Lead Cybersecurity Architect & Engineering Leader

DXC Technology Company; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Technology in Abu Dhabi seeks a Lead Cybersecurity Architect & Engineering Lead to own the integrated cybersecurity architecture for a major greenfield enterprise transformation programme.

You will lead security design across segregated, air-gapped and cross-domain environments, coordinating specialist engineering teams across identity, cryptography, security operations, endpoint, data, application and OT/IoT security, ensuring a coherent architecture from design through implementation,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a related discipline.
• At least 12 years of relevant cybersecurity experience.
• At least 5 years leading security architecture or engineering activities for complex programmes.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary cybersecurity teams, OEMs and vendors.
• Strong experience producing high-level designs and governing detailed security designs.
• Experience architecting segregated, air-gapped or cross-domain environments.
• Experience with sizing, licensing and BoQ development.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated Cybersecurity High-Level Design (HLD).
• Lead and govern Low-Level Designs (LLDs) by engineers, OEMs and domain specialists.
• Define security principles, standards and secure-by-design requirements.
• Design security controls for segregated, air-gapped and cross-domain environments.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, designs and BoQ.
• Lead architecture reviews and support approvals.
• Align designs with security, privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture across IAM, PAM, PKI, cryptography, security operations, endpoint, data and application security.
• Define monitoring, detection and automation architecture across SIEM, SOAR, SOC.
• Govern development of detection content, response playbooks and integrations.
• Define secure integration requirements across applications, infrastructure and platforms.
• Coordinate with networks, infrastructure, applications, smart-campus and service-management workstreams.
• Integrate OT/IoT security, resilience and cyber recovery into the overall design.
• Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary security engineers and domain specialists.
• Review detailed designs and implementation approaches against the approved architecture.
• Coordinate OEM and vendor inputs and resolve cross-platform issues.
• Challenge design proposals and manage risks and dependencies.
• Validate platform sizing, licensing and BoQ quantities.
• Identify opportunities to optimise solutions while maintaining security.

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Security design

Leadership

Technical writing

Stakeholder management

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/Information Security/CS/Engineering

Job description

DXC Technology in Abu Dhabi seeks a Lead Cybersecurity Architect & Engineering Lead to own the integrated cybersecurity architecture for a major greenfield enterprise transformation programme.

You will lead security design across segregated, air-gapped and cross-domain environments, coordinating specialist engineering teams across identity, cryptography, security operations, endpoint, data, application and OT/IoT security, ensuring a coherent architecture from design through implementation,