2025 Leeds DTI Digital Hub Graduate Programme

About Us

At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face. We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA.

About the Programme

Programme Length: Two years (3 x 6-month rotations in home department, 1 x 6-month rotation outside of home)
Programme Type: Rotational

In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence, and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to regulate the firms more effectively we oversee.

DTI provides IT and Data services to the rest of the FCA. It is split in to three directorates: Data and Innovation, Digital Product and Technology. There are many diverse teams within these divisions who design and develop our technological solutions and manage and maintain technology and data so it’s available to across the FCA.

The Leeds Digi Hub graduate programme is part of DTI’s newest Directorate, Digital Product. This sits within the newest department, The Digital Hub.

The Digital Hub (DDH) is a growing FCA digital delivery capability, blending in-house digital teams with supplier partnerships to deliver and operate digital products at quality, pace and scale as well as supporting wider maturity initiatives such as Standardised Software Delivery, User Centred Design maturity and Agile ways of working.

What can I expect from the programme?

Delivery workstreams within DDH include Gateway forms delivering a new service for firms and individuals to apply to the FCA for regulatory transactions and The Register project which is modernising the way that the FCA publishes regulatory data for firms.

Our department is split in to several workstreams which include:

• Software Development
• Incident/Support Issues
• Supporting deployment, testing and documentation
• User Centre Design
• User Research
• ServiceNow application and support
• Content design

Please note you will be placed in one of the areas above when you join the programme with the opportunity to join another team after your first rotation.

Learning & Development

Throughout your time at the FCA, you will be able to advance your capabilities through training initiatives, such as e-learning, access to a wide range of self-service learning platforms and portals as well as access to regular seminars with suppliers, academics and thought leaders.

You’ll be supported by our experienced technologists, who will mentor you throughout your time on the graduate programme. You can also join one of our communities of practice related to your specialism. This means you will benefit from the knowledge of others and have opportunities to share your knowledge while developing critical business skills. Our graduates present their work to large audiences internally and externally, contribute to technology delivery for the wider organisation, and work together to ensure technology delivers our strategic outcomes.

What We Look for

Our staff have diverse backgrounds but are all passionate about technology. We don’t look for a degree in a specific discipline, but you need experience of development, delivery or management of technology and software. Within your degree, your hobbies or an internship you may have experience in areas such as building apps, developing websites, writing software, helping others setup up networks, or configuring technology platforms. Experience in Java and Angular is crucial to this role.

As well as your technical focus you should be customer-focused and commercially minded. You will need solid communication skills and an analytical mind. You will also need to be able to facilitate communication between the technical and non-technical – able to listen to the needs of all stakeholders and ensure each are understood.

What We Offer

We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

• providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
• maintaining a solid commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
• looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
• promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including:

• Base salary of £33,000
• Adaptable working options
• Private health care
• Career and family leave
• Non-contributory pension
• Charity and volunteering initiatives
• Minimum of 25 days’ holiday
• Sports and social clubs
• Free eye tests
• Subsidised restaurant
• Interest-free season ticket loans

Please note:

• We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed.
• Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software.
• Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university.
• Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study.
• We recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.