Analytics Engineer (Financial Crime & Customer Identity)

Starling Bank

Analytics Engineer (Financial Crime & Customer Identity)

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Starling Bank, City Centre, Manchester

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted today, 29 Sep | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 2cf97ebe748b457dbbcb322ebced1bf3

Full Job Description

  • Work closely with the financial crime and onboarding teams to identify problems and use data to propose solutions for effective decision making
  • Translate data requirements from across the organisation into robust and reusable data models via dbt
  • Develop data models in Looker, ensuring consistent and clear documentation
  • Perform data analysis to create models or test ideas
  • Collaborate with the wider data team to help meet the business goals

    Experience focusing on financial crime projects (Fraud, AML, Screening and Cyber)
  • Strong experience with SQL
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with Looker or a similar visualisation tool
  • Experience with data architecture and dimensional modelling
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
  • Desirable Requirements
  • Strong experience with dbt or a desire to learn

    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.
  • We are about giving customers a new way to spend, save and manage their money while taking better care of the planet which has seen us become a multi-award winning bank that now employs over 2800 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and Manchester. Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed 3.5 million accounts (and four account types!) with 350,000 business customers. We are a fully licensed UK bank but at the heart, we are a tech first company, enabling our platform to deliver brilliant products. 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.

    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 test
  • Stage 3 - 60 mins technical interview with two team members
  • Stage 4 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team
  • 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