and Experience

As a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme, we offer interviews to disabled candidates meeting the minimum criteria. The essential criteria include:

• Experience in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling in complex environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with various data modeling techniques (3NF, star, snowflake, DV2, etc.)
• Experience with business analysis or requirement elicitation
• Understanding of relational/non-relational databases, data warehouses, and big data/data lakes
• Familiarity with creating data dictionaries and taxonomies
• Experience in the finance regulation domain is a plus

About the FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair, and competitive. For more information, see our three-year strategy .

FCA Values & Diversity

We aim to cultivate a culture of inclusion, respecting individual strengths, views, and experiences. Diversity enables us to make better decisions, drive innovation, and deliver better regulation. We particularly welcome applications from women, disabled, and minority ethnic candidates. Flexible working arrangements are also welcomed.

Application Process and Additional Information

Closing Date: 23:59 on 25th June 2024

Grading: Technical Specialist - Regulatory

If you have questions, contact:

• Internal applicants: Michael Wood ([email protected])
• External applicants: Asha Gladis ([email protected])

Interview Process: Two stages, including a competency-based interview and a technical interview.

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