Salary & Grade
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £59,100 to £85,000 and London from £64,900 to £95,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience).
Grade: Lead Associate - Regulatory.
Role Responsibilities
* Discover opportunities for innovation and turn them into thoughtful design proposals that create meaningful impact and deliver value quickly.
* Create and review design papers, make confident design decisions and offer technical guidance that helps teams grow and succeed together.
* Champion quality by reviewing artefacts from internal teams and external partners, ensuring every solution meets business needs and aligns with our shared vision.
* Design architectural solutions that balance technology, security and capacity while staying aligned with enterprise standards and strategies, always keeping the bigger picture in mind.
* Simplify complexity by resolving technical challenges with care and clarity, making solutions easy to understand for all stakeholders and ensuring integrations run smoothly.
* Collaborate in design authority forums, support integration and functional testing and bring your expertise in data modelling to deliver solutions that meet readiness criteria and FCA risk appetite.
Minimum Skills Required
* Experience developing proof‑of‑concept solutions using Salesforce native technologies and delivering strategies, roadmaps, and architectural plans as a Solution Architect across consultancy, financial services and government sectors. Skilled in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), declarative tools and proficient in Git for version control and deployments, including conflict resolution and issue management.
* Demonstrated experience in technical leadership and agile delivery, including mentoring developers, producing documentation, estimating workloads and performing code reviews, unit/integration testing and defect resolution to maintain high‑quality, scalable systems.
* Proven experience working with Git for version control and deployments, including resolving merge conflicts and managing deployment‑related issues.
Essential
* Up‑to‑date knowledge of Salesforce releases, new features and industry best practices with the ability to recommend innovative solutions.
* Strong experience applying industry‑standard software design patterns and logical, strategic thinking to deliver scalable solutions.
* Proven problem‑solving skills with confidence to make decisions that restore functionality quickly while keeping the bigger picture in mind.
* Salesforce certifications are highly advantageous, including one or more of the following: Platform App Builder, Advanced Administrator, JavaScript Developer I, Platform Developer I/II, Experience Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant.
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). 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.
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 Employer
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.
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