Cloud Product Lead Analyst

Department – Core Tech

Division – Digital, Technology and Innovation (DTI)

Team – Infrastructure Product Group (IPG)

Salary – National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £71,200 and London £57,700 to £78,300 pro rata (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About The FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Infrastructure Product Group (IPG) is the team responsible for the management and delivery of new services into the FCA AWS Cloud Datacentre. It is a high performing DevSecOps function running in an agile way. IPG sits within the Technology department in a multi-product group landscape – working collaboratively to enable and support business demand.

What will you be doing?

• Lead cloud project delivery by guiding teams through end-to-end execution—balancing timelines, budgets, and quality with a collaborative mindset
• Co-create project goals with stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and shared ownership from initiation through completion
• Drive structured planning and risk management, tracking progress and addressing challenges early to keep projects on course
• Support and coordinate cross-functional teams, enabling engineers, developers, and operations staff to deliver seamless cloud solutions
• Enhance our Amazon Cloud platform, focusing on performance, resilience, and security while identifying opportunities for innovation
• Embed reliability and learning, applying SRE practices, refining SLAs/SLOs, and documenting improvements to strengthen service delivery
  
  

What You Will Get From The Role

• An opportunity to work with many FCA front line teams, partner organisations, technology suppliers and teams across our Data, Technology & Innovation division
• A chance to work in cross functional/cross divisional teams passionate about delivering value continuously
• Working with a wide range of people, teams, technology, projects to provide real value to consumers, financial services industry, financial markets and to UK plc
  
  

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process (to learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here).

Minimum

• Prior experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS, contributing to stable, secure, and scalable environments
• Prior experience applying software development life cycle methodologies—such as Agile, Waterfall, and DevSecOps—in collaborative, outcome-focused settings
• Prior experience managing complex projects to deliver technology change, including cloud-hosted digital product development, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and quality assurance
  
  

Essential

• Proven ability to communicate clearly, build strong relationships, and lead with empathy and confidence
• Skilled in motivating and empowering technical teams to achieve shared goals
• Solutions-focused with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  
  

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture 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.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

Benefits Of Working At The FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• 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 also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

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 can explore what might work best for both sides.

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Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Senior Associate- Regulatory
• Advert Closing Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025 (midnight)
• CV Review/Shortlist: 18-19 September 2025
• Interview: from 25 September 2025
  
  

When submitting your application, please tailor your CV to highlight how you meet the minimum and essential requirements above.

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. 

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact Steve Christopher on [email protected]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted