Company
Our client is founded by the Saudi government to bring all communities together and develop all sectors and fields with innovative solutions. The organization generates over $24 million in sales and has over 850 companies and 700 employees.
They are currently looking for a Security Architect to be based in Remote, Saudi Arabia.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Lead the collaborative development and implementation of the company’s security architecture, including elements such as social engineering countermeasures, process, software, hardware, and network.
Collaborate with internal teams and clients to understand the risk management needs of the areas, sectors, and domains of company.
Ensure that the enterprise architecture meets the business, privacy, industry, and regulatory needs of company.
Develop security onboarding and education programs for staff across company and provide support and mentorship to build a collaborative and effective work culture.
Facilitate engagements, meetings, workshops, and forums to determine security needs and current state for clients.
Liaise with programmers and software development teams to design and implement security systems and controls.
Support, educate, and offer advice to clients on security and risk management for their specific processes and technology.
Monitor and maintain the security of the enterprise architecture and develop in-depth knowledge of the security needs of company’s architecture and infrastructure.
Develop resources and tools to support the security of company’s enterprise architecture and digital ecosystem.

Qualification & Requirements:

10+ years of relevant industry experience.
5+ years of experience developing security architecture for broad and complex systems.
5+ years of experience in two or more of the following security frameworks: NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, ITIL, COBIT, SABSA, TOGAF.
3+ years of experience designing and implementing container security, API security, and cloud security.
3+ years of experience with Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process and CI/CD (DevSecOps) pipeline, including, but not limited to GitHub, Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins.
Demonstrated experience in security integration using oAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, and LDAP.
Strong public, conversational, and written communication, especially for communicating complex and technical topics to a non-technical audience.
Deep understanding and experience with modern technology architecture approaches.
Experience working with both on-premises and major cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Experience securing container-based architecture and microservices.
Experience mentoring intermediate and junior architects and engineers.