Head of Cyber Security

The Head of Cyber Security is responsible for building and leading the company's cybersecurity business, with accountability for strategy, client engagement, managed security services, service delivery, and growth. The role will develop secure, scalable, and commercially viable cyber capabilities across defensive security, offensive security, GRC, data governance, and AI assurance, while strengthening client trust and positioning the company as a leading regional cybersecurity and digital trust provider.

Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery of Managed Security Services, including SOC, SIEM, MDR, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and security monitoring.
• Define and oversee cloud security capabilities across public cloud, private cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
• Ensure SLA/KPI adherence and high-quality service delivery across all client engagements.
• Drive continuous improvement, automation, AI-assisted security operations, and detection engineering.
• Define and execute the company's strategy across cybersecurity, data governance, cloud security, and AI assurance, aligned with business and client objectives.
• Establish governance frameworks covering ISO 27001, NIST, ISO 42001, privacy, data governance, and relevant regional regulatory requirements.
• Develop integrated governance models covering cyber risk, data ownership, privacy, AI risk, compliance, and assurance.
• Support clients in establishing responsible AI governance, AI risk management, model assurance, and regulatory compliance.
• Support Sales and Pre-Sales in solution design, proposals, bids, and executive client presentations.
• Develop and position the company's offerings across managed security, cloud security, offensive security, GRC, data governance, privacy, and AI assurance.
• Standardize solution architectures, delivery models, pricing, and service propositions.
• Identify strategic technology partners and develop differentiated, scalable offerings aligned with market demand.
• Own cyber risk management, vulnerability management, and security architecture strategy.
• Oversee secure architecture across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, application, network, and data environments.
• Ensure cloud security controls are embedded across IAM, configuration management, workload protection, data protection, logging, and monitoring.
• Support secure-by-design principles across infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and AI systems.
• Develop the company's capabilities across data governance, data quality, ownership, stewardship, lineage, classification, and lifecycle management.
• Establish privacy and data-protection services covering ROPA, DPIA, DSAR, data discovery, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop AI governance and assurance services covering AI inventories, risk classification, model governance, security testing, AI red teaming, explainability, and human oversight.
• Integrate cyber, data, privacy, and AI governance into a unified digital-trust proposition.
• Drive revenue growth across cybersecurity, managed services, cloud security, data governance, and AI assurance offerings.
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within existing the company's and Group client accounts.
• Build new recurring-revenue services and managed offerings.
• Collaborate with Sales and Group leadership to strengthen the company's regional market positioning and strategic partnerships.
• Build and lead high-performing teams across cyber defense, offensive security, cloud security, GRC, data governance, and AI assurance.
• Define the target organization structure and recruit critical leadership, technical, and delivery roles.
• Drive professional certifications, training, career development, and succession planning.
• Align team capacity and capability with pipeline, service delivery, and commercial growth.
• Define KPIs, SLAs, utilization, margin, service-quality, and customer-satisfaction measures.
• Establish governance and reporting across Sales, Delivery, IT, Compliance, Data, AI, and Managed Services.
• Monitor operational and financial performance against agreed business objectives.
• Continuously enhance the operating model, delivery quality, automation, scalability, and customer experience.

Qualifications:

• Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in cyber security, IT, or related field
  • Master’s degree in cyber security/information security is desired

• Experience:

  • 15+ years in cyber security with at least 5 years in leadership roles
  • Experience in MSSP/System Integrator (the company's-type environment) is desired

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong expertise in SOC, SIEM, EDR, cloud security, and GRC frameworks
• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer