How to Apply to FIS UK

19 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 384 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • FIS UK is a wholly owned subsidiary of NYSE-listed Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (ticker FIS), headquartered for the parent in Jacksonville, Florida, and employs approximately 6,000 people across London, Solihull, Nottingham, and Glasgow.
  • The merchant acquiring business that historically traded as Worldpay was spun off to GTCR on 31 January 2024 in a transaction valuing it at approximately USD 18.5 billion, with FIS retaining a since-reduced minority stake. Worldpay is now a separate company with its own careers site at careers.worldpay.com and a separate Workday tenant.
  • FIS today is organised around two segments: Banking Solutions (core banking, payments, lending, deposit, card management, fraud) and Capital Markets Solutions (trading, clearing, settlement, custody, treasury, risk, collateral, asset servicing). UK delivery is augmented by India-based engineering and operations.
  • Stephanie Ferris has been CEO since late 2022 and was confirmed in 2023, succeeding Gary Norcross. The 2023 to 2025 period included the Worldpay separation and the Future Forward cost programme.
  • All FIS hiring runs through a single global Workday tenant at fisglobal.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com, surfaced via careers.fisglobal.com. One profile covers Banking Solutions, Capital Markets Solutions, and corporate functions across the UK, US, India, and EMEA.
  • Compensation is competitive against UK enterprise software, banking technology, and broadline consultancies, and fair within UK fintech. It sits below Wall Street investment banks, top US-headquartered hyperscalers in London, and top London hedge funds.
  • Strongest UK franchises are Banking Solutions modernisation (Profile, Modus, Bankware, IBS, FIS Card Suite, Open Payment Framework), Capital Markets Solutions (Front Arena, Apex Collateral, Quantum, Ambit, Adaptiv), and the regulated change capability across UK FCA and PRA-regulated clients.
  • Interviews are structured, professional, and substantive. Expect a recruiter call, a hiring-manager competency interview, a technical or case round (live coding, system design, product case, sales role-play, or operations scenario), and a final panel.
  • Hybrid working is standard in non-trading, non-operations roles, typically two to three days per week in the relevant office. London is the default for capital markets and corporate; Solihull, Nottingham, and Glasgow are the centres of gravity for Banking Solutions delivery, engineering, and shared services.
  • Confirm whether the role requires BPSS or SC security clearance for UK government banking clients early. Clearance can add four to ten weeks to the start date.

