# Quantum Cryptography Architect

**Company**: Starling
**Location**: Cardiff, Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Starling, the UK's first leading digital bank, is seeking a Quantum Cryptography Architect to join its Cyber Security team in Cardiff, Wales. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in designing and implementing post-quantum cryptography strategies to protect the company's assets against emerging threats.

The Security Architecture team at Starling drives significant impact across the organisation, guiding and empowering teams across Security and the wider technology landscape. As a Quantum Cryptography Architect, you will own the strategic design of cloud-native and on-premise cryptography roadmaps, conduct cryptographic assessments, drive crypto-agility, and define the technical roadmap to keep Starling resilient against future threats.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the Post-Quantum Strategy, designing the crypto-inventory, evaluating PQC algorithms, and architecting cryptographic agility

- Act as the Cryptography SME, providing expert guidance on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), key management, and transport layer protocols

- Deliver secure, scalable solutions across AWS and GCP, translating complex security requirements into simple design patterns

- Lead secure design reviews and threat modeling initiatives, delivering actionable security guidance to Engineering teams

- Collaborate with software engineers, cloud architects, and security operations to embed security seamlessly into the development lifecycle

Requirements:

- Proven experience in Information Security Architecture or Senior Security Engineering roles

- Comprehensive knowledge of symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, PKI management, digital signatures, key management systems (KMS), and HSMs

- Strong understanding of quantum computing threats to modern encryption, NIST PQC standards, and strategies for achieving crypto-agility

- Demonstrated ability to perform threat modeling on complex cloud-native applications and microservices architectures

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of distilling complex technical risks into clear guidance

Benefits:

- 25 days holiday, plus an extra day's holiday for your birthday

- Annual leave increases with length of service

- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year

- Salary sacrifice, company-enhanced pension scheme

- Life insurance and group income protection

- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth

- Perkbox membership and access to retail discounts and wellness platforms

## Skills

### Required
- symmetric/asymmetric cryptography
- PKI management
- digital signatures
- key management systems (KMS)
- HSMs
- Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- threat modeling
- cloud-native applications
- microservices architectures

### Nice to have
- Experience in Fintech, Banking, or highly regulated cloud environments
- Demonstrated background in a highly technical role
- Experience in infrastructure, application, and AI security
- Practical experience leveraging and applying the SABSA framework
- Recognised industry security certifications

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