Jobs at Financial Conduct Authority

Provides operational resilience expertise across business areas, embedding business continuity frameworks, conducting impact analyses, mapping dependencies, assessing impact tolerances, coordinating scenario testing, managing remediation, overseeing supplier resilience, and supporting governance reporting and regulatory compliance.

Supports FCA policy work on consumer redress, compensation, and claims management. The role develops policy proposals and consultations, prepares communications and briefings, advises stakeholders, builds regulatory relationships, and uses data from firms, FOS, and FSCS to inform consumer protection decisions. It requires knowledge of FCA regulation, public policy, retail financial services, consumer redress frameworks, and strong analytical, communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of the FCA’s AWS-based AI platform. Build model gateways, RAG and memory services, agent orchestration, guardrails, evaluation tooling, observability, and secure self-service capabilities. Establish AI development lifecycle, CI/CD, quality, safety, and governance standards while partnering with product and engineering teams. The role requires technical leadership, production backend engineering, AWS expertise, AI platform experience, and experience delivering auditable solutions in regulated environments.

Supports Finance & Corporate Services process improvement and Workday optimisation through business analysis, process mapping, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, testing, reporting, and change delivery. The role analyses process, data, people, and technology impacts; facilitates workshops; documents current and future states; tracks priorities and benefits; and applies Lean and continuous improvement methods to enhance efficiency, controls, and user experience.

Leads supervision of digital asset and cryptoasset firms’ compliance with UK financial crime and financial services regulations. Manages, coaches, and develops staff; allocates supervisory work; assesses complex cases; makes regulatory judgments; develops strategies; supports supervisory frameworks; engages firms on FSMA implementation; and collaborates with legal, enforcement, intelligence, authorisations, policy, and financial crime teams.

Provides specialist oversight of operational, technology, cyber, and third-party resilience for UK financial services. Responsibilities include advising senior stakeholders, developing regulatory policy, conducting thematic reviews, assessing resilience capabilities, engaging firms and critical third parties, responding to significant incidents, supporting supervisory actions, and collaborating with regulators and industry partners. The role also involves external representation, project leadership, public speaking, and coaching colleagues.

Manage complex financial-services regulatory interventions, assess evidence and risks, prepare statutory notices and legal documents, advise decision-makers, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders. The role also involves managing caseloads, overseeing junior colleagues, mentoring and training staff, maintaining stakeholder relationships, and line-managing Associates when required.

Leads technology, operational resilience, and cyber risk supervision across regulated financial services firms. The role assesses technology and cyber capabilities, conducts thematic reviews, identifies emerging risks, benchmarks maturity, and provides evidence-based recommendations. It involves influencing senior stakeholders, partnering with supervision teams and regulatory authorities, shaping FCA strategy, and coaching others. The associate also applies regulatory approaches to technology and cyber resilience and helps strengthen sector-wide practices.

Lead regulatory responses to operational resilience incidents and cyber-attacks affecting financial firms. Coordinate incident triage, supervisory actions, cross-authority responses, industry exercises, governance, and senior-level reporting. Provide specialist expertise on cyber resilience, emerging technologies, AI, cloud, and automation while translating complex incidents into clear insights and recommendations. Build stakeholder relationships and promote best practices that strengthen consumer, firm, and financial-sector resilience.

Leads software engineering teams developing digital products with Java, Kotlin, Angular, and AWS. Partners with product owners and architects to deliver scalable solutions, establishes engineering best practices, supports business-critical platforms, resolves technical issues, and mentors junior colleagues. The role requires strong software architecture knowledge, automation experience, stakeholder management, structured problem-solving, and leadership across multiple teams.

Lead the People Analytics team and strategy, using workforce data to deliver insights for workforce planning, organisational performance, and employee experience. Develop analytical capability, oversee complex analysis, ensure data quality and governance, and provide evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders. Partner across HR, Finance, Technology, and the wider organisation while promoting responsible use of employee data and improving reporting, forecasting, and decision-making.