About FIS UK

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., operating as FIS, is a Florida-headquartered (Jacksonville) financial technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker FIS and a constituent of the S&P 500. The UK business, FIS UK, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the US parent and one of the firm's largest international operations. It employs approximately 6,000 people across four principal sites: a London City office that historically housed both the corporate UK presence and the capital markets technology group, a major delivery and operations campus at Blythe Valley Park in Solihull near Birmingham, a long-established banking technology centre in Nottingham (rooted in the company's prior acquisitions of Sungard, Clear2Pay, and the legacy ACI heritage absorbed via Sungard's Apex/Ambit franchises), and a Glasgow site focused on capital markets, risk, and treasury technology. FIS UK serves the substantial majority of UK retail and commercial banks, building societies, asset managers, hedge funds, custodians, and insurers in some capacity, whether through core banking platforms (Profile, Bankware, Modus, IBS), payments rails, capital markets back-office systems (Front Arena, Cleared Derivatives, Front, Apex Collateral), treasury and risk software (Quantum, Integrity SaaS, Ambit Focus), wealth management platforms, and a long list of regulatory and operational utilities. The most important fact for any UK candidate to internalise before applying is that on 31 January 2024 FIS completed the spin-off of Worldpay, the merchant acquiring and payments business that had been the dominant share of FIS revenue and the dominant face of the firm in London after the 2019 acquisition for approximately USD 43 billion. Worldpay was sold to private-equity firm GTCR in a transaction that valued the merchant business at roughly USD 18.5 billion, with FIS retaining a minority stake (approximately 45 percent at separation, since reduced) and Worldpay operating as a standalone independent company with its own brand, leadership under CEO Charles Drucker, separate London offices (principally The Walbrook Building and adjacent City sites previously under joint occupation), separate careers site at careers.worldpay.com, and a separate Workday tenant. If you are looking for a job at the merchant acquiring business that formerly traded as Worldpay from RBS, Worldpay Group plc, Vantiv-Worldpay, and FIS Worldpay Merchant Solutions, the company you are looking for is no longer FIS and is no longer hiring through fis.com or wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FIS_Careers. It is the standalone Worldpay, hiring through worldpay.com and its own ATS. Confusing the two is the single most common source of wasted applications by UK candidates in 2025 and 2026. What FIS UK retains and is now organised around is two principal segments: Banking Solutions, which sells and operates core banking platforms, digital banking, payments processing, lending, deposit, card management, and fraud systems to banks, building societies, and credit unions across the UK and EMEA; and Capital Markets Solutions, which sells and operates trading, clearing, settlement, custody, treasury, risk, collateral, and asset-servicing software to investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, custodians, and corporate treasuries. A smaller corporate function covers finance, legal, HR, and technology shared services. UK delivery for both segments is supported by significant offshore engineering and operations capacity in India (principally Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, and Gurgaon), and many UK roles will work in a UK-led, India-augmented model with daily handover calls and shared agile cadence. Leadership and recent history matter for any candidate. Stephanie Ferris became CEO of FIS in late 2022 and was confirmed in a permanent capacity through 2023, succeeding Gary Norcross. She inherited a company under serious shareholder pressure following the underperformance of the Worldpay acquisition, and her first priority was the strategic separation of Worldpay, completed in early 2024. The 2023 and 2024 calendar years included substantial restructuring, headcount reduction across both the legacy FIS franchises and the corporate centre, a programme called Future Forward focused on cost discipline and operational simplification, and a refocusing of investment on the Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions segments rather than on merchant acquiring. UK hiring through this period was uneven: the merchant business that left with Worldpay shed UK roles in the run-up to separation that did not transfer, while the retained FIS UK business has hired more steadily into Banking Solutions modernisation, Capital Markets product engineering, and regulated change programmes across UK clients. Competitively, FIS UK sits in a crowded enterprise financial-software market. Its principal global peers are Fiserv (the closest direct comparator, similar dual focus on banking and merchant before its own portfolio shifts), Jack Henry (community and mid-tier US banks), and Broadridge (capital markets and investor communications). In the UK and EMEA specifically the peer set widens to include Temenos (cloud-native core banking, particularly strong in continental Europe and the UK building society segment), Finastra (the London-headquartered combination of Misys and D+H, FIS's most direct UK rival in core banking, payments, lending, and treasury software), Tata Consultancy Services BFS (BaNCS core banking platform plus large UK delivery presence), Infosys Finacle (core banking, very strong in India and growing in the UK), Mambu (cloud-native fintech core), Thought Machine (UK-headquartered cloud core, increasingly winning UK building society and challenger bank deals), 10x Banking (London-based cloud core), and across capital markets the niche specialists ION Group, Murex, Calypso (Adenza), Bloomberg AIM, Charles River, BlackRock Aladdin, and SS and C. FIS competes by breadth and incumbency rather than by frontier modernity; the company's core platforms are powerful, deeply embedded, and in many cases on multi-decade architectures that are being modernised in flight. UK candidates should expect to work on real production systems running real money, often with mainframe-adjacent or legacy estate components alongside cloud-native modernisation work. Compensation is competitive against UK enterprise software, banking technology, and broadline consultancies, and is broadly fair within UK fintech, but it sits below the levels paid by Wall Street investment banks, the top US-headquartered hyperscalers operating in London, and the highest-paying London hedge funds. Working culture is English-primary, professional, and process-oriented, reflecting the regulated nature of the customer base and the US public-company parent. Hybrid working is standard in non-trading, non-operations roles, typically two to three days per week in the relevant office, with team-by-team variation. If you are looking for a frontier startup environment, FIS UK is not it. If you are looking for a substantive role at one of the largest financial technology employers in the UK, with real client-facing impact on how UK banks and asset managers actually operate, with a clear post-Worldpay strategic focus, FIS UK is a serious place to build a career.

Application Process

  1. 1
    Confirm which FIS entity you are applying to

    Confirm which FIS entity you are applying to. After the January 2024 separation, FIS and Worldpay are two different companies with two different careers sites and two different Workday tenants. If the role is in merchant acquiring, payment terminal services, ecommerce gateway, or merchant onboarding, that is the standalone Worldpay business and you should apply at careers.worldpay.com. If the role is in core banking, capital markets technology, treasury and risk software, regulatory technology, or corporate functions for FIS, apply at careers.fisglobal.com. The single most common UK candidate mistake in 2025 and 2026 is applying to the wrong company.

