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This role will embed security throughout the technology lifecycle (Security by Design), ensuring solutions meet business, customer, and regulatory requirements.\nThe ideal candidate combines strong expertise in cloud and application security with practical risk management capabilities, acting as a trusted security advisor to engineering and business teams while enabling the delivery of secure and reliable technology solutions across the UAE and international markets.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Design security architecture for medium- and large-scale software systems, embedding security requirements throughout the entire software development lifecycle (Security by Design), and produce security architecture solutions, standards, and technical specifications.\n2. Design and manage security architecture for cloud environments, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), network segmentation and isolation, encryption and key management, logging, auditing, and threat detection.\n3. 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