# Quantum Cryptography Architect

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

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## Description

Starling is looking for a Quantum Cryptography Architect to join its Security Architecture team. The successful candidate will lead the company's Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) efforts, designing and implementing cryptographic solutions to keep Starling resilient against emerging threats.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the Post-Quantum Strategy, designing Starling's crypto-inventory and evaluating PQC algorithms

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

- Architect secure, scalable solutions across AWS and GCP

- Conduct threat modeling and technical risk assessments on new and existing platform architectures

- Define and promote enterprise cryptographic management standards

Requirements:

- Proven experience in Information Security Architecture or Senior Security Engineering

- Deep expertise in symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, PKI management, and HSMs

- Strong understanding of quantum computing threats to modern encryption and NIST PQC standards

- Ability to perform threat modeling on complex cloud-native applications

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Benefits:

- 25 days holiday plus public holiday allowance

- Extra day's holiday for 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

## Skills

### Required
- symmetric/asymmetric cryptography
- PKI management
- HSMs
- Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- threat modeling
- cloud security (AWS/GCP)

### Nice to have
- Experience in Fintech, Banking, or highly regulated cloud environments
- SABSA framework
- Recognised industry security certifications (e.g. SABSA, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty)

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