Senior Security Architect – Banking & Enterprise Protection

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Abu Dhabi seeks a Principal Security Engineer to define the technical direction of security engineering across critical banking systems and enterprise technology services. This role translates security strategy into practical architecture, engineering standards, and controls that protect identities, infrastructure, applications, networks, and sensitive financial data.

Success includes reducing material security risk, aligning with regulatory requirements, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering and security architecture within banking or highly regulated environments.
• Ability to translate threat scenarios into proportionate technical controls.
• Proven track record of establishing security standards, reference architectures, and engineering processes.
• Strong understanding of IAM, encryption, network and cloud security, and security monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and engineering roadmap for enterprise cybersecurity capabilities.
• Architect security controls for banking platforms, cloud services, infrastructure, applications, networks, and data environments.
• Evaluate solution designs and provide clear security requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strengthen identity and access management, privileged access, encryption, key management, endpoint protection, and security monitoring capabilities.
• Lead the technical assessment of vulnerabilities, threats, control weaknesses, and remediation options.
• Define repeatable engineering patterns, reference architectures, and secure configuration standards.
• Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, software delivery, operations, risk, audit, and compliance stakeholders.
• Review security incidents and emerging threats to identify lasting engineering improvements.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Security architecture

Regulated environment

IAM

Cryptography

Cloud security

Threat assessment

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Abu Dhabi seeks a Principal Security Engineer to define the technical direction of security engineering across critical banking systems and enterprise technology services. This role translates security strategy into practical architecture, engineering standards, and controls that protect identities, infrastructure, applications, networks, and sensitive financial data.

Success includes reducing material security risk, aligning with regulatory requirements, and