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    Start at the canonical FIS careers site

    Start at the canonical FIS careers site. The current public-facing entry point is careers.fisglobal.com, which routes into the FIS Workday tenant. Filter by country United Kingdom and by city (London, Solihull, Nottingham, Glasgow, or Remote-UK) before browsing requisitions. The London listings include both Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions roles; Solihull is heavier on Banking Solutions delivery, operations, and shared services; Nottingham is heavier on Banking Solutions engineering and product; Glasgow is heavier on Capital Markets Solutions engineering and risk technology.

  3. 3
    Create a single Workday candidate profile and reuse it across applications

    Create a single Workday candidate profile and reuse it across applications. Workday tenants are isolated between employers, so your profile at FIS does not carry across to Fiserv, Finastra, Temenos, or any other employer. Within the FIS tenant, however, one profile lets you apply to multiple postings without re-keying your work history. Upload an ATS-readable PDF or .docx, then carefully correct the parsed Experience, Education, and Skills fields by hand. UK date formats and UK placenames sometimes confuse the parser.

  4. 4
    For Banking Solutions roles, identify the platform family in your cover letter

    For Banking Solutions roles, identify the platform family in your cover letter. FIS sells multiple core banking platforms including Profile, Modus, Bankware, IBS, and Horizon, plus card management (FIS Card Suite, formerly OmniPay-derived modules), digital banking (Digital One), payments (Open Payment Framework), lending (CleartouchA, ServicingDirector), and fraud and risk (FCS, Memento). Stating the platform you have actually worked with materially changes which hiring manager sees your CV.

  5. 5
    For Capital Markets Solutions roles, identify the product family in your cover l

    For Capital Markets Solutions roles, identify the product family in your cover letter. FIS sells trading and order management (Front Arena, Front), cleared derivatives processing (Cleared Derivatives Workstation), collateral management (Apex Collateral, Apex Securities Finance), securities finance (Apex SF, Loanet), risk management (Adaptiv, formerly Reech), treasury (Quantum, Integrity SaaS, Ambit Treasury Management, Ambit Focus), regulatory reporting (Ambit Risk and Performance, Protegent), wealth management (XSP, AddVantage), and asset servicing utilities. Naming the actual product on the requisition is essential.

  6. 6
    Use precise UK terminology in screening questions

    Use precise UK terminology in screening questions. The firm asks structured questions about right to work in the UK (settled status, pre-settled, ILR, Skilled Worker visa, Global Talent, Graduate visa, Tier 1 dependant, EU Settlement Scheme), notice period (1, 3, or 6 months is the typical range across the UK levels FIS hires at), salary expectation in pounds sterling, willingness to travel to client sites, and security clearance status if the role supports a UK government banking client (BPSS, SC, or higher). Answer honestly. Misrepresentation surfaces at reference and background-check stage.

  7. 7
    Expect a recruiter screen within 7 to 14 working days for shortlisted CVs

    Expect a recruiter screen within 7 to 14 working days for shortlisted CVs. FIS UK moves at standard UK enterprise-software pace, slower than challenger fintechs and faster than UK regulators. The first conversation is typically a 30-minute Microsoft Teams call with an internal recruiter (the FIS Talent Acquisition team is partly UK-based and partly in India and supports a follow-the-sun model) who confirms motivation, salary, notice, right-to-work status, and the specific platform or product fluency that matches the requisition.

  8. 8
    Prepare for two to four interviews after the recruiter screen

    Prepare for two to four interviews after the recruiter screen. Technology roles typically include a hiring-manager competency interview, a technical interview with senior engineers (live coding on a shared editor, system-design conversation, or platform-specific deep dive depending on the role), and a final-stage interview with a leadership or skip-level stakeholder. Product roles include a competency interview, a product-thinking case (often based on a real Banking Solutions or Capital Markets Solutions client scenario), and a final stakeholder round. Sales and pre-sales roles include a discovery role-play, a solution presentation, and a final commercial conversation. Operations and risk roles emphasise process, compliance, and incident management scenarios.

