Product Owner - Graph Analytics

Job title: Product Owner - Graph Analytics

Division: Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI)
Department: Digital Intelligence Solutions

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,700 to £87,400 and London from £66,600 to £96,300 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory

• Your Internal recruitment contact is Pat at Patrycja.matachowska@fca.org.uk.

• Your external recruitment contact is Ben via benjamin.paulon@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. 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.  

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Sitting within DTI, the Digital Intelligence Solutions team deliver a Digital Unified Intelligence Environment (DUIE) to surface insights for action through tools, dashboards and bespoke analysis.

Role responsibilities:

• You will lead the vision, strategy and performance of a complex graph analytics product spanning connected data, analytical services, application programming interfaces and user-facing tools with minimal supervision

• Own and communicate the product vision, strategy and outcome-based roadmap, balancing user needs, regulatory outcomes, technical opportunities, risk, cost and the FCA’s strategic objectives 

• Lead the full product lifecycle, from discovery and validation through development, operation, continuous improvement and retirement, using evidence to decide when to invest, continue, change direction, pause or stop

• Apply solid technical understanding of graph analytics to shape product choices, review architecture and analytical proposals, and identify where graph approaches will and will not add value, while working with technical leads who retain detailed engineering and architecture accountability

• Lead prioritisation and planning across a core multidisciplinary team and dependent platform and engineering teams, managing scope, uncertainty, dependencies and delivery risk

• Use research, data and direct engagement to understand user problems, test assumptions and turn needs into prioritised outcomes. Build consensus with regulatory users, technical specialists and senior stakeholders

• Own product performance, adoption, benefits, budget, operating cost, risk and lifecycle decisions. Define success measures, report transparently and use qualitative and quantitative evidence to enable continuous improvement

Skills required:

Minimum:

• Demonstrated experience leading a complex digital, data, or technology product across multiple lifecycle stages, including setting strategy, prioritizing an outcomes-focused roadmap, and delivering through multidisciplinary teams

• Prior experience managing technically complex data or analytical products

• Demonstrable experience using graph analytics and graph technologies, including graph data models, databases and query languages

Essential:

• Solid product management practice, including strategic ownership, user-centred discovery, outcome-based roadmapping, prioritisation under uncertainty and evidence-based lifecycle decisions

• Experience leading a multidisciplinary product team and coordinating delivery through dependent platform and engineering teams, while maintaining clear accountability for product outcomes rather than acting primarily as a delivery manager

• Ability to engage credibly with engineers, data scientists and architects on data models, architecture, scalability, performance, data quality, explainability, technical debt and operational resilience

• Experience applying user-centred, Agile and Lean approaches pragmatically, using research, service data and feedback to validate priorities, measure outcomes and improve the product 

• Commercial and value-for-money judgement, including ownership of product budgets and operating costs, and balancing investment, user value, organisational benefit and risk 

• Experience owning the ongoing performance of a live data or analytical product, including adoption, service performance, risk, governance, security, privacy, auditability and human oversight

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices

• 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 

• Job advert close: Friday 4th October at 23:59pm

• CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 6th October

• First Stage Interviews: w/c 26th October

• Second Stage Interviews: w/c 2nd November

• 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.  

• SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting