Digital Forensics Engineering and Infrastructure Lead

Digital Forensics Engineering and Infrastructure Lead

Division – Enforcement and Market Oversight (EMO)

Department - Enforcement Intelligence & Specialist Services Directorate (EISS)

Team - Digital Services, Learning and Business

Salary - London £64,900 to £99,700 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.

The Enforcement Intelligence & Specialist Services Directorate (EISS) sits at the heart of Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) and provides strategic and highly specialised central support to EMO and the wider FCA.

The Digital Forensics Unit (DFU) within EISS provide comprehensive digital
evidence services to Enforcement and Market Oversight providing strategic
forensic investigative techniques for the acquisition, preservation, recovery and presentation of digital evidence.

What will you be doing?

• Support strategic planning and compliance efforts alongside the Quality and Digital Forensic Managers, ensuring alignment with ISO 17025, the Forensic Science Code of Practice and FCA policies based on NIST standards

• Lead the Digital Forensic Unit’s hardware, software and infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with business and data domains

• Manage complex projects, provide technical escalation support and define infrastructure strategies, including data centre planning and architectural governance

• Ensure security best practices across cloud and network layers, while researching trends and identifying innovation opportunities in collaboration with FCA stakeholders

• Oversee team operations through line management, mentoring junior engineers and contributing to communities of practice

• Support deployment and maintenance of forensic tools and services for investigations, leveraging frameworks like TOGAF and methodologies such as AGILE, ITIL and DevOps

What will you get from the role?

• Lead a team of skilled engineers to build a high-performing and innovative digital forensics function

• Play a key role in a nationally significant regulatory body with a strong focus on digital investigation

• Work with advanced forensic tools and infrastructure to support complex investigations

• Design and implement a secure, scalable hybrid cloud environment for digital forensics operations

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

• Experience in leading and managing technical teams, with a strong track record of overseeing complex infrastructure and network engineering projects

• Proficiency in networking: TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancing, Firewalls,
  strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

• Experience of managing On - Prem Network and of hybrid cloud
  infrastructure and network engineering

Essential

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues for non-technical audiences

• Broad knowledge of technology trends and enterprise-wide architecture

• Strategic and innovative thinker with strong pragmatic problem-solving abilities

• Skilled in applying architectural principles to develop effective business solutions

• Experienced in working with hybrid IT and multi-sourced environments

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

Supporting operations out of hours as part of an on-call support rota with additional payments.

For example:

Monday to Friday: 5.30pm to 8.30am 5 shifts

Weekends: 8.30am Saturday to 8.30am on Monday 4 shifts;

and Bank holidays: 8.30am to 8.30am the following day 2 shifts,

arrangement agreed by your manager

• This role is graded as Senior Associate – Regulatory

• Advert Closing Date:  28th July

• CV Review/Shortlist: Week commencing 28th July

• Technical Assessment: 12th August – 14th August (assessments will be in person)

• Competency Based Interview: Week commencing 21st August

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.