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Cognism

Director, Security Engineering & Operations

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London, UK
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Skills & Experience

Job roles: Security Engineer
Experience level: Leadership
Core skills considered: Cloud Security, Security Testing, Threat Detection, Security and Compliance, APIs
Other skills considered: CI/CD, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Building Teams

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Base salary: Undisclosed
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Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: Hybrid
Visa sponsorship: Not available

Job Description

At Cognism, the security of our data, our systems and our clients' systems is a business priority. Information security is embedded in the way we work, and we are driving a culture where the fastest path is the securest path. As the function continues to mature, we are now hiring for a Director of Security Engineering & Operations to report directly to our CISO. In this role you will own and drive the technical security strategy for Cognism's web and data products, as well as our corporate environment. You will be responsible for designing a security programme that protects our most sensitive assets: our data, our data fusion engine and the logic that powers it. As a trusted partner to our R&D leadership team you will help to define and drive the long-term security engineering maturity roadmap, driving alignment across engineering leaders, product leadership and IT. If you're energised by the idea of shaping measurable security processes and controls, from the ground up, aligning engineering around secure-by-design principles, and elevating operational excellence, then this is the role for you. This is a rare opportunity to define the technical security vision for a dataintensive product at a moment where AI, scale, and engineering velocity are creating new and exciting challenges. You will shape how Cognism builds securely for the next decade.


What success looks like

  • Delivered a unified security engineering roadmap aligned with engineering leadership.
  • Matured secure SDLC adoption across Web and Data engineering.
  • Improved MTTD/MTTR through stronger SOC operations.
  • Invested in and mentored a team with clear ownership, KPIs, and engineering trust.
  • Reduced engineering friction by creating pragmatic, developerfriendly guardrails

What You'll Own

Security Strategy & Engineering Integration

  • Define and own Cognism's technical security strategy that seeks to embed security-by-design within our web and data products, our data fusion engine and pipelines, and our corporate landscape. You will drive a strategy that is pragmatic, risk-ranked, and aligned to engineering velocity.
  • Work directly with product and technology leadership as a strategic partner. You will drive ownership and accountability, clearly agreeing ways of working between your team and product and technology teams.
  • Set and direct a secure SDLC strategy that engineers engage with, coaching and mentoring our application security engineer with running our threat modelling program, embedding security in CI/CD, and iteratively improving our vulnerability management processes.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to ensure risk-driven supply chain management across our product, ensuring what we bring in doesn't undermine what we protect.
  • Work directly with our Director of IT operations to ensure our corporate security posture is mitigating risk and empowering our employees to be as secure as possible, through guardrails that protect unacceptable risk but don't stifle innovation.

Data & AI Security

  • Partner with our VP of Data Engineering to strengthen the security of our enrichment engine, data pipelines, and warehouse ecosystems.
  • Direct a strategy that considers security across the full data stack - from ingestion through to the warehouse - with a focus on access governance, data classification, and secrets management as non-negotiables.
  • Define how Cognism embeds AI securely as LLMs and agentic workflows move deeper into the product and our technology teams' operations.
  • Partner with our CISO to shape and implement an AI security posture that is embedded in strong security foundations, helping us stay ahead of the threat landscape rather than reacting to it.

Detection, Response & SOC Partnership

  • Own the strategic relationship with our 24/7 outsourced SOC holding them to a high standard on threat hunting, threat intelligence utilisation, and automated response, not just SLA compliance.
  • Ensure Cognism has a holistic, well-maintained SIEM that reflects how we operate and improves continuously as the threat landscape evolves.
  • Build the internal team into a trusted escalation layer, with clear incident response playbooks, rehearsed escalation paths, and a feedback loop that sharpens detection over time.

Team & Culture

  • Lead a team of application and infrastructure security engineers, setting the standard for technical excellence and deep partnership with their engineering counterparts.
  • Build a security culture where developers raise security questions early, understand threat models, and own remediations, not because policy requires it, but because the culture makes it natural.
  • Be the security leader Cognism's engineers want in the room: credible enough to be trusted, collaborative enough to be included, and strategic enough to make it count.

What We Need

Leadership & influence

  • Demonstrated experience building security programmes from scratch or transforming them significantly in a product-led, engineering-first company.
  • A track record of influencing engineering culture and earning trust, not enforcing it.
  • Experience managing external security partners, (e.g 24/7 Security Operations Centre, penetration testing 3rd parties) and raising their performance through clear accountability, not just contract reviews.
  • Able to communicate risk in business terms to exec and board audiences, and technical terms to engineers, without losing precision in either direction.

Technical foundation

  • Strong AppSec expertise (OWASP, API security, SAST/DAST, SDLC) with practical threat modelling experience - enough to challenge and coach our most senior application security engineers.
  • Handson understanding of data security, cloud data warehouses, and pipeline integrity - enough to ensure we are driving the right programme of work across our technology department.
  • Cloud security fluency with working knowledge of container and Kubernetes security, IAM design, and cloud-native security tooling - enough to clearly identify, prioritise and challenge solutions for implementing security in our cloud environment.
  • Working knowledge of AI/LLM security risks: enough depth to assess integrations, define guardrails, and evolve the programme as the technology does.

Mindset

  • Risk-based by instinct: prioritises based on both technical and business impact
  • Builder mentality: energised by creating structure where there isn't any, pragmatic about sequencing, and focused on outcomes over coverage.
  • Genuinely curious about AI, not just its security risks, but its potential to improve how security is done.

Company Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on the level of experience
  • 24 days’ holiday PLUS all the usual public holidays
  • Birthday off
  • Flexible working hours, with the ability to work from home
  • Private health insurance (only in specific locations)
  • Work with the latest technology paradigms
  • Access to education opportunities (books, courses, seminars, conferences)
  • Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
  • Social activities
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Starling Bank

Full Stack Engineer (ML Ops)

London, UK
FinTech · Banking · Finance
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Job roles: Full Stack
Experience level: Mid, Senior
Core skills considered: Java, React, Redux, AWS, JavaScript

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Base salary: £70K - £110K
Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: Hybrid (up to 2 remote days p/w)
Visa sponsorship: Not available

Job Description

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

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. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are excited about the value of data within the business, powers our product decisions to improve things for our customers and enhance effective and agile decision making, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

Requirements

We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis.

We are looking for people who are truly full stack, and are as comfortable polishing their javascript front end as they are debugging the innards of their java applications database interactions, or standing up infrastructure with terraform. We are looking for people who can:

  • Design REST apis.
  • Code backend services, ideally using Java, or another other server side compiled language.
  • Develop modern front ends, ideally using React and Redux.
  • Get their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS.
  • Believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
  • Like to take ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.
  • Think (like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software.

Company Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Part-time and/or flexible hours available for most roles
  • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary
  • Hybrid/remote working
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
  • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

Full details are available on our careers site

Interview Process

Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

  • Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
  • Stage 2 - Take home challenge
  • Stage 3 - 90 mins technical interview with two team members
  • Stage 3 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team
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