Engineering Practice Manager

Division – Data, Technology & Innovation

Department - Digital Systems

Salary - £79,300 to £105,000 per annum (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 .

What will you be doing?

The primary role of the Engineering Practice Team is to improve software delivery quality and speed across the Digital Systems department. The team focuses on integrating Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and engineering metrics into a unified and scalable framework that empowers high-performing teams.

You will focus on how we engineer by collaborating with teams to understand their platforms and empowering them to be more efficient. Expect to:

• Develop and guide the engineering practice strategy, ensuring alignment of Agile, DevOps and delivery frameworks with broader organisational goals

• Oversee a multidisciplinary team including DevOps engineers, Agile coaches and QA specialists to enable scalable and efficient software delivery

• Champion the adoption of CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing and performance metrics to enhance both the quality and velocity of delivery

• Manage shared development and testing environments, advocating for Infrastructure as Code to ensure consistency, reliability and scalability

• Establish and nurture Communities of Practice across engineering domains to promote collaboration, continuous learning and standardisation

What will you get from the role?

• Serve as a key influencer in shaping engineering practices across Digital Systems, with a strong focus on Agile, DevOps and CI/CD adoption

• Guide a multidisciplinary team while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and driving transformation in regulatory software delivery

• Enjoy high visibility among senior mentorship, with the opportunity to build and nurture collaborative Communities of Practice that elevate technical excellence and developer experience

• Take ownership of outcomes over tasks, with the autonomy to implement meaningful changes across the software development lifecycle

• This is a newly created role, offering the freedom and empowerment to define its direction and make a lasting impact across teams

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

• Extensive experience in software engineering or DevOps

• Experience in people and process management, including line managing and coaching software engineers, implementing best practice and driving continuous improvement across engineering teams

• Experience evaluating, procuring, and implementing the right software engineering tooling

Essential

• Expertise in engineering best practices and standards, including code quality, architectural governance, DevOps maturity and security compliance, with hands-on experience in software development, environments, tooling and DevOps

• Proven change mentorship capabilities, successfully driving the adoption of new tools, processes and cultural shifts across multiple teams, with a strong Agile background and experience managing development or DevOps tooling teams

• Able to define and leverage key software engineering metrics such as velocity, code quality and incident rates to inform continuous improvement and effective resource allocation

• Capable of fostering cross-team alignment and adoption of best practices

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

• 28 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: Manager - Regulatory

• Advert Closing: Midnight 03 September (please submit your application no later than 11.59pm 02 September)

• Shortlist: 05 September

• First Interview: 15 - 24 September

• Manager Assessments: 25 September - 04 October

• Final Interview: 08 - 10 October

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:

Recruiter – Sonika.Suryadevara@fca.org.uk

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