• Job Description

  Req#: JR0013725

  Enterprise Platform Architect

  Salary: National ranging from £70,000 to £90,000 and London from £80,000 to £100,000

  Are you someone who wants an opportunity to deliver challenging and interesting strategy and roadmap leadership, across a complex IT enterprise, supporting a varied and fast paced portfolio of change, working with colleagues from across the FCA?

  The team/department

  We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Platform Architect with strong communication and stakeholder management skills. You'll be looking for an opportunity to bring fresh knowledge into the FCA, to work with the technical teams across our product groups and programmes, and with our technical and business leadership and make a substantial and valued contribution in a role that offers great challenges both in the immediate future and as the team develops its capabilities.

  You'll be up to speed on modern application architecture and integration, you will also have a good understanding of business, technology, data and infrastructure architecture built on cloud frameworks. The Platform Architect is responsible for ensuring the choices the organisation makes support the current and future business needs. The role contributes to the technical vision for the FCA and helps ensure this vision and associated technology roadmaps are widely communicated.

  What you will be doing (the role)

  • Leading the business application and integration architecture domain, ensuring it forms a strategically aligned technical architecture, and providing thought leadership, marrying best practice and market trends, with the FCA context

  • Defining and maintaining enterprise business application strategies and roadmaps which supports the realisation of Business and Technology Strategy

  • Defining, documenting, and maintaining patterns, policies, standards, guidelines and principles for the business application and integration domain, ensuring that these can be adopted successfully by the Product Groups

  • Providing architectural governance, by working with Product Groups and Programmes, and by chairing/participating in governance boards, to ensure solutions are aligned to the strategy and technology direction

  • Interfacing with senior business and technology leaders, as trusted advisor, and expert, to influence and guide opinion and decision making, within the domain

  • Developing a central repository of tools, data stores and artefacts to support the Strategy & Architecture function. Supporting the Community of Practice

  What you will get from the role

  • Stimulating, innovative and experimental work to solve the biggest challenges facing financial regulation, with market leading technologies and practices

  • An opportunity to develop and rollout full lifecycle DevSecOps process and tools. An opportunity to be at the forefront of a digital and data transformation

  • Shaping and maturing our leading-edge journeys towards the Cloud and Zero Trust, where we seek to be self-service multi-cloud, with flexible access

  Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

  Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

  • 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 (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

  • Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

  • Income protection

  We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

  The skills and experience you will have

  Minimum

  We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

  • Significant experience in applying architecture principles to affect changes to a business environment and application and integration architecture

  • Knowledge of architectural governance processes and formal architecture methodologies and frameworks

  • Involvement in working within or an appreciation of Infrastructure, Software and Platform as a Service (IaaS, SaaS & PaaS)

  • Experience of developing and promoting innovative technical strategies and demonstrating understanding of the interactions between people, processes and technology

  Essential

  • Ability to take a holistic view of the organisation and its business needs ensuring cross functional considerations are accounted for

  • Know how to grasp issues of a business nature, apply strategic and innovative thinking to develop pragmatic solutions and assess the technical impact

  • Excellent stakeholder management at all levels, negotiating and influencing skills, with good consulting and relationship management skills working comfortably at all levels of the organisation across differing levels of technical capability

  • Experience of SAFe, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps TOGAF or Zachman

  • Deep knowledge of a broad range of technology and technology trends

  • Experience of working with multiple solutions service providers and reviewing and recommending sourcing options for delivering the target enterprise business application and integration platforms

  • Significant experience of API integration, containerisation and microservices

  • Knowledge of cloud technology platforms (AWS, O365, GCP)

  About the FCA

  The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

  The FCA's Values & Diversity

  Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. 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.

  The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Technical Specialist role.

  Flexible working

  We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

  Multi-location

  As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

  Useful information

  Applications for this role close at 23:59 on the 21st February 2024.

  This role is graded as Technical Specialist - Regulatory

  Got a question?

  If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:

  For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood, michael.wood@fca.org.uk

  For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis at asha.gladis@fca.org.uk

  What to expect from our interview process

  This will consist of a case study and a technical and competency based interview.

  Application support

  We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

  If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.

• About the company

  The Financial Conduct Authority is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK Government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry.

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