Job Specifications
Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.
We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We're a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!
The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.
Hybrid Working
We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.
Requirements
As an IAM analyst you will play a critical role in the management and optimisation of Starling's identity lifecycle and across a variety of SaaS and bespoke identity tooling. You will serve as a key liaison to the wider business, bridging the gap between high-level security requirements and practical, automated solutions.
No one day is the same as any other. On any given day you might be:
integrating systems with our identity provider for SSO;
configuring request and review policies in our access governance system;
analysing roles and permissions in third-party services and mapping these to teams and job roles for birthright access;
helping end users with complex access issues;
defining standards and policies relating to identity and access management;
taking ownership of or contributing to projects to improve the bank's identity security posture
We understand the importance of knowledge and expertise remaining current and you'll help us to continue making things better through research, design and implementation of new solutions, including automation. You will actively contribute to us remaining current with Cyber and Identity trends through research and development. Everyone's opinion matters and we embrace a range of perspectives through inception to delivery.
We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.
Essential
Strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Good understanding of identity concepts, including authentication protocols, Identity Lifecycle Management, Privileged Access Management, Role Based Access Control and Identity Governance
Understanding of risk management, including quantification and remediation
A genuine enthusiasm for identifying security problems and building solutions to them
Desirable
Experience of design and delivery related to identity management systems, e.g. Okta, Entra ID, Ping, etc
Experience of design and delivery related to identity governance systems, e.g. Sailpoint, Saviynt, ConductorOne, etc.
Ability to write code (e.g. automating tasks using scripting languages such as Python)
Understanding of authentication protocols (e.g. SAML, OIDC)
Strong general cybersecurity domain knowledge, including cloud security (GCP, AWS).
Experience of fulfilling a client facing security consulting role or business facing security role
Responsibilities
Independently run and contribute to Identity-related projects
Design and implement identity solutions across both a variety of SaaS and bespoke identity tooling
Collaborating with engineering and business stakeholders on Identity-related initiatives, including:
Reviewing and analysing proposed technical solutions and business processes to identify appropriate security controls
Bridging the gap between complex business needs and technical execution by documenting clear, actionable identity requirements for engineering teams
Advising on remediation of security issues and processes to address root causes
Provide troubleshooting as well as disaster recovery planning and tests
Maintain identity and acces
About the Company
Hello, we’re Starling.
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We built Britain’s first digital bank.
One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too).
We’re changing banking for good.
Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them ...
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