Job title: Senior Analytics Engineer – Financial Markets & Trading Data
Division: Supervision, Policy and Competition
Department: Sell-Side
Salary: Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £73,000 and London £57,700 to £80,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
This role is graded as: Senior Associate, Regulatory
Your recruitment contact is Shafika via [email protected] Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.
About the FCA and team
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.
SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). The Markets Directorates oversee wholesale banks, intermediaries, asset managers, market infrastructure and exchanges, amongst others, ensuring fair, transparent and resilient wholesale markets that support the effective functioning of the UK’s financial system.
Role responsibilities
Design and build high performance pipelines of trading data, transforming millions of daily records into model‑ready datasets for risk and market analysis
Own and evolve interactive web apps and dashboards, turning unique regulatory markets data into system-wide views across equities, fixed income, commodities, and FX, helping supervisors build a detailed understanding of firms’ and exposures
Conduct analyses on diverse and stimulating issues, empowering policy and supervisory teams to make informed, timely decisions whilst gaining exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products
Apply your technical skills to impactful challenges and play a key role in shaping how data are harnessed to supervise firms and markets
Skills required
Minimum:
Demonstrable data engineering experience within a financial markets context, able to design efficient SQL (Redshift) and Python code for complex ETL pipelines and feature engineering
Prior experience in building and deploying scalable cloud-based solutions with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster
Proficiency with data analytics tools and libraries (pandas, PySpark, etc)
Essential:
Deep understanding of financial markets
Experience applying machine learning techniques to market data
Experienced in developing user-friendly analytical products, e.g. dashboards, self-service tools, or streamlit apps
Demonstrated capacity to work well with a wide range of stakeholders
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
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)
A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle
For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.
Our values and culture
Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. 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.
Disability confident: our hiring approach
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.
Useful information and timelines
Advert Close Date: 29th March 2026
CV Review/Shortlist: 31st March 2026
Pre-screening: w/c 9th April 2026
Codility Assessment: from 16th April 2026
First Interview: from 24th April 2026
Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
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What We Do
We work to ensure financial markets work well for individuals, for businesses and for the economy as a whole. We do this by: - regulating the conduct of approximately 50,000 businesses - prudentially supervising 48,000 firms - setting specific standards for around 18,000 firms We were set up on 1 April 2013, taking over conduct and relevant prudential regulation from the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Our Head Office is based in London, and we work across the UK, from our office in Edinburgh and via colleagues in Belfast and Cardiff. Firms and individuals must be authorised or registered by us to carry out certain activities. Before we grant authorisation, firms must demonstrate that they meet a range of requirements. We then supervise these firms to make sure they continue to meet our standards and rules after they’re authorised. If firms and individuals fail to meet these standards, we have a range of enforcement powers we can use. We work alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the prudential regulator of around 1,500 banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms.