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    If you are applying to the FIS UK graduate scheme or the apprenticeship programm

    If you are applying to the FIS UK graduate scheme or the apprenticeship programme, target the autumn application window. FIS recruits graduates and apprentices across Banking Solutions, Capital Markets Solutions, technology, operations, finance, and HR, with intakes principally into Solihull, Nottingham, and Glasgow rather than London. Online aptitude tests, a recorded video interview, and an assessment day (usually held at the relevant office or virtually) are standard stages.

  10. 10
    Negotiate based on UK enterprise-software and UK financial-services benchmarks

    Negotiate based on UK enterprise-software and UK financial-services benchmarks. Offers typically include a base salary, a target annual bonus expressed as a percentage of base (5 to 25 percent depending on level and segment), an employer pension contribution under the FIS UK pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, and 25 to 30 days of annual leave excluding statutory bank holidays. Senior roles may include restricted stock units in the NYSE-listed parent (FIS) on a multi-year vesting schedule. Counter-offering on base, bonus target, and RSU grant is normal and respected. Pushing for US bulge-bracket investment-bank compensation, for top hedge-fund compensation, or for top US-tech London compensation will end the conversation politely. FIS pays competitively for what it is, not for what it is not.

Resume Tips for FIS UK

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Lead with quantified outcomes in pounds, dollars, basis points, throughput, late

Lead with quantified outcomes in pounds, dollars, basis points, throughput, latency, or accuracy. A bullet that reads 'Worked on core banking modernisation' is invisible in a Workday parser and a recruiter sweep. 'Led migration of GBP 18bn deposit book from legacy IBS to FIS Modus on AWS, reduced batch run window from 7 hours to 90 minutes, sustained 99.99 percent availability across 14-month programme' is the level of specificity the firm reads.

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Use UK English spelling consistently

Use UK English spelling consistently. organisation, recognise, optimisation, behaviour, programme, centre, analyse. Mixing US and UK spellings within a single CV is a small but visible signal of carelessness in a UK office of a US-headquartered firm where local hiring managers are reading UK-context CVs.

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Name the FIS or competitor platforms and products you have actually shipped agai

Name the FIS or competitor platforms and products you have actually shipped against. For banking technology candidates: Profile, Modus, Bankware, IBS, Horizon, FIS Card Suite, Digital One, Open Payment Framework, CleartouchA, ServicingDirector, FCS, Memento on the FIS side; Finastra Fusion, Temenos T24 / Transact, TCS BaNCS, Infosys Finacle, Mambu, Thought Machine Vault, 10x SuperCore on the competitor side. For capital markets: Front Arena, Cleared Derivatives, Apex Collateral, Apex SF, Loanet, Adaptiv, Quantum, Integrity SaaS, Ambit Focus, Ambit Treasury Management, Ambit Risk and Performance, Protegent, XSP, AddVantage on the FIS side; Murex, Calypso/Adenza, ION, Bloomberg AIM, Charles River, Aladdin, SS and C on the competitor side. Specificity beats jargon.

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State your UK regulatory and compliance context where relevant

State your UK regulatory and compliance context where relevant. Many FIS UK clients are FCA and PRA regulated and the work touches Consumer Duty, Operational Resilience (PS21/3), DORA (for cross-border EU clients), PSR settlement risk, Basel 3.1 / Basel IV implementation, MiFID II reporting, EMIR, SFTR, FINREP, COREP, Solvency II, and the broader CRD V landscape. State which you have worked on in production, not which you have read about.

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List qualifications with the awarding body and date

List qualifications with the awarding body and date. CFA Charterholder, CFA Institute, year. PRM, PRMIA, year. FRM, GARP, year. ACA, ICAEW, year. ACCA, year. CIMA, year. ITIL Foundation/Practitioner, year. PRINCE2 Practitioner, year. AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, year. Microsoft Azure certifications, year. Confluent Certified Developer, year. Avoid acronyms without context, especially for non-UK qualifications.

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For technology roles, state the stack precisely and the production scale honestl

For technology roles, state the stack precisely and the production scale honestly. FIS UK's technology estate runs significant Java (Spring Boot, Quarkus, mainframe-adjacent J2EE), C# .NET (substantial in capital markets product engineering), C++ (in selected high-performance modules), Python (data engineering, automation, quant utilities), TypeScript and React/Angular front ends, AWS and Azure cloud workloads (multi-cloud is real, not aspirational), Kafka and Confluent, Oracle and Db2 (still very common in core banking), PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Kubernetes, OpenShift in regulated environments, and z/OS-adjacent components in the deepest legacy estate. State which you have shipped to production at scale, not just touched in a tutorial.

