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)
This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory
Your recruitment contact is Riley Fox via [email protected] Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.
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.
Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) is responsible for the FCA’s responsibilities for market monitoring, delivery of the functions of the UK Listing Authority (UKLA) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.
The Market Oversight Data and Intelligence (MODI) department provides high-quality data, systems, and analytical tools to support effective market oversight. It maintains core data infrastructure, manages reporting regimes that improve market transparency, and ensures regulators have detailed insight into transactions across securities and derivatives markets. We also oversee Market Registers, such as the National Storage Mechanism and Official List of Securities. MODI operates as a flexible department. There are some responsibilities that will involve working very closely with other teams.
Within MODI, the Data Engineering and Technology (DET) team delivers insights by transforming large, complex datasets into usable intelligence. It brings together expertise in data engineering, data science, and software development to support Market Oversight, particularly in monitoring Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) markets and identifying behaviours that may threaten market integrity.
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 a technically challenging and high-impact position, offering opportunities to build data science skills, develop financial market knowledge, and work alongside experienced practitioners in a well-established team.
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
Skills required
Minimum:
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:
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
For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.
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
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
Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
