Product Architect – Digital Hub

Requirements of the role

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The team

This is an opportunity to contribute to a new strategic initiative within the FCA. The Product Architect sits within the Product Group and plays a key role in defining and overseeing the architecture and service design for a specific product group. This includes shaping the product roadmap and ensuring quality assurance across architectural decisions, technical designs and deliverables such as systems engineering documents. The role ensures all outputs align with enterprise platform and integration strategies, standards and patterns, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable and aligned technology solutions.

What will you be doing?

Shaping product roadmaps by defining scope, priorities and delivery timelines, including integration, solution design specifications and resolution of technical debt

Designing end-to-end architectural solutions—spanning high-level outlines to detailed designs—that align with enterprise standards and address capacity, ITSCM, security, licensing and integration requirements

Reviewing and assuring the quality of architectural artefacts from internal teams and external suppliers to ensure alignment with business, non-functional and strategic requirements

Identifying opportunities for product innovation and proposing designs that deliver measurable business benefits within the boundaries of the product roadmap

Supporting integration and functional testing to validate solutions against business acceptance and readiness criteria, while managing associated risks

Contributing to communities of practice through thought leadership, coaching and mentoring to enhance architectural capability across DTI

What will you get from the role?

An opportunity to grow as a leader in a dynamic, forward-looking technology environment, with a focus on developing team management skills

The chance to contribute to meaningful work that has a direct and positive impact on financial markets and wider society

A collaborative and inclusive culture, working with a diverse team of professionals with a broad range of skills and experiences

Recognition for your contributions to high-impact projects, with clear pathways for career progression based on performance and leadership

A supportive environment that values innovation, continuous learning and professional development

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here).

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