Principal Security Engineer (Ref: 197828)

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and engineering roadmap for enterprise cybersecurity capabilities.
• Architect security controls for banking platforms, cloud services, infrastructure, applications, networks, and data environments.
• Evaluate solution designs and provide security requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strengthen identity and access management, privileged access, encryption, key management, endpoint protection, and monitoring.
• Assess vulnerabilities, threats, control weaknesses, and remediation options.
• Define repeatable engineering patterns, reference architectures, and secure configuration standards.
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, software delivery, operations, risk, audit, and compliance teams.
• Review incidents and emerging threats to identify lasting engineering improvements.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, or a related technical leadership discipline.
• Experience designing and implementing security capabilities in banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management, cryptography, network security, cloud security, application security, endpoint controls, and security monitoring.
• Ability to translate threat scenarios and risk assessments into proportionate technical controls.
• Experience establishing security standards, reference architectures, engineering processes, and control assurance activities.
• Confidence reviewing complex technology designs and challenging decisions that increase operational or regulatory exposure.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, secure development practices, vulnerability management, and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Exceptional communication skills and judgement to influence senior stakeholders and guide technical teams.

Benefits

• A senior technical mandate influencing protection of essential banking services and sensitive financial information.
• Exposure to retail banking, wealth management, commercial banking, corporate finance, investment banking, and cash management.
• Opportunity to shape security architecture, engineering standards, and cyber resilience.
• Visibility across enterprise technology, risk, compliance, delivery, and operational leadership functions.
• Access to complex security challenges supporting continued professional and technical growth.

Workplace

• The position is based in Abu Dhabi.
• The role spans enterprise technology, banking platforms, cloud services, infrastructure, applications, networks, and data environments.