Lead Security Solution Architect for Banking project

Act as security design authority across eight change requests, producing and reviewing high and low-level designs for security controls and client components.

Lead vendor evaluation/recommendation for RASP/mobile threat defense and chair bi-weekly security design authority and review meetings.

Assess and author residual risk statements, ensure design coherence across dependencies, and support threat modeling and security test scoping.

8+ years of experience in software testing, preferably in Banking, Payments or FinTech sectors.

Experience with enterprise security architecture, zero trust, network segmentation, Open Banking/Open Finance API security (mTLS, OAuth2, FAPI).

Willingness to travel to the UAE and eligibility for client background screening and NDA.

Clear written and spoken English; Arabic language skill is an advantage but not mandatory.

Experienced in BFSI or other regulated-sector programs with strong security design and review capabilities.

Familiar with PKI, mobile application security (RASP, attestation), WAF design, and SIEM architecture like Splunk.

Comfortable leading multi-stakeholder design authority forums and working with cross-team dependencies within complex banking projects.