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For sales, pre-sales, and account roles, lead with deal sizes, named clients (wh

For sales, pre-sales, and account roles, lead with deal sizes, named clients (where confidentiality permits), retention rates, gross sales, and net flows. Banking technology and capital markets technology sales cycles run 9 to 24 months, ACV ranges from low six figures to high seven figures, and the buyer landscape (CIO, COO, CFO, Chief Risk Officer, Head of Treasury, Head of Capital Markets Operations) is narrow and well known. Show that you have actually sold into UK and EMEA banks, asset managers, or insurers, not generic enterprise software.

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For risk, treasury, and capital markets product roles, demonstrate fluency in th

For risk, treasury, and capital markets product roles, demonstrate fluency in the actual instruments and workflows. Listed and OTC derivatives, repo and securities lending, FX spot/forward/swap/NDF, fixed income cash and futures, IRS/OIS curves, SOFR and SONIA fallbacks post-LIBOR, central counterparty clearing (LCH, ICE, Eurex, CME), bilateral collateral under the Uncleared Margin Rules, ISDA SIMM, FRTB IMA versus SA, IRRBB, LCR/NSFR, the difference between front-office, middle-office, and back-office responsibilities. Imprecision here is the single fastest way to fail a Capital Markets interview.

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Keep the CV to two pages and use a clean, single-column layout in Arial, Calibri

Keep the CV to two pages and use a clean, single-column layout in Arial, Calibri, or a similar sans-serif. Avoid photos, infographics, two-column designs, headers and footers, and tables that the Workday parser will mangle. A photo on a CV is acceptable in some European markets but is not standard in the UK and is unnecessary for FIS UK applications.

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Mirror the language of the job description

Mirror the language of the job description. If the posting says 'Capital Markets Solutions,' do not write 'Investment Banking Tech.' If it says 'Banking Solutions Profile platform engineer,' do not write 'core banking developer.' Workday matches keywords, recruiters filter on them, and consistency between your CV and the requisition makes the difference at first sift.

ATS System: Workday Recruiting (FIS tenant, fisglobal.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com)

FIS runs a single global Workday Recruiting tenant for substantially all corporate, technology, product, sales, operations, and risk hiring across the United States, the United Kingdom, India, EMEA, and APAC. The candidate-facing site is reachable from careers.fisglobal.com and resolves to the FIS Workday tenant at fisglobal.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com, with the standard Workday URL pattern fisglobal.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FIS_Careers (the public external careers site) and parallel slugs for internal mobility, university recruiting, and contingent worker engagement. After the January 2024 separation of Worldpay, the merchant business is hired through a separate Worldpay Workday tenant at the careers.worldpay.com brand and is no longer accessible from the FIS tenant; UK candidates should treat the two as fully separate ATS environments. The candidate experience inside the FIS Workday tenant is standard Workday: register an account using a personal email (recruiters strongly prefer not seeing in-progress applications routed through current-employer email addresses, especially for competitor or client employers), upload a CV for parsing, manually correct the parsed Experience, Education, Skills, Languages, and Certifications fields, complete employer-specific screening questions (right to work in the UK, salary expectation in pounds sterling, notice period, source of application, security clearance status, willingness to travel), and submit. Workday auto-saves drafts so a half-completed application can be returned to from any device. Status updates are pushed to the Workday inbox and email. Recruiters at FIS use Workday's filtering and prospect tools heavily, and there is a global Talent Acquisition team that operates a follow-the-sun model with UK, US, and India coverage, so structured-field completeness matters more than the prose of the CV alone. The system stores an internal feedback log against your profile, so withdrawing professionally and re-applying later for a different role is preferable to ghosting an interview.

