IT Compliance Support Engineer - Hybrid - Banking
Posted 1 day ago by GCS
£415 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The IT Compliance Support Engineer role involves acting as the primary liaison for internal and external audits, compliance, and IT security within a Tier 1 banking environment. This position requires a combination of governance and technical skills to support audits, manage IT controls, and improve developer productivity. The role is hybrid, based in Canary Wharf, and is expected to last for six months with a likely extension. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining audit readiness and coordinating remediation of audit findings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the single point of contact for internal/external audit, compliance, and IT security.
- Handle audit requests, walkthroughs, and create timely evidence.
- Maintain an audit-ready repository of artefacts and narratives.
- Understand C# code and SQL scripts to verify logic and queries.
- Operate and improve general IT controls across change management and access control.
- Create and maintain clear documentation: SOPs, control narratives, diagrams, audit evidence packs.
- Assist in completing required risk and compliance assessments.
- Track and manage remediation of audit findings and control gaps.
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and maintain defect logs for audit readiness.
Key Skills:
- Experience in IT compliance and audit processes.
- Proficiency in C# and SQL for technical verification.
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and Jira.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to interpret technical details for auditors.
- Experience with IT controls and governance frameworks.
- Familiarity with risk assessment processes.
Salary (Rate): £415/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
IT Compliance Support Engineer - Hybrid / Canary Wharf - 6 month Contract - Banking Tier 1 Bank - Regulatory Reporting Team
Role - IT Compliance Support Engineer
Duration - 6 months with very likely extension
Location - Hybrid / Canary Wharf - 3 days per week in a Canary Wharf office
Rate - £415 per day (Inside IR35)
Role IT Compliance Support Engineer to join a development team and act as the primary liaison with internal/external audit, compliance, and IT security counterparts. This role combines governance with technical capability-supporting audits, demonstrating IT controls, and troubleshooting or coordinating resolution of issues across Azure DevOps pipelines, ServiceNow change management, and Jira requirement workflows. You will help us evidence good practice, reduce audit friction, and improve developer productivity by ensuring our controls are both effective and practical.
Tasks
- Audit & Compliance Liaison
- Act as the single point of contact for internal/external audit, compliance, and IT security.
- Handle audit requests, walkthroughs, and create timely evidence (C# source code, SQL scripts, server config, Azure DevOps logs, ServiceNow change records, Jira artefacts).
- Maintain an audit-ready repository of artefacts and narratives (control matrices, process maps, and access log review).
- Interpret Technical Details for Auditors
- Ability to understand C# code and SQL scripts to verify logic and queries.
- Interpret permissions (Windows, Azure AD, Azure DevOps) and explain them clearly to auditors.
- Translate technical details into auditor-friendly narratives.
- IT Controls & Governance
- Operate and improve general IT controls (GITC) across change management, access control, backups/recovery, incident/problem management.
- Ensure segregation of duties, peer reviews, approvals, and traceability for production changes.
- Embed controls within Azure DevOps pipelines (e.g., gated approvals, policy enforcement).
- Evidence & Documentation
- Create and maintain clear documentation: SOPs, control narratives, diagrams, audit evidence packs.
- Support Risk Assessments
- Assist or act on behalf of the Application Service Owner in completing required risk and compliance assessments (e.g., security, operational resilience, regulatory checks) as per internal governance standards and workflows.
- Ensure timely submission of assessment artefacts and coordinate with relevant stakeholders for approvals and remediation actions.
- Coordinate Audit/Assessment/Security Defect Remediation
- Track and manage remediation of audit findings, control gaps, and assessment defects.
- Work with developers, platform teams, and risk owners to ensure timely closure and evidence of remediation.
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and maintain defect logs for audit readiness.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.