Manager AI & Application Security📣 إعلان

About the Role

Bupa Arabia is seeking a Manager AI & Application Security to oversee and manage application and AI security across enterprise systems and AI-enabled solutions. This is a full-time position based in Jeddah or Makkah, Saudi Arabia, within the Makkah region.

Application and AI Security Governance

• Establish and maintain the Application Security and AI Security programs.
• Define security standards, control requirements, and governance processes for applications and AI-enabled solutions.
• Align application and AI security practices with cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, enterprise architecture, and risk management requirements.
• Maintain secure development guidelines for traditional applications, APIs, cloud-native applications, and AI solutions.

Secure Design and Development Lifecycle

• Conduct threat modeling for business applications, APIs, cloud applications, AI use cases, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Review application and AI solution architectures to identify security design weaknesses.
• Assess authentication, authorization, session management, data flows, integration patterns, and trust boundaries.
• Identify risks such as prompt injection, insecure AI integrations, model misuse, excessive agency, data leakage, and unauthorized access to sensitive information.
• Embed application and AI security requirements across design, development, testing, release, and production deployment stages.
• Advise development teams on secure software engineering, secure coding, API security, secrets management, dependency management, and DevSecOps practices.
• Define security gates before production deployment for applications and AI solutions.
• Promote developer security awareness and practical secure coding practices.

Security Testing and Vulnerability Management

• Manage and review findings from SAST, DAST, API security testing, software composition analysis, container scanning, and manual security reviews.
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, exposure, business criticality, and data sensitivity.
• Coordinate remediation with development, infrastructure, application owners, and cybersecurity teams.
• Track closure of security findings and validate remediation before release or production go-live.

AI Security and Data Protection

• Assess AI use cases for cybersecurity, privacy, legal, regulatory, and data protection risks.
• Review AI-related data flows, training data, input/output handling, access controls, logging, retention, and sensitive data exposure risks.
• Evaluate third-party AI services, internal AI platforms, APIs, plugins, and AI integrations with enterprise systems from a cybersecurity perspective.
• Define controls for prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse, insecure outputs, unauthorized data access, and AI-assisted software vulnerabilities.

Advisory and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor emerging application security and AI security threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and industry best practices.
• Provide expert advisory to development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, privacy, and business teams.
• Support secure adoption of AI technologies across the organization while enabling innovation safely.
• Report application and AI security posture, risks, remediation progress, and key metrics to management.
• Continuously improve tools, processes, standards, and security review practices.

Required Experience

Candidates should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in application and AI security.