Markets Data Engineer

Financial Conduct Authority

Data Engineer role focusing on transforming trading data into model-ready datasets. Responsible for building dashboards and supporting regulatory teams with data analysis.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £53,000 - £76,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftPandasPySparkPythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leverage high performance pipelines of trading and position data, transforming millions of daily records into model‑ready datasets for risk and market analysis
Build interactive dashboards and web apps, turning unique regulatory markets data into system-wide views across fixed income, commodities, FX and equities helping stakeholders build a detailed understanding firm and sector risks through flow and exposure data
Be part of the analysis on diverse and stimulating issues, empowering market abuse, policy and supervisory teams to make informed, timely decisions whilst gaining exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products
Opportunity to be involved in shaping how data are harnessed to monitor and supervise firms and markets

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrable experience of analysing, joining, validating commercial and regulatory data as well as visualisation (Tableau)
Proficiency with data analytics tools and libraries (Pandas, PySpark, etc) as demonstrated in prior job roles
Demonstrable data science or engineering experience within a financial markets context, using SQL (Redshift) and Python
Understanding of financial markets
Experienced in developing user-friendly analytical products, e.g self-service tools, or web applications

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders).
Flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysisdata validationdata visualizationdata sciencedata engineeringSQLPythonPandasPySparkTableau

Soft Skills

analytical thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationdecision-making