Cyber Security Product Architect in London

This role is graded as: Technical Specialist - Regulatory

About the FCA and team

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you will play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency. Sitting within DTI, the Technology Resilience team safeguards the FCA's digital assets, services and suppliers to ensure the organisation remains secure and compliant.

Role responsibilities

• Shaping the relevant product roadmaps by defining scope, prioritisation and delivery timeframes for capability, including integration and specification of the product solution design and addressing technical debt, creating clear direction and supporting strategic, maintainable product delivery.
• Producing technology and service architecture solutions aligned with enterprise product strategies and progressing them through the appropriate Design Authorities, incorporating capacity management, ITSCM, data governance, security and software licensing requirements to ensure robust, compliant and sustainable services.
• Reviewing and quality assuring artefacts from external suppliers and internal teams to meet business and non-functional requirements while maintaining up-to-date documentation and wikis, safeguarding quality and alignment with organisational vision.
• Identifying opportunities for product innovation by shaping design proposals that deliver quick wins and business benefit within the boundaries of the product roadmap, promoting continuous improvement and value.
• Supporting integration and functional testing to meet business acceptance and readiness criteria, addressing capacity, licensing and security risks and ensuring service design aligns with organisational risk appetite, enhancing readiness and robustness.
• Engaging with communities of practice to offer guidance, coaching, and mentorship that enhances business, technical, and product architecture proficiency and encourages a united architecture community.

Skills required

• Significant experience as an architect working in cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity, with experience of creating strategies, roadmaps and architectural delivery plans, enabling innovation for the relevant products, platforms, systems or components, on large projects.
• Significant experience working with formal architectural methodologies and frameworks.
• Significant experience of technologies in Threat Detection & Response and Attack Surface Management.

Essential

• SABSA or TOGAF certified.
• Understanding of Zero Trust strategy.
• Detailed design skills.
• Familiarity with, or ability to quickly grasp, the business drivers of the organisation as well as its primary processes.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors).
• Non-contributory pension (8-12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that is free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. 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.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support. We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability Confident: our hiring approach

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role's key requirements.

Useful information and timeline

• Advert Closing: 31/03/26 (midnight).
• CV Review/Shortlist: 01/04/26.
• Interviews W/C: 06/04/26.

SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.