

Dubai-based lifestyle conglomerate spanning retail, leisure, real estate, entertainment across Middle East, Africa, Asia
3 days ago
Expert & Leadership (13+ years)
Full Time
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Office Full-Time
Company Size
43,000 Employees
Service Specialisms
Sector Specialisms
The Enterprise Security Architect leads and governs enterprise-wide security architecture across all platforms and businesses, ensuring alignment with business strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements while enabling secure-by-design solutions. They embed security into digital transformation and emerging technologies to support innovation, agility, and scalability.
The role is responsible for developing and maturing the security architecture capability across the group, including standards, principles, reference architectures, and design governance. It also defines and maintains security architecture standards, reference architectures, patterns, and reusable blueprints such as cloud landing zone controls, identity, logging, encryption, and secure integration patterns.
The architect owns and approves security architecture and design for major programs, platforms, and transformation initiatives, and oversees end-to-end application security architecture throughout the delivery lifecycle. They establish a risk-based, iterative security architecture review model integrated into agile and product delivery, and provide leadership for cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including secure landing zones and shared responsibility models.
Continuous assessment of emerging technologies and threat trends is required, translating findings into actionable guidance and reporting architecture KPIs such as review cycle time, exception trends, repeat findings, and pattern adoption.
Candidates need 12+ years of information security experience, including substantial security-architecture work, preferably in regulated or high-risk sectors. Required education includes a bachelor’s or master’s in a related field, and certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CREST Registered Technical Security Architect, and cloud security specializations. Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential.