Senior Manager Cyber Security - AI
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About the Role
We are partnering with a tier-one financial institution in the UAE to hire a Senior Manager – AI Security. You will lead security for AI models, ML pipelines, and autonomous systems, with 70% focus on cybersecurity execution and 30% on governance and compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Lead technical security assessment of LLMs, RAG frameworks, and AI agents, defending against prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, and supply chain vulnerabilities
- Embed rigorous security architecture and threat modeling into the entire data science and MLOps pipeline
- Establish enterprise grade evaluation frameworks, ethical benchmarks, and risk mitigation strategies tailored to regional and international financial regulations
- Design, implement, and monitor real time AI guardrails and observability dashboards to track model fairness, data privacy, compliance drift, and adversarial anomalies
Requirements
- Strong background in enterprise security architecture, threat modeling, and product security within a highly regulated environment (ideally Banking, FinTech, or Critical Infrastructure)
- Proven, hands on experience securing AI systems, including understanding of LLMs and supporting infrastructure (e.g., Azure OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases)
- Strong familiarity with emerging AI governance standards, data privacy laws, and ethical considerations of deploying automated decision making systems in financial services
- Experience navigating and auditing secure cloud architectures, with strong preference for Azure ecosystem
- Proven track record in a senior or managerial technical role, with communication skills to bridge deep tech engineering squads, data science teams, and executive risk committees
Full Job Posting
Your New Company
- We are partnering with a tier one, leading financial institution in the UAE that is currently reshaping the future of banking.
- Backed by a huge investment into a newly established AI Center of Excellence, this institution is positioning itself at the absolute forefront of global financial innovation.
- They are establishing an elite, dedicated team to ensure these cutting edge technologies are built, deployed, and governed with world class security.
Your New Role
- As the Senior Manager – AI Security, you will take on a vital leadership and execution role within the bank's advanced technology division.
- Your mission will be to secure the future of AI driven banking by ensuring all AI models, ML pipelines, and autonomous agentic systems are robust against emerging threats and fully compliant with global standards.
- This is a highly specialized role split 70% focused on deep cybersecurity execution and 30% on governance, ethics, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical security assessment of LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks, and AI agents. Defend against specialized vectors like prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
- Embed rigorous security architecture and threat modeling into the entire data science and MLOps pipeline, ensuring code, training data, and model outputs remain entirely secure.
- Own the 30% governance mandate by establishing enterprise grade evaluation frameworks, ethical benchmarks, and risk mitigation strategies tailored to regional and international financial regulations.
- Design, implement, and monitor real time AI guardrails and observability dashboards to track model fairness, data privacy, compliance drift, and adversarial anomalies.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- A strong background in enterprise security architecture, threat modeling, and product security within a highly regulated environment (ideally Banking, FinTech, or Critical Infrastructure).
- Proven, hands on experience securing AI systems. You must deeply understand how LLMs operate and how to defend the infrastructure supporting them (e.g., Azure OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases).
- Strong familiarity with emerging AI governance standards, data privacy laws, and the ethical considerations of deploying automated decision making systems in financial services.
- Experience navigating and auditing secure cloud architectures, with a strong preference for the Azure ecosystem.
- Proven track record in a senior or managerial technical role, with the communication skills required to bridge the gap between deep tech engineering squads, data science teams, and executive risk committees.
What You'll Get in Return
- A highly competitive tax free salary package tailored for elite security talent.
- Premium corporate benefits including comprehensive healthcare, allowances, and performance based incentives.
- An unparalleled opportunity to be a founding pillar of a pioneering AI Center of Excellence, defining frameworks for securing autonomous financial systems.
What You Need to Do Now
- If you are a cyber security expert ready to define the standard for AI defense and governance in the banking sector, click 'apply now' to forward an up to date copy of your CV.
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