Data Engineer – Market Oversight Data & Intelligence

Requirements of the role

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Market Oversight Directorate is responsible for overseeing the conduct of participants in the primary and secondary markets through the listing, prospectus, and market abuse regimes. The mission of the Division is to promote the conduct that supports trusted, orderly, and efficient primary and secondary markets in the UK which work in the interests of all participants and stakeholders.

Market Oversight Business Intelligence (MOBI) comprises a team of specialists in software engineering, data science, project management and big data. The purpose of MOBI can be summarised as follows:

• Deliver insight to Market Oversight (MO) & the wider FCA through exploitation of MO Datasets
• Continue to be a leading Data Engineering and Science Team

What will you be doing?
As a Senior Associate in the Market Oversight Business Intelligence (MOBI), you will be working with one of the largest, most comprehensive wholesale market datasets in Europe. Using latest cloud and big-data technologies, you will use data engineering and science techniques to deliver insights to market surveillance analysts where you own the process from reshaping the data, all the way to analysis output or dashboard production. Your work will enhance Market Oversight’s (MO) ability to understand and proactively monitor the UK’s Wholesale Markets through the following core activities of this role:

• Develop and maintain MO’s ecosystem so that data is received, processed, and stored to enable innovative solutions to be developed
• Develop investigative tooling to enhance MO’s Market Monitoring capabilities in a range of systemically important asset classes
• Undertaking systematic and ad-hoc investigations to identify prospective cases of market abuse (e.g., insider dealing and market manipulation)
• Working with surveillance analysts to enhance MO’s surveillance and analytics platforms
• Using Data Engineering and Data Science techniques to reveal insights into Market Participants behaviours
• Work flexibility within the directorate to support overall objectives

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