Product Architect

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

Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) is leveraging state-of-the-art data & digital capabilities to deliver innovation in regulation. We utilise data science and intelligence gathering to proactively identify and intervene to prevent harm and protect consumers.​

The Product Architect role sits within the Product Group, and is responsible for the overall architecture, including service, for a suite of products and quality assurance of architectural decisions, technical designs and other architectural deliverables (e.g. systems engineering document) to ensure alignment to enterprise platform and integration strategies, standards and patterns. The primary focus for this role will be our Market Monitoring & Reporting (MMR) platform and the Market Data Processor (MDP) product which is being redeveloped onto the MMR platform in 2026. This is a hands-on role where a technical / engineering background will be highly beneficial.

What will you be doing?

• Shaping the relevant product roadmaps which identifies the scope, prioritisation and timeframes for delivery of capability including integration and specification of the products’ solution design as well as addressing technical debt
• Producing architectural solutions including technology and service artefacts, ensuring solutions consider capacity management, ITSCM, security and software licensing requirements. High level outlined architecture to detailed architecture, and where required, high and low level technical designs that are aligned to enterprise architecture standards
• Review and quality assure artefacts created by external suppliers and internal teams ensuring the quality of the delivered solution to fulfil business and non-functional requirements and adhere to strategic vision for the product group, Technology and FCA
• Identifying opportunities for product innovation and shape design proposals for taking this forward; driving innovation at a product level where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the boundary of the product roadmap
• Supporting Integration and functional testing to ensure conformance to business acceptance and readiness criteria, identifying and responding to capacity, licensing and security risks, and determining service design outcomes are aligned to the FCA risk appetite. Active involvement in Change Impact Assessments and Production Incident investigations
• Leading and represent MIE Product Group design and technology change approvals at various FCA Design Authority groups and forums. Support the management of internal and external stakeholders, providing SME assurance at various levels

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