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Senior Principal Architect - Identity & Access

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Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London - Hybrid
Categories: Information Security

About New Day:

We help people move forward with credit,
and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.

We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.

Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

 

Our dynamic NewDay culture:

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.

We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.

At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.

NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc

Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).

Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.

 

0-12 months you’ll deliver:

  • Thought leadership and identity and access designs and solutions for securing workforce and workload identity and access across our platforms.
  • A strategy and roadmap for identity and access management for NewDay platforms incorporating Zero Trust architecture and modern authentication principles, balancing industry standard methodologies with risk appetite
  • Close collaboration with our fantastic Architecture, Platform and Engineering teams to deliver practices aligned to the agreed identity and access architecture

 

What you’ll bring:

  • Extensive experience in modern identity and access security architectures and practices on the Microsoft Azure platform in a multi-tenant environment
  • In-depth understanding of cloud platform security practices and recognised standards and protocols for authentication, and authorisation
  • Applying Microsoft’s cyber security reference architecture and design principles to identity and access for users and workloads
  • Comprehensive experience of a DevOps environment and skilled in Agile working practices
  • Understands team needs, and develops colleagues through coaching and mentorship
  • Able to influence peers to do the right thing – provides convincing and persuasive rationale focusing on risk and “the why”
  • Diplomatic, emotionally thoughtful, listens and is open to other points of view
  • Able to communicate sophisticated technical topics in straightforward terms to a diverse group of team members
  • Challenges conventional thinking and demonstrates a “continuous improvement” demeanour which is building for tomorrow

 

And would love you to know or learn:

  • Worked in a FinTech organisation
  • Identity and access architectures for the AWS cloud platform environment
  • Microsoft security certifications

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