Senior Executive Manager Cyber Security Strategy & Architecture

About the Role

Bupa Arabia is seeking a Senior Executive Manager Cyber Security Strategy & Architecture to join their team in Jeddah or Makkah. This full-time role focuses on establishing cybersecurity standards to support business growth and transformation, ensuring security is integrated from the outset.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft and maintain the cybersecurity strategy in alignment with business priorities, risk appetite, and the CISO’s direction.
• Build and maintain a multi-year roadmap, defining investment priorities, outcomes, dependencies, and owners.
• Monitor external threats, regulatory changes, and technology landscapes to recommend strategic adjustments.
• Develop and maintain target-state security architecture, technical standards, and reference patterns across all environments.
• Conduct design-stage architecture reviews for major initiatives and security engineering changes.
• Assess architecture exceptions and technical debt, submitting material exceptions for risk review and CISO approval.
• Apply cybersecurity requirements and architecture guardrails to transformation, technology planning, and delivery projects.
• Collaborate with business, technology, data, cloud, and procurement teams to shape secure solution options early.
• Recommend cybersecurity initiative and investment priorities based on business value, risk reduction, and architectural fit.
• Manage the delivery of prioritized cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation, in line with the approved strategy.
• Coordinate delivery teams, partners, and stakeholders, managing scope, milestones, resources, budgets, and risks.
• Confirm operational handover with Cyber Security Operations, track benefits realization, and escalate material issues to the CISO.
• Track outcome measures for strategy execution and architecture adoption.
• Prepare progress reports on strategy delivery, investment performance, and required decisions.
• Provide strategy and architecture input for the CISO’s leadership, Board, and regulatory reporting.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Maintain effective working relationships with technology, risk, business, and subsidiary stakeholders.
• Engage business and technology stakeholders early to align cybersecurity priorities, roadmaps, and delivery.
• Coordinate with BISOs across functions and subsidiaries to promote consistent security practices.
• Review draft cybersecurity policies for technical feasibility and support the CISO in governance forums.

Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in the Makkah region, with work locations available in Jeddah and Makkah. The role involves working within Bupa Arabia to integrate cybersecurity into business growth and transformation initiatives.