Principal Security Architect – Banking & IAM Lead (6mo)

Socium - Teams Done Differently; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Socium - Teams Done Differently is seeking a Principal Security Engineer in the UAE to deliver technical leadership across cybersecurity engineering and security architecture within a regulated banking environment.

You will guide security strategy for IAM, encryption, threat detection, vulnerability management, and secure design across enterprise platforms, applications, and cloud infrastructure, partnering with risk and compliance teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Security Engineering, or Security Architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in Security Architecture and Cybersecurity Engineering.
• Proven experience designing security architectures for complex enterprise platforms, applications, infrastructure, or cloud environments.
• Strong experience with Identity & Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), authentication, authorization, and access security controls.
• Strong understanding of encryption, cryptography, key management, data protection, and secure communication technologies.
• Experience across threat detection, security monitoring, SIEM, threat modelling, vulnerability management, and remediation.
• Strong knowledge of network, application, infrastructure, and cloud security principles.
• Experience conducting security architecture reviews, technical risk assessments, and security control assessments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, Zero Trust, or equivalent security frameworks.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership and guide engineering and security teams.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, documentation, and technical decision-making skills.
• Experience within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated enterprise environments is highly preferred.
• Immediate or short-notice availability is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, and enterprise security initiatives.
• Design and review advanced security architectures for critical banking platforms, applications, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
• Lead the design and implementation of security solutions covering IAM, PAM, encryption, key management, data protection, threat detection, and security monitoring.
• Define security requirements and controls for new and existing technology platforms.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modelling, technical risk assessments, and security design assessments.
• Identify security vulnerabilities, architectural risks, and control gaps and recommend appropriate remediation strategies.
• Guide security engineering and technology teams on cybersecurity best practices, secure design principles, and remediation approaches.
• Support vulnerability management initiatives and coordinate remediation of identified security weaknesses.
• Contribute to the implementation and enhancement of threat detection, SIEM, security monitoring, and incident detection capabilities.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, cloud, network, architecture, and security teams to embed security throughout technology delivery.
• Ensure technology initiatives comply with internal security policies, regulatory requirements, risk management standards, and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to security engineers and other technology teams.
• Contribute to security architecture documentation, technical standards, security patterns, and engineering guidelines.

Job description

Socium - Teams Done Differently is seeking a Principal Security Engineer in the UAE to deliver technical leadership across cybersecurity engineering and security architecture within a regulated banking environment.

You will guide security strategy for IAM, encryption, threat detection, vulnerability management, and secure design across enterprise platforms, applications, and cloud infrastructure, partnering with risk and compliance teams.