Senior Cybersecurity GRC & Advisory Lead

Axon Technologies; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon Technologies is expanding its Cybersecurity Advisory team and is looking for a Manager - Cybersecurity GRC & Advisory to lead client engagements across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC. This hands‑on, client‑facing role combines governance, risk and compliance expertise with security architecture literacy to advise CISOs, architects and executive stakeholders directly.

As a Manager, you will own deliverables from day one on live engagements, write SOC/CTI documentation, contribute to

Qualifications

• 7–12 years of cybersecurity experience with at least 5 years in GRC or advisory.
• Experience delivering consulting engagements in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC for government, financial‑services or critical‑infrastructure clients.
• Strong written and verbal English, executive‑level communication and reporting skills.
• CISSP or CISM certification is preferred.
• Willingness to travel regularly to Riyadh and work to the Saudi business week.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cybersecurity advisory engagements from mobilisation through to client sign‑off.
• Act as trusted advisor and virtual CISO to clients, including CISOs, security architects, SOC leads, risk, compliance and business stakeholders.
• Plan and run stakeholder interviews and workshops for business impact assessments, risk assessments and security architecture reviews.
• Develop cybersecurity strategies, roadmaps, risk registers and leadership reporting.
• Assess security posture and control maturity against NCA ECC/CSCC, SAMA CSF, ISO 27001 and NIST, and build practical remediation plans.
• Author and review SOC and threat‑intelligence policies, procedures, playbooks, runbooks, KPIs and operating‑model documentation.
• Contribute to enterprise security reference architectures, SABSA/TOGAF alignment and architecture deliverables.
• Mentor junior consultants and improve Axon's delivery templates and accelerators.

Skills

GRC

Advisory consulting

Security architecture

Technical writing

Stakeholder management

vCISO experience

CISSP or CISM

English proficiency

Leadership / mentoring

Tools

Nessus

Nipper

AlienVault

McAfee ESM

Job description

Axon Technologies is expanding its Cybersecurity Advisory team and is looking for a Manager - Cybersecurity GRC & Advisory to lead client engagements across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC. This hands‑on, client‑facing role combines governance, risk and compliance expertise with security architecture literacy to advise CISOs, architects and executive stakeholders directly.

As a Manager, you will own deliverables from day one on live engagements, write SOC/CTI documentation, contribute to