Senior Identity & Access Engineer

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Senior Identity & Access Engineer

Job no: 502266
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London - Hybrid, Leeds - Hybrid
Categories: Information Security

Your new role At NewDay

Reporting direct to the Identity & Access Senior Manager, you are an integral part of how we keep NewDay safe and a trusted security partner. Your role is crucial to enabling people to securely access the right systems and services at the right time. With a focus on continuous improvement, and automation, carrying out Identity and Access practices, and access provisioning processes on in scope systems and acting as an SME to peers. You will enable and ensure appropriate governance for role-based access for our core platforms and business applications.

About NewDay

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

• Deliver innovative solutions, drive automation and continuously improve ways of working
• Deliver against a roadmap for governing identities, access and EntraID for NewDay platforms
• Enhance frameworks and practices to ensure Identity and access management good practice across the Azure and AWS cloud platforms, and core applications
• Working with supplier to perform pperational activities so that access to platforms and applications is in line with agreed policy.
• Define and implement metrics and measures that demonstrate delivery of our objectives

What you'll bring

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:

• Comprehensive expertise in identity and access management practices on the Microsoft Azure platform / EntraID in a multi-tenant environment
• Experienced on identity and access frameworks and industry standards
• Experience of a DevOps environment and skilled in Agile working practices
• Good understanding of standards for authentication, authorisation, access administration and governance
• Effective communication to support a range of business stakeholders and partners
• Consistent track record in delivering solutions and demonstrating customer outcomes in a regulated environment

And would love you to know or learn:

• Security engineering practices across Azure and AWS cloud platform environments
• Support for Microsoft security certifications
• Payment Card Industry data security standards

Advertised: 17 May 2024 GMT Daylight Time
Applications close: 17 Jun 2024 GMT Daylight Time