Job Title: Data Engineer – Crypto Assets (12-month FTC)
Division: Enforcement & Market Oversight
Department: Market Oversight (Market Oversight Data & Intelligence)
* Salary: Senior Associate - Regulatory - National (Leeds and Edinburgh) £53,800 - £67,200 and London £59,200 - £73,800 (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
* Grade: Senior Associate - Regulatory
* Recruitment Contact: Riley Fox (Riley.Fox@fca.org.uk)
Role Description:
As a Senior Associate in DET, you would work end-to-end with large-scale market data, using cloud and big data technologies to prepare, analyse, and present insights through dashboards or analytical outputs. The role involves supporting market surveillance, contributing to investigations, and improving how the FCA uses data to monitor markets. It is technically challenging and high-impact, offering opportunities to build data science skills, develop financial market knowledge, and work alongside experienced practitioners.
Role Responsibilities
* Develop analytical tooling to enhance MO’s Market surveillance and investigation in a range of important crypto assets
* Undertaking systematic and ad-hoc analytics to identify prospective cases of market abuse (e.g. market manipulation)
* Working with surveillance analysts to enhance MO's surveillance and analytics platforms to cover a range of Crypto asset classes
* Using Data Engineering and Data Science techniques to reveal insights into Market Participants behaviours
* Helping oversee the submission and publication of crypto disclosures
Minimum Skills required
* Experience of financial markets and products specifically Crypto
* AWS experience with Lambdas, Step Functions, Events and Glue
* Experience applying data engineering/science techniques in the Financial Services industry especially with trading and market data
Essential Skills
* Be a highly organised individual and have experience in coordinating several workstreams at once ensuring issues are effectively prioritised and progressed on a timely basis
* A willingness to learn and apply new tools and techniques quickly
* Ability to work, and provide leadership, well in a team where members come from diverse backgrounds and have different areas of experience and expertise, both technical and non-technical
* Ability to present highly technical information and conclusions through straightforward logical stories
* Ability to think critically and independently as well as self-teach
* Able to work in a collaborative way with all members of the DET team and more broadly across MO and provide effective and clear communications and guidance as needed
* Able to present new ideas and outcomes in a clear and concise manner to all internal and external stakeholders and across all levels of seniority
* Experience with big-data technologies (e.g. AWS Redshift, Apache SPARK, Elastic Map Reduce etc)
* Experience with visualization and dashboard tools e.g. Tableau, QuickSight and custom apps using Javascript
* Experience with blockchain analytics tools (e.g. Chainalysis, TRM Labs or similar)
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
Useful information and timeline
* Advert Closing: 22nd June 2026 application will need to be submitted by 23:59
* CV Review/Shortlist: 24th June 2026
* 1st stage interviews: week commencing 6th July 2026
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