Senior Data Scientist - Markets in London

This role is graded as: Senior Associate - 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’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). The Markets Directorates oversee wholesale banks, intermediaries, asset managers, market infrastructure and exchanges, amongst others, ensuring fair, transparent and resilient wholesale markets that support the effective functioning of the UK’s financial system.

Role responsibilities

• Design and build high performance pipelines of trading data, transforming millions of daily records into model-ready datasets for risk and market analysis.
• Own and evolve interactive web apps and dashboards, turning unique regulatory markets data into insights across equities, fixed income, commodities, and FX, helping supervisors build a detailed understanding of firms’ and exposures.
• Conduct analyses on diverse and stimulating issues, empowering policy and supervisory teams to make informed, timely decisions whilst gaining exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products.
• Apply your technical skills to impactful challenges and play a key role in shaping how data are harnessed to supervise firms and markets.

Skills required

• Demonstrable data engineering experience within a financial markets context, able to design efficient SQL (Redshift) and Python code for complex ETL pipelines and feature engineering.
• Experience in developing user-friendly analytical products, e.g. dashboards, self-service tools, or streamlit apps.
• Demonstrable proficiency with tools and libraries for data analysis, including relevant Python libraries.
• Deep understanding of financial markets.
• Experience applying machine learning techniques to market data.
• Prior experience in building and deploying scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Demonstrated capacity to work well with a wide range of stakeholders.

Benefits

• 25 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).
• 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 Values & Culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s 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’re 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

• Job advert close: Wednesday 1st July at 23:59pm.
• CV Review/Shortlist: Friday 3rd July.
• Case Study Assessment: 9th – 13th July.
• Interview: w/c 20th July.

At the FCA, we’re creating a fair and more resilient financial system. We’re establishing more transparent relationships between financial services and their customers, building trust in financial markets and protecting vulnerable consumers.