Cyber Security Product Architect

at  Financial Conduct Authority

Cyber Security Product Architect
Salary: National ranging from £67,100 to £95,000 and London from £73,700 to £110,000
The team / department
The Product Architect role sits within the Product Group, and is responsible for the overall architecture, including service design, for a product group. This includes creation of the technical product roadmap, and quality assurance and governance of architectural decisions, technical designs and other architectural deliverables (e.g. systems engineering document) to ensure alignment to enterprise platform and integration strategies, standards and patterns.
What you will be doing (the role)
Shaping the relevant product roadmaps which identifies the scope, prioritisation and timeframes for delivery of capability including integration and specification of the products’ solution design as well as addressing technical debt
Producing the technology and service architecture solutions, ensuring they align with enterprise product strategies and taking them through the relevant Design Authorities. The solutions will include consideration of capacity management, ITSCM, data governance, security, and software licensing requirements.
Review and quality assure artefacts created by external suppliers and internal teams ensuring the quality of the delivered solution to fulfil business and non-functional requirements and adhere to strategic vision for the product group and FCA. Ensuring documentation (and wiki) are relevant and up to date. Identifying opportunities for product innovation and shape design proposals for taking this forward; driving innovation at a product level where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the boundary of the product roadmap Supporting Integration and functional testing to ensure conformance to business acceptance and readiness criteria, identifying and responding to capacity, licensing and security risks, and determining service design outcomes are aligned to the FCA risk appetite. Leading contributions to the relevant communities of practice, providing thought leadership, coaching and mentoring of other employees to build the overall business, technical and product architect capability within the FCA

What you will get from the role

• Joining our team as a Product Architect means you’ll be part of a dynamic, innovative, and supportive environment protecting the regulation of the British economy through the FCA’s Zero Trust journey
• Contribute to ongoing security transformation that that a real impact on the resilience and agility of the FCA
• Work as part of a passionate team of talented professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and ambition

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.
Minimum criteria

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Experience as an architect working in cloud infrastructure and/or cybersecurity, with experience of creating strategies, roadmaps and architectural delivery plans, enabling innovation for the relevant products (SASE/CNAPP), platforms (AWS/Azure), systems or components, on large projects
• Experience working with formal architectural methodologies and frameworks
• Experience of working through end to end projects and/or product delivery lifecycle following development methodologies (e.g. Prince2, RUP, Scrum, Agile)

Essential criteria

• SABSA or TOGAF certified
• Understanding of Zero Trust strategy
• Familiarity with CNAPP; CSPM, CWPP, CIEM
• Familiarity with SASE; CASB, ZTNA, SWG and SD-WAN
• Familiarity with, or ability to quickly grasp, the business drivers of the organisation as well as its primary processes

About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found
here.
The FCA’s Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. 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.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Technical Specialist role.
Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.
Multi-location
As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful information

• Applications for this role close at 23:59 on the 26th November 2024
• This role is graded as Technical Specialist - Regulatory

Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood,
michael.wood@fca.org.uk
For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis,
asha.gladis@fca.org.uk
What to expect from our interview process
This will be a two-stage process focusing on the candidates technical ability.
Application support
We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.
If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.
Security Clearance/Vetting
The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted

What you will get from the role

• Joining our team as a Product Architect means you’ll be part of a dynamic, innovative, and supportive environment protecting the regulation of the British economy through the FCA’s Zero Trust journey
• Contribute to ongoing security transformation that that a real impact on the resilience and agility of the FCA
• Work as part of a passionate team of talented professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and ambitio

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Experience as an architect working in cloud infrastructure and/or cybersecurity, with experience of creating strategies, roadmaps and architectural delivery plans, enabling innovation for the relevant products (SASE/CNAPP), platforms (AWS/Azure), systems or components, on large projects
• Experience working with formal architectural methodologies and frameworks
• Experience of working through end to end projects and/or product delivery lifecycle following development methodologies (e.g. Prince2, RUP, Scrum, Agile