Lead Product Owner

Job Title:Lead Product Owner

Division: DataTechnologyand Innovation

Department: Digital Systems

• Salary:National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from 72100 to 103000and London from 79300 to 113000per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as:Technical Specialist Regulatory

• Your external recruitment contact isBenjamin via

• Your internal recruitment contactis Lauren via

• Applications must besubmittedthrough 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 fairthrivingand effective. By joining usyoullplay 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 Systems team delivers the systems that enable the FCA to be a more effective and smarter regulator.

Role responsibilities

• Deliver change and operational services through development maintenance and operations partners on a complex product enabling end-to-end ownership and stability while giving you the opportunity to work on systems with real scale and visibility

• Estimate resources costs and timelines for product change and shaping prioritisation across the portfolio with senior stakeholders ensuring informeddecision-makingand offering you direct influence over strategic investment and delivery outcomes

• Deliver technical and service solutions that meet agreed acceptance and definition of ready criteria through agile andDevSecOpspractices resulting in faster more secure and higher-quality delivery while deepening your experience in modern engineering approaches

• Forecast and tracking product-level costs aligned to sponsoring divisions and projects contributing to budget and recharge processes to support financialtransparencyand giving you exposure to commercial ownership beyond delivery execution

• Setmonitorand track performance against key performance indicators toprovideclear insight into product health and delivery effectiveness enabling you todemonstratemeasurable impact and continuous improvement

• Ensure compliance with governance requirements while refining and clarifying stakeholder requirements for development teams balancing regulatory rigour with deliverypaceand allowing you tooperateas a trusted bridge between business and technology

Skillsrequired

Minimum:

• Demonstrated experience heading teams of staff and external partners accountable for a complex product throughout the full lifecycle of IT change and operational delivery

• Extensive service management knowledge including incident and problem management across a diverse and complex business environment

• Solid planning and delivery capability withsignificant experienceestimating resource cost and time requirements as well as executing capacity (resource and technology)availabilityand release planning to deliver and run product change effectively

Essential:

• Experience of software application/infrastructure life-cycle management and the activities involved in application/infrastructure development/change

• Knowledge of and exposure to agile development practices

• Commercially aware with the ability to understand supplier proposals and promote cost-effective solutions

• Solid technical and architectural knowledge across relevant environments platforms software industry and business practices with the ability to solve complex problems make final decisions restore functionality and deliver effective outcomes

• Credible and steady leader with experience negotiating with executives and clearly communicating explicit and implicit enterprise trade-offs building relationships across the organisation and coaching peers and specialist teams in product management methodologies

• Strategic yet pragmatic thinker who motivates and leads innovation internally and externally providing industry-relevant thought leadership while constructively challenging established approaches and focusing on the bigger picture

Benefits

• 28days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of50% for senior leaders). Changing from September toa minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of60% for Directors andExecutive Directors)

• Non-contributory pension (812% 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: onethatsfree 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 yourequireany 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

Wereproud to be a Disability Confident Employer and therefore people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet theminimumcriteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the roles key requirements.

Useful information and timeline

• Advert Closing:25/05/26

• CV Review/Shortlist:26/05/26

• First StagetelephoneInterviews W/C:03/06/26

• Second Stage technical interview: w/c 08/06/26 & 15/06/26

• 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.