Senior Security Architect — Banking & Enterprise Tech

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to define and advance the security engineering direction across critical banking systems in Abu Dhabi. You will translate strategy into architecture, standards, and controls protecting identities, infrastructure, applications, networks, and sensitive financial data.

Success will reduce material risk, standardize controls, and enable secure project delivery within a regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering or security architecture.
• Proven ability to design and implement security capabilities in regulated environments (banking/financial).
• Strong knowledge of IAM, cryptography, network security, cloud security, application security, endpoint controls, and monitoring.
• Ability to translate threat scenarios and risk assessments into technical controls.
• Experience establishing security standards, reference architectures, and secure configurations.

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, 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.
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, software delivery, operations, risk, audit, and compliance stakeholders.
• Review security incidents and emerging threats to identify lasting engineering improvements.

Skills

Security engineering

Security architecture

Identity management

Cryptography

Network security

Cloud security

Security monitoring

Threat modeling

Stakeholder management

Job description

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to define and advance the security engineering direction across critical banking systems in Abu Dhabi. You will translate strategy into architecture, standards, and controls protecting identities, infrastructure, applications, networks, and sensitive financial data.

Success will reduce material risk, standardize controls, and enable secure project delivery within a regulated banking environment.