Manager of AI Platforms and Engineering, Financial Conduct Authority
£72.1-120k
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Financial regulation service
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Financial regulation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£72.1-120k
Salary may vary by location
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable a fair and thriving financial services market for the good of consumers and the economy.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience delivering and operating modern technology platforms, with exposure to DevOps, MLOps or similar engineering practices that support reliable, scalable services
- Prior experience supporting live, production systems, including monitoring, incident response and ongoing service improvement to ensure performance and reliability
- Demonstrated people or team leadership capability, with the ability to collaborate effectively, provide direction, and work with a range of technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to design and operate shared AI or platform services, embedding modern MLOps/DevOps practices to support scalable, production ready solutions
- Extensive experience managing live platforms, including monitoring, incident management, change control and operational resilience, with clear accountability for service performance
- Demonstrated capability to implement and use evaluation, telemetry and optimisation frameworks to assess quality, performance and value, and to inform continuous improvement and cost control
- Experience setting reference architectures, reusable components and guardrails to ensure consistent, secure and responsible technology use across multiple teams
- Ability to manage, develop and motivate engineers or specialists, providing clear direction, feedback and support while building an effective, inclusive team
- Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, guide delivery teams, and balance innovation with organisational and regulatory expectations
What the job involves
- Job Title: Manager of AI Platforms and Engineering
- Division: Data, Technology and Innovation
- Department: AI Product Delivery
- This role is graded as: Manager – Regulatory
- You'll own and deliver LLM platform foundations, including the LLM gateway, telemetry, prompt and template management, evaluation frameworks and vector store services, ensuring they are robust, reusable and fit for enterprise use
- Establish and mature LLMOps practices, embedding CI/CD for prompts and chains, continuous evaluation, monitoring, and incident management integration to support reliable production operation
- Set and maintain reference architectures and shared components, enabling teams to build consistently, safely and efficiently while reducing duplication and technical risk
- Ensure cost and performance optimisation, defining guardrails such as workflow boundaries and right-sized model usage to ensure sustainable and responsible consumption of LLM services
- Provide technical leadership and assurance, guiding delivery teams and stakeholders to adopt standards, controls and best practice aligned to organisational and regulatory expectations
- Continuously improve platform effectiveness, using telemetry, evaluation data and operational insights to inform enhancements, manage risk and maximise value from investment in LLM capabilities
Application process
- Advert Closing: 6th May (midnight)
- CV Review/Shortlist: 7th May
- 1st stage – W/C 11th May
- Hays Assessment – 18th May
- 2nd Stage – 12th June
- 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
Our take
Developed on the back of the Financial Services Act of 2012, the Financial Conduct Authority is a regulatory body that acts as a regulator for financial firms, ensuring the integrity of the financial markets in the UK. Broadly focused on financial companies that provide consumer services, it’s governed by the Bank of England and therefore acts independently of the government.
The FCA is responsible for regulatory innovations, such as stronger customer authentication requirements, including biometric and code requirements for payments, that have clamped down on fraud and improved security for national consumers. The FCA also introduced the Anti-Money Laundering Supervision in 2017.
The organisation’s independence from government ensures its impartiality as a regulator. In the late 2010s, it set up the cryptoasset registration, a department responsible for ensuring the legality of crypto payments. This has become an important aspect of national counter terrorism measures, and exemplifies the complex and vital work that the organisation carries out.
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Company benefits
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
- Private healthcare with Bupa
- A non-contributory Pension of at least 8%
- Life assurance
- Income protection
Company HQ
Stratford Cross, London, UK
Leadership
Nikhil Rathi
(CEO)Previously the Private Secretary to UK Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and was the Chief of Staff and Director of International Development at the London Stock Exchange. Studied at St Anne's College Oxford.
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