  • Use a single-column, ATS-friendly PDF or .docx CV in a standard font. Avoid tables, text boxes, headers and footers, columns, and graphics that Workday's parser will mangle.
  • After upload, click into every parsed Experience entry and correct the dates, employer name, location, and bullets. UK date formats (DD/MM/YYYY) and UK placenames sometimes need manual fix-up.
  • Complete the Education, Skills, Languages, and Certifications sections as structured data, not just inside the CV text. FIS recruiters filter candidates on these fields directly.
  • Answer every screening question, including right-to-work, salary in pounds sterling, notice period, security clearance status if asked, and source-of-application. Unanswered fields read as low effort and are sometimes used as a tiebreaker at first sift.
  • Mirror the job description's exact phrasing. If the requisition says 'Banking Solutions' or 'Capital Markets Solutions,' use those phrases verbatim in the relevant CV bullets.
  • Apply to a small, targeted set of roles, not a scattergun list. The Workday tenant tracks your application volume and recruiters can see the full list of roles you have submitted to inside the tenant.
  • Save your CV file with a clean name, for example 'Surname_Forename_CV_2026.pdf'. Avoid version numbers, draft markers, and dates of birth in the file name.
  • Use a personal email rather than your current-employer email for the application, particularly if your current employer is an FIS competitor or client.
  • If you applied previously and the role lapsed without an offer, you can re-apply after a reasonable interval (typically six months for the same team). Update the CV materially before resubmitting.
  • Do not also apply for the role through Worldpay's separate careers site assuming it might be the same hiring funnel. Since 31 January 2024 they are different companies with different ATSs.

Interview Culture

Interviews at FIS UK are structured, professional, and substantive.

The pace is measured rather than aggressive. Interviewers are competent and prepared; the firm has invested in hiring-manager training following the post-Worldpay restructuring, and managers in Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions are explicit that they want predictable, fair, well-run interview loops. The bar is high on technical correctness, regulatory and product fluency, and cultural fit with a US-listed enterprise-software company operating in regulated UK financial services, but the experience does not aim to intimidate the candidate. A typical experienced-hire process for a Technology, Product, Sales, Operations, Risk, or Corporate role runs across three to five conversations. The first is a 30-minute call with an internal recruiter, almost always conducted on Microsoft Teams (FIS is a Microsoft 365 shop), which confirms motivation, salary expectations in pounds sterling, notice period (1, 3, or 6 months are the typical UK ranges), right-to-work status, and any security clearance considerations for UK government banking clients. The second is a competency interview with the hiring manager, typically 45 to 60 minutes, structured around the firm's leadership behaviours and the specific role's success profile. The third is a deeper technical or case-based round. For technology roles this is a live coding exercise on a shared editor (HackerRank, CoderPad, or Microsoft Live Share have all been used) followed by a system-design conversation grounded in a realistic Banking Solutions or Capital Markets Solutions scenario. For product roles this is a product-thinking case based on a real client scenario. For sales and pre-sales roles this is a discovery role-play and solution presentation. For operations and risk roles this is a process and incident-management scenario walkthrough. The fourth round is typically a panel with two or three senior leaders who probe leadership experience, regulatory awareness, and fit with the broader department. The fifth, when it occurs, is a brief conversation with a segment leader, an executive sponsor, or a UK Country Lead for senior or sensitive roles. Questions to expect include: 'Walk me through a complex production incident on a regulated banking platform and what you learned from the post-incident review,' 'Tell me about a time you had to deliver a regulatory programme on a fixed deadline with a UK FCA-regulated client,' 'Describe a situation where you disagreed with a colleague on a system-design choice for a core banking platform and how you resolved it,' 'What does Operational Resilience PS21/3 mean for an FIS Banking Solutions client and for the technology choices we make,' 'How would you modernise an on-premise Profile installation to a cloud-hosted Modus configuration without disrupting the client's regulatory reporting,' 'Why FIS rather than Finastra, Temenos, TCS BaNCS, Infosys Finacle, or one of the cloud-native challengers like Thought Machine, Mambu, or 10x at this point in your career,' and 'How do you think about working alongside an India-based engineering team in a follow-the-sun model.' The 'why us' question is taken seriously. A generic answer about a great brand will not pass. A strong answer references the post-Worldpay strategic refocus, the specific Banking Solutions or Capital Markets Solutions franchise the candidate is joining, and a credible, honest motivation for joining a large US-listed financial-software incumbent rather than a smaller, faster-moving challenger. Dress code is business attire for any final-stage panel at the London office and for any client-facing meeting at a UK bank, asset manager, or building society site. Smart-casual is acceptable for technology and operations rounds at Solihull, Nottingham, and Glasgow, and increasingly common even in London for non-client-facing engineering interviews. When uncertain, default one notch more formal than you think the role requires. References and background checks are run by a third-party vendor (the FIS UK standard at the time of writing has been HireRight or an equivalent global vendor) and cover the standard UK financial-services-adjacent battery: identity verification, right-to-work, criminal record disclosure (DBS Standard, DBS Enhanced, or Disclosure Scotland depending on the role and office), credit history for finance and treasury roles, three to five years of employment history verification, and education and professional qualification verification. Many client-facing roles also require BPSS clearance for UK government banking customers and some require SC clearance, which can add four to ten weeks to the start date. Misstatements about employment dates, qualifications, or criminal record disclosure surface at this stage and are dealbreakers.

