Lead Security Solution Architect for Banking project

Overview

Lead Security Solution Architect for Banking project

Security design authority for all eight CRs – designs Expleo-delivered controls, specifies security requirements for client-delivered components and reviews client designs before build.

Responsibilities

• Produce HLD/LLD for mobile security, PKI segregation, firewall/WAF clustering and traffic segregation
• Define security requirements and acceptance criteria for client-delivered Splunk, OBS and carrier work
• Write interface and security specifications for client-built backend APIs (telemetry, attestation, risk scoring)
• Lead the RASP / mobile threat defence vendor evaluation and recommendation
• Chair the fortnightly design authority and security design reviews
• Assess residual risk and author residual-risk statements for acceptance
• Ensure cross-CR dependencies are designed coherently
• Support threat modelling and security test scoping with the Test Lead

Essential skills

• Enterprise security architecture, zero trust and network segmentation
• Open Banking / Open Finance API security – mTLS, OAuth2, FAPI
• PKI, mobile application security (RASP, attestation) and WAF design
• Security design review of third-party / client-built solutions

Desired skills

• • • Good to have

      • SIEM architecture (Splunk) and resilience design
      • Operational-resilience and concentration-risk frameworks
      • UAE PDPL / CBUAE security expectations

      Tools

      draw.io / Visio, Confluence, threat-modelling tools (OWASP Threat Dragon / IriusRisk)

Experience

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

• Experience in BFSI or other regulated-sector programmes
• Clear written and spoken English; Arabic an advantage
• Willingness to travel to the UAE when required
• Eligibility for client background screening and NDA