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Salesforce Product Architect
Product Architect
Division: Data, Technology and Innovation
Department: Digital Systems
Salary & Grade
Salary: National (Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £103,000 (structured based on skills and experience) Grade: Technical Specialist – Regulatory
Recruitment Contacts
- External: Benjamin – benjamin.paulon@fca.org.uk
- Internal: Lauren – Lauren.Pyrah@fca.org.uk
- Application Process: Mandatory online submission only.
About the FCA and Team
We regulate financial services firms in the UK, ensuring fair, thriving, and effective markets. By joining us, you’ll contribute to:
- Protecting consumers
- Driving economic growth
- Shaping the future of UK finance
Our Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division delivers a secure, agile, cost-effective technology and data ecosystem to support: ✔ Smarter decision-making ✔ Transparency ✔ Operational efficiency
Within DTI, the Digital Systems team is responsible for the systems enabling the FCA to be a more effective regulator.
Role Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Designing architectural product solutions (technology and services) ensuring they align with product objectives in a repeatable, generic fashion while addressing capacity management, IT service management (ITSCM), security, and licensing.
- Identifying product innovation opportunities and developing design proposals for implementation.
- Shaping product roadmaps, defining:
- Scope
- Prioritisation
- Timeframes for capability delivery
- Leading communities of practice through:
- Thought leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring to enhance skills in business, technical, and product architecture across IT.
- Working on high-impact, fast-paced initiatives leveraging:
- Latest tools, technologies, and training
- Continuously building in-demand technical expertise
- Collaborating in a supportive, inclusive culture to maximise performance and growth.
- Contributing to the regulation of financial services, ensuring critical infrastructure integrity and impact on millions of lives.
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Minimum & Essential Requirements
Minimum Skills
✅ Proven experience with Salesforce CRM ✅ Experience as a product architect (e.g., Software, Data, Application, System, or Security) with architectural responsibility for products. ✅ Significant experience in delivering end-to-end project/product lifecycles, adhering to methodologies like:
- Prince2
- Scrum, Agile
- DevOps Cooperation with employees, third parties, and offshore suppliers.
Essential Skills & Certifications
🔹 Salesforce proficiency:
- Certified Salesforce Architect/Developer/Admin roles.
- Progress toward additional certifications.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce OmniStudio/Vlocity.
🔹 Solution architecture expertise:
- Extensive experience in large-scale enterprise projects.
- Strong background in either financial services or government regulations.
- Proven ability to deliver strategies, roadmaps, and architectural plans.
🔹 Architecture innovation & methodology:
- Consistent adherence to enterprise architecture principles.
- Converts project-specific needs into reusable generic architecture models.
🔹 Certifications & tool experience:
- Certified in TOGAF and ITIL.
- Practical experience with architecture tools like:
- Erwin
- Solidatus
- Proficiency in UML.
🔹 Technical & commercial awareness:
- Broad knowledge of modern technology trends.
- Understands IT for services and follows best-practice application architectures.
- Ability to interpret supplier proposals, weighing trade-offs to achieve cost-effective solutions.
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🔹 Risk & compliance management:
- Managing architectural risk from initiation through to live run operations.
- Ensuring stability, scalability, and compliance in all environments.
Benefits
Standard Offerings
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Hybrid working model: 40% office requirement/month (50% minimum for senior leaders). (Changing from September: 50% minimum – 60% for Directors/Executive Directors).
- Pension scheme (non-contributory, 8–12% via employer, depending on age).
- Life assurance coverage of up to eight times salary.
- Private healthcare (via Bupa).
- Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 support).
- 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
Flexible Benefits
Benefits can be customised to suit individual needs.
Our Values & Culture
We foster a diverse, inclusion-focused culture that values fairness, innovation, and individuality.
Commitments:
✔ Anti-discrimination and equality initiative. ✔ Supportive environments for employees. ✔ Encouraging flexible working (e.g., part-time, job sharing).
Initiatives:
- Disability Confident Employer Sponsorships: Candidates with long-term disabilities/condition in line with minimal criteria will progress through our process.
- Dedicated support for candidates with accessibility needs.
Useful Information
- Advert Closing Date: 16th July
- CV Review/Shortlisting: 17th July
- In-person Interviews: Week commencing 27th July
- Informational: Reach out to your recruiter during screening to discuss availability and adjustments.
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