Product Data Architect

 Product Data Architect 

Salary: National ranging from £67,100 to £110,000 and London from £73,700 to £110,000

Are you someone who wants an opportunity to influence change across the FCA through understanding our data, business processes and strategic direction?

 The team/department  

The Data Architecture team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the structure of an organisation data assets. This includes defining data standards, models, and frameworks to ensure data is organised, stored and accessed efficiently and securely. The team collaborates with stakeholders to understand data needs and other data initiatives to support the organisation’s data-driven decision making and strategic objectives. 

What you will be doing (the role)  

• Lead the data design of solutions for large projects and programs; through expert knowledge translate high-level business requirements into data models and appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards  

• Communicating, improving and implementing the key principles, methods and models that describe the enterprise's future state in relation to data

• Advising and participating in the specification, selection, design, implementation, and operation of information security controls to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and relevant compliance of information systems to security standards  

• Contributing to the enterprise data framework and maintaining expertise in industry innovation in data architecture to improve maturity of the organisation's approach to data architecture

• Leading contributions to the relevant communities of practice, providing thought leadership, coaching and mentoring of other employees to build the overall business, technical and Data Architecture capability within Strategy & Architecture

What you will get from the role  

• We are looking for a Product Data Architect with experience of complex problem analysis, conceptual data modelling, requirements capture and refinement

• You'll be looking for an opportunity to work with senior business stakeholders to understand, scope and interpret strategic business change into data concepts which can then shape the broader data landscape

• You will be a key contributor to data procedures practices and policies and make a substantial and valued contribution to the FCA in a role that offers great challenges in the immediate future and as the FCA develops

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  

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, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.  

Minimum Criteria   

• Hands on experience of conceptual, logical and physical data modelling in a complex environment

• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience in data modelling (3NF, star, snowflake, DV2, etc. schemas)

Essential  Criteria  

• Significant experience in traditional data modelling techniques (3NF, Dimensional, Snowflake, DV2 etc) using a range of modelling and architecture tools. (Erwin, Power Designer, Sparx etc)

• Experience of business analysis or requirement elicitation and shaping

• Exposure to relational/non-relational databases, data warehouse and big data/data lake concepts

• An understanding in creating data dictionaries and taxonomies and developing best practices and governance for dictionary maintenance

• Familiarity/experience in finance regulation domain

• Experience of working with internal customers to define data relevant use cases and build appropriate models which meet their needs

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 25th June 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, asha.gladis@fca.org.uk 

What to expect from our interview process    

This will involve a two stage interview process, one hour competency based interview as well as a one our technical 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.