What FIS UK Looks For

  • Genuine motivation to join a post-restructuring, post-Worldpay-separation FIS rather than a 'pre-spin' FIS or the standalone Worldpay. The interviewers are well aware that many UK candidates are confused about which company is which, and they value candidates who have read the FY2024 and FY2025 annual reports and still want the FIS Banking Solutions or Capital Markets Solutions role specifically.
  • Platform and product specificity. Naming Profile, Modus, Bankware, IBS, Front Arena, Apex Collateral, Quantum, Ambit Focus, or Adaptiv (and the relevant competitor platforms you have worked with) tells the recruiter what hiring manager to send the CV to.
  • Regulatory literacy for UK financial services. FCA and PRA expectations, Operational Resilience PS21/3, Consumer Duty, DORA for EU cross-border clients, MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR, Basel 3.1, FRTB, Solvency II depending on the role family.
  • Quantified track record. Engineering metrics in throughput, latency, availability, and incident reduction. Programme metrics in budget, scope, and on-time delivery. Sales metrics in deal size, win rate, retention, and gross flows. Operations metrics in SLA performance and accuracy.
  • Strong written English. Internal and client artefacts (architecture decision records, RFP responses, change-control documentation, run books, incident reports) are read carefully. Fluent business English is non-negotiable; additional fluency in major European languages (German, French, Spanish, Italian) is a clear advantage for EMEA-facing roles.
  • Fluency working in a UK-led, India-augmented delivery model. Many roles span UK product or business analysts, UK or US architects, and Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, or Gurgaon engineering teams. Candidates who have run distributed teams across timezones with respect and discipline are weighted favourably.
  • Resilience and ownership in a cost-constrained environment. The Future Forward programme and broader post-Worldpay reset have meant flat or shrinking budgets in some areas. Candidates who can deliver outcomes with stable budgets, rather than only with growing ones, are weighted favourably.
  • Cultural fit with a US-listed enterprise-software company operating in regulated UK financial services. Predictability, process discipline, customer focus, and professional craft are valued. Theatrical individualism, frontier-tech hubris, and aggressive internal politics are not.
  • Right to work in the UK is mandatory for UK-based roles. The firm holds a Home Office Skilled Worker sponsor licence and sponsors visas for senior, scarce, or specialist roles where the requirement is justified, but sponsorship is decided role by role and is not a default. Confirm sponsorship eligibility with the recruiter early.
  • Willingness to engage with a long-running modernisation roadmap. FIS Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions estates include deeply embedded legacy systems alongside cloud-native modernisation. Candidates who can credibly work across both, and who do not refuse to engage with the legacy on principle, are the candidates who get hired.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is FIS the same company as Worldpay in 2026?
No. The Worldpay merchant acquiring business was spun off to private-equity firm GTCR on 31 January 2024 in a transaction valuing it at approximately USD 18.5 billion. FIS retained a minority stake at separation that has since been reduced. Worldpay operates as a fully independent standalone company under CEO Charles Drucker, with separate London offices, a separate brand, a separate careers site at careers.worldpay.com, and a separate Workday tenant. If you are looking for a role at the merchant business, apply at Worldpay, not at FIS.
What does FIS UK actually do after the Worldpay separation?
FIS today is organised around two segments. Banking Solutions sells and operates core banking, digital banking, payments, lending, deposit, card management, and fraud systems to banks, building societies, and credit unions across the UK and EMEA. Capital Markets Solutions sells and operates trading, clearing, settlement, custody, treasury, risk, collateral, and asset-servicing software to investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, custodians, and corporate treasuries. UK corporate functions support both.
Where are FIS UK's main offices?
Four principal sites. London (City office, predominantly capital markets, corporate, sales, and account management). Solihull at Blythe Valley Park near Birmingham (Banking Solutions delivery, operations, and shared services). Nottingham (Banking Solutions engineering, product, and a long-established UK technology heritage). Glasgow (Capital Markets Solutions engineering, treasury, and risk technology).
What ATS does FIS use?
