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Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time. 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.\nWe’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.\nOur 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!\nThe 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.\nHybrid Working\nWe 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. In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.\nOur Data Environment\nOur Data teams are aligned to divisions covering the following Banking Services & Products, Customer Identity & Financial Crime and Data & ML Engineering. Our Data teams are excited about delivering meaningful and impactful insights to both the business and more importantly our customers. Hear from the team in our latest \nblogs\n or our case studies with \nWomen in Tech\n.\nWe 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.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nModernize and Scale the RDS Fleet:\n Ensure the reliability of our existing RDS footprint. You will use Terraform to maintain the databases and automate strategies for performance tuning \nEvolve Observability & Monitoring:\n Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet. You will leverage Java-based data collection pipelines and metrics platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Dash0, Sentry, Humio) to detect performance regressions, slow queries, and health issues before they impact customers\nFortify Business Continuity (BCP):\n Design and implement rigorous Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery strategies. You will build Java-based automation that ensures data durability and rapid recovery across regions, guaranteeing our databases remain resilient.\nArchitect Cross-Cloud Portability:\n Use CNPG (CloudNativePG) and cloud-native patterns to ensure our database layer remains provider-agnostic, allowing seamless deployment across clouds\nBuild Java-Driven Applications:\n Enhance production-grade Java microservices to orchestrate database monitoring, automated failover, and replication workflows\nPostgreSQL Experience:\n You have hands-on experience working with Postgres databases. 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In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:\nStage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team\nStage 2 - Take-home challenge\nStage 3 - 60 mins technical interview with two team members\nStage 4 - 45 min final with two data executives\n25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)\nAn extra day’s holiday for your birthday\nAnnual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off\n16 hours paid volunteering time a year\nSalary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme\nLife insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection\nPrivate Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton\nGenerous family-friendly policies\nPerkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks\nAccess to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing\nAbout Us\nYou may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.\nStarling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. \nWhen you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. 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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.\n\n## What you’ll be doing:\n\n- **Modernize and Scale the RDS Fleet:**\n Ensure the reliability of our existing RDS footprint. You will use Terraform to maintain the databases and automate strategies for performance tuning \n- **Evolve Observability & Monitoring:**\n Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet. You will leverage Java-based data collection pipelines and metrics platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Dash0, Sentry, Humio) to detect performance regressions, slow queries, and health issues before they impact customers\n- **Fortify Business Continuity (BCP):**\n Design and implement rigorous Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery strategies. You will build Java-based automation that ensures data durability and rapid recovery across regions, guaranteeing our databases remain resilient.\n- **Architect Cross-Cloud Portability:**\n Use CNPG (CloudNativePG) and cloud-native patterns to ensure our database layer remains provider-agnostic, allowing seamless deployment across clouds\n- **Build Java-Driven Applications:**\n Enhance production-grade Java microservices to orchestrate database monitoring, automated failover, and replication workflows\n- **PostgreSQL Experience:**\n You have hands-on experience working with Postgres databases. 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