Financial Services Technology
RegTech Engineer Jobs & Careers
Looking for your next RegTech Engineer opportunity?
HOK Consulting connects RegTech Engineers with banks, FinTech businesses, RegTech providers and financial institutions developing technology for regulatory reporting, compliance, risk and financial crime requirements across permanent, contract and interim opportunities.
Whether your experience covers regulatory reporting platforms, compliance automation, data engineering, APIs, cloud technology, Python or Java, explore current opportunities or upload your CV to join HOK’s technology talent network.
Current RegTech Engineer Jobs
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What Does a RegTech Engineer Do?
RegTech Engineers design, build and maintain technology that helps financial services organisations meet regulatory, compliance and risk-management requirements.
The role can involve developing regulatory reporting systems, compliance workflows, data pipelines, rules engines, monitoring platforms and integrations that turn complex regulatory requirements into reliable technology processes.
RegTech Engineers often work alongside Software Engineers, Data Engineers, compliance specialists, risk teams, Business Analysts and financial services subject-matter experts to automate manual processes, improve data quality and respond to regulatory change.
RegTech Engineer Skills & Experience
The exact technical requirements vary between organisations and platforms, but RegTech Engineer roles commonly involve experience across areas such as:
- Regulatory Technology (RegTech)
- Regulatory Reporting
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Technology
- Compliance Automation
- Data Engineering
- Data Quality and Validation
- Python
- Java
- SQL
- APIs and REST Services
- Microservices
- Cloud Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Rules Engines
- Workflow Automation
- Financial Services Data
- Regulatory Change
- Auditability and Data Lineage
- AML and KYC Technology
RegTech Engineers may specialise in regulatory reporting, risk and compliance platforms, financial crime technology, data management or wider financial services automation.
Strong software and data engineering skills are particularly valuable alongside an understanding of regulated environments, because RegTech platforms must often provide accurate, traceable and auditable outputs against changing regulatory requirements.
Typical RegTech Engineer Responsibilities
- Designing and developing regulatory technology applications and services
- Automating regulatory reporting and compliance processes
- Building APIs and integrations between regulatory, risk and banking systems
- Developing data pipelines for regulatory and compliance reporting
- Implementing validation, reconciliation and data-quality controls
- Translating regulatory requirements into technical solutions
- Supporting rules engines and configurable compliance workflows
- Improving auditability, traceability and data lineage
- Investigating production issues affecting regulatory processes
- Supporting regulatory change and platform updates
- Working with compliance, risk, data and engineering teams
- Improving the scalability, resilience and security of RegTech platforms
Responsibilities vary depending on the organisation and whether the role focuses on regulatory reporting, compliance automation, risk technology, financial crime systems or broader RegTech product development.
RegTech Engineer Salary Expectations
RegTech Engineer salaries vary according to experience, location, software and data engineering expertise, regulatory domain knowledge and the complexity of the platform being developed.
Permanent RegTech Engineer
Around £66,250 per year
Current UK RegTech skills median
Contract RegTech Engineer
Around £613 per day
Current UK RegTech contract benchmark
Senior RegTech Engineers and professionals with specialist regulatory reporting, banking, data engineering, cloud or financial crime technology experience may command higher salaries or contract rates.
Salary information is provided as a general UK market guide. RegTech Engineer is not yet a consistently standardised job title, so these figures use current UK vacancies citing RegTech expertise rather than exact-title salary data.
RegTech Engineer Career Progression
RegTech Engineering can lead into senior engineering, architecture and specialist financial services technology positions.
Typical RegTech Engineer Career Path
Alternative Career Paths
RegTech Engineers may also progress into roles such as:
- FinTech Engineer
- Financial Crime Technology Analyst
- Data Engineer
- Software Architect
- Risk Technology Lead
- Engineering Manager
The right progression depends on whether you want to deepen your software and data engineering expertise, specialise in a particular regulatory domain, move into architecture or take responsibility for wider RegTech platforms and engineering teams.
Your Next Move
Looking for Your Next RegTech Engineer Opportunity?
If you’re considering your next permanent position, contract assignment or interim opportunity, send HOK Consulting your CV.
Tell us about the regulatory or compliance platforms you’ve worked on, the technologies you specialise in and the type of RegTech opportunity you’re looking for.
Specialist Recruitment
Financial Services Technology Recruitment
RegTech Engineering forms part of HOK Consulting’s wider Financial Services Technology recruitment expertise, connecting organisations with specialists across regulatory technology, banking, FinTech, payments, trading technology and financial services transformation.
Hiring?
Recruiting RegTech Engineers?
HOK Consulting supports banks, FinTech businesses, RegTech providers and financial institutions looking for experienced RegTech Engineers across permanent, contract and interim requirements.
Whether you’re building a regulatory reporting platform, automating compliance processes, responding to regulatory change or modernising risk and compliance technology, speak to HOK about your requirements.