Senior Lead - IT Security Delivery

Qiddiya; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Qiddiya in Riyadh is seeking a Senior IT Security Readiness Lead to own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover across corporate and asset IT security programs. You will enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs, coordinating with Design teams for inputs.

You will supervise end-to-end test planning, observer participation for credibility, manage defect triage and RAID logs, and oversee validation packs with versioned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is required.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred.
• 6-8 years in a relevant industry, preferably with majority in IT security delivery across corporate and asset environments.

Responsibilities

• Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover; coordinate with Design for inputs.
• Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for programs.
• Supervise exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites (access, certs, backups, rollback).
• Manage defect triage; track SLAs and re-tests; escalate blockers; quantify residual risk at release.
• Supervise compilation of validation packs (plans, results, evidence, traceability); ensure versioned storage and approvals.
• Validate runbooks, monitoring/alerting, and L1/L2 training; confirm operational SLOs and DR artifacts.
• Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish comms plans, RACI, and hyper care schedules.
• Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums.

Skills

Governance & gates

Test planning

Defect management

Stakeholder communication

Security controls evaluation

POC oversight

Run readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Master's degree preferred

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover, coordinating with the Design team for inputs. Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs across corporate and asset IT Security programs.

Core Responsibilities

Readiness governance and gates

• Operate exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites (access, certs, backups, rollback).
• Supervise Go/No-Go forums and ensure documentation of risks, exceptions, and compensating controls with Cybersecurity sign-off.
• Maintain change calendars aligned to asset windows and blackout periods.

Test planning, data, and environments

• Supervise the build of end-to-end test plans covering functional, negative, resilience, and integration scenarios.
• Ensure observer participation (Ops, platform SMEs) for test credibility.

Defect, risk, and issue management

• Manage defect triage; assign owners/severity; track fix SLAs and re-tests.
• Maintain RAID logs; escalation blockers; quantify residual risk at release.

Validation packs and traceability

• Supervise compilation of validation packs (plans, results, evidence, traceability matrices); ensure versioned storage and approvals.
• Ensure achievement of first-pass acceptance by QA/Excellence and ensure quick resolution of returns.

Handover and run readiness

• Validate runbooks, monitoring/alerting, and L1/L2 training completion; confirm operational SLOs and DR artifacts.
• Confirm SIEM/SOAR mappings and case workflows prior to go-live.

Stakeholder coordination and communications

• Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish comms plans, RACI, and hyper care schedules.
• Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums.

Continuous improvement

• Track change success rate and checklists accordingly.

Security Control Evaluation, POC, and Implementation

• Lead the evaluation of IT Security controls, technologies, and solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, Cybersecurity requirements, business priorities, and operational needs.
• Oversee Proof of Concept activities, including scope definition, success criteria, stakeholder alignment, execution oversight, and outcome reporting.
• Assess solution suitability based on security effectiveness, integration capability, scalability, compliance alignment, operational impact, supportability, and long-term value.
• Recommend fit-for-purpose IT Security controls and technology solutions based on outcomes, risk reduction value, operational readiness, and enterprise direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is required.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred.

Years of Experience

• 6-8 years in a relevant industry, preferably with majority in IT security delivery across corporate and asset environments.