Workday Recruiting. The candidate site is reachable from careers.fisglobal.com and resolves to fisglobal.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com, typically under the FIS_Careers slug. After the January 2024 separation, Worldpay uses a separate Workday tenant under the worldpay.com brand and is no longer accessible from the FIS tenant. Treat them as fully separate ATS environments.
Who is the CEO of FIS?
Stephanie Ferris. She became CEO in late 2022 and was confirmed in the role in 2023, succeeding Gary Norcross. Her early priorities included the strategic separation of Worldpay (completed January 2024), the Future Forward cost programme, and the refocus of investment on Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions.
How does FIS UK pay compared to peers?
Compensation is competitive against UK enterprise software, banking technology, and broadline consultancies (Capgemini, Accenture, Deloitte, EY for the technology lines), and broadly fair within UK fintech. It sits below Wall Street investment banks (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citi), the highest-paying London hedge funds (Citadel, Point72, Millennium, Brevan Howard), and the top US-headquartered hyperscalers in London (Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft) for comparable engineering levels. Pension is solid; private medical and 25 to 30 days of leave are standard; senior roles include FIS RSUs.
Does FIS UK sponsor work visas?
FIS UK holds a Home Office Skilled Worker sponsor licence and sponsors visas for senior, scarce, or specialist roles where the role and the candidate justify it. Sponsorship is decided role by role and is not the default. Confirm with the recruiter at the screening call rather than assuming. For most graduate-scheme and apprenticeship roles, candidates need pre-existing right to work in the UK.
How long does the FIS UK hiring process take?
Typically four to eight weeks from CV submission to verbal offer for experienced-hire roles, with three to five interview rounds in between. Written offer, references, and background checks add a further two to four weeks. Roles that require BPSS or SC clearance for UK government banking clients can add a further four to ten weeks to the start date. The graduate scheme and apprenticeship programme run on longer published timetables from autumn application opening to the following summer or autumn intake.
What is the dress code for an FIS UK interview?
Business attire for any final-stage panel in the London office and for any client-facing meeting at a UK bank, asset manager, or building society site. Smart-casual is acceptable for technology and operations interview rounds at Solihull, Nottingham, and Glasgow, and is increasingly common in London for non-client-facing engineering rounds. When uncertain, default one notch more formal than you think the role requires.
Does FIS UK offer hybrid working?
Yes, hybrid is standard in non-trading and non-operations roles, typically two to three days per week in the relevant office, with team-by-team variation. Some roles, particularly in operations, secure environments, and on-site client-embedded teams, require more office presence. Fully remote UK roles exist but are the exception rather than the rule.
Will I be working with India-based teams?
Very likely. UK delivery for both Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions is supported by significant offshore engineering and operations capacity in India, principally Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, and Gurgaon. Many UK roles work in a UK-led, India-augmented model with daily handover calls and shared agile cadence. Fluency working across timezones and cultures is read as a positive in the interview.
Is FIS UK a good place to work given the post-Worldpay reset?
It depends on what you want. The firm has been through real restructuring; the Future Forward cost programme has meant flat or shrinking budgets in some areas; the strategic narrative is no longer about hyper-growth in merchant payments. If you are looking for that, FIS today is not it. If you are looking for a substantive role at one of the largest financial technology employers in the UK, with deep installed-base relationships across UK retail and capital markets, with a clear post-Worldpay strategic focus on Banking Solutions and Capital Markets Solutions, with a humane working culture and a credible long-term modernisation agenda, FIS UK is a serious place to build a career.
Can I apply to multiple FIS UK roles at once?
Yes, but be selective. The FIS Workday tenant tracks all applications under your single profile and recruiters can see the full list of roles you have submitted to. Two or three carefully targeted, well-tailored applications across Banking Solutions, Capital Markets Solutions, or a corporate function are far stronger than ten generic submissions. If you genuinely fit two materially different roles in different segments, apply to both and reference the focus of each in the relevant cover letters.

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