At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, growing bank with a reputation for doing things differently. We don’t want another cog in the machine, we’re looking for self-starters and bold thinkers who want to pave their own career. OakNorth’s Risk team provides guidance and oversight for technology and cyber related risks across the OakNorth Bank plc Group.
In a nutshell this exciting and high-performing role, will play a pivotal part in ensuring OakNorth’s adherence to security related regulatory requirements aligned to global standards and frameworks, and bring enhanced risk visibility, automation, and continuous assurance mechanisms across technology and security domains.
Are you ready to step up to the challenge?
The Role 👋
- Advance the Technology and Cyber Risk capability: The individual will provides oversight, review and challenge of the cyber risk profile and cyber control environment. Contribute towards the development/enhancement of technology risk framework and ensure alignment with evolving regulatory expectations and adoption of newer technologies and architecture patterns.
Experience 🧱
- 4-6 years, experience in regulated financial or fintech environments, or with technology risk focused consulting firms preferred.
- A deep understanding of IT security and technology risks principles, with specific focus of operating in a cloud-native and SaaS heavy environment is essential for this role.
- Demonstrated experience with cyber risk frameworks and a solid understanding of best practices within a well-managed cyber environment.
- Effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience with cloud platforms’ risk management, cloud security, and compliance, including domains of Identity and Access Management, Infrastructure and Data security, Detection and Incident Response, and Governance.
How We Expect You To Behave ❤️
- We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this:
- A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all
- Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together
- Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question
- No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely
