Technology Resilience and Cyber Policy Lead

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.

At a time of rapid technology change, increasing cyber threats and new regulations to improve operational resilience, you will have the unique opportunity to influence the FCA’s and industry’s agenda. You will work in the public interest, focused on increasing the sector’s operational resilience.

You will be working in the Strategic Projects team in Technology, Resilience and Cyber department (TRC). This is a dynamic team where the focus has been on developing and implementing the new Critical Third Parties (CTPs) regime. As the team also supports the wider department’s policy development you will be working on a range of different topic areas – e.g. developing final policy for incident management and third-party reporting, analysing and assessing emerging technological developments (e.g. AI and quantum) and shaping thinking around firms’ third-party arrangements to take account of these emerging technologies.

What will you be doing?

Leading the coordination and development and implementation of TRC’s policy work, with a focus on developing the Incident Management and Third-Party Reporting policy

Building strong working relationships with the PRA and Bank of England – as these policies will be developed jointly

Coordinating with internal and external FCA stakeholders on policy development and preparing related papers where knowledge of operational resilience is required

Keeping abreast of domestic and international policy developments

Drafting and inputting into internal and external deliverables, including consultation papers, policy statements, briefing notes, presentations, committee papers and communications

Providing upward reporting and updates on policy matters relevant to operational resilience to TRC leadership and the Specialist Directorate’s Director’s office

Horizon scanning for emerging developments impacting firms’ and their resilience and proactively identify opportunities to drive forward the policy landscape on operational resilience issues

Providing subject matter expertise and acting as a point of reference for colleagues inside and outside the team on policy matters

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