Senior Analytics Engineer, Financial Conduct Authority
Financial Markets & Trading Data
£52.4-78k
Salary range dependent on candidate location
Financial regulation service
Open for applications
Financial regulation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£52.4-78k
Salary range dependent on candidate 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
- Proven data engineering experience within a financial markets context, able to design efficient SQL (Redshift) and Python code for complex ETL pipelines and feature engineering
- Hands-on 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)
- 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
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate Data Engineer to work in our Market Analysis & Risk Team
- The team is part of the Supervision, Policy, and Competition (SPC) division where our directorates combine both our supervisory and policy-making work across sell-side, infrastructure, and exchanges
- The team’s role is to provide sophisticated insights to deliver data-informed policymaking and supervision, utilising a wide range of state-of-the-art cloud-based tools
- In alignment with our digital transformation, we use regulatory and markets data to better supervise the firms we regulate
- This includes large wholesale banks, principal trading firms, and market infrastructure such as exchanges
- Further, using our markets data, we aid in the development of our regulation and policy to improve how our markets function and assess the impact of our policies
- You will design and build data pipelines handling millions of records daily to produce model-ready inputs for risk and market analysis
- As part of this, you will be using large-scale proprietary datasets (such as e.g. transaction-level trading data or data on firms’ derivatives positions) as well as commercial data (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.)
- Your work will help power interactive web applications and dashboards that provide system-wide views of trading and positioning across equities, fixed income, commodities, and FX, leveraging unique regulatory data
- At the same time, there is also every opportunity to get involved in conducting analysis or to develop analytical tools to inform our policy making and supervisory actions
- If you are passionate about data, markets, and meaningful impact, this is your opportunity to make a real difference
- You will be working as part of a team at the very heart of everything wholesale financial markets at the FCA
- You will work closely with fellow data specialists and analysts, delivering insights in collaboration with stakeholders across the directorates
- You will work with unique regulatory markets data and play a key role in shaping how data are harnessed to supervise firms and markets
- You will gain exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products, while working on diverse and intellectually stimulating issues that span both policy and supervision
Application process
- Advert Closing Date: Sunday 4th January at 23:59
- CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 6th January
- First Round Case Study Assessment: W/C 12th January
- Competency Based Interview: W/C 19th January
- 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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