Director Security Command & Integration

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Director, Security Command & Integration to provide strategic and operational leadership for the integration of security command, control, communications, intelligence, technology, incident coordination, and commercial delivery across QIC Security Operations. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires over 10 years of experience.

The role is accountable for ensuring the District Security Operations Centre (DSOC) functions as the central hub for situational awareness, operational coordination, information management, and escalation. It also ensures that security contracts and commercial arrangements deliver compliant, effective, and value-driven services aligned with operational demand. The Director will connect people, processes, technology, data, and contracted services into a unified operating model supporting daily security operations, major events, emergencies, elevated security postures, and the transition from development to steady-state city operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and periodically review the long-term security strategy, target operating model, and capability roadmap, aligning command, integration, resilience, and service priorities with Qiddiya's growth and transition to steady-state city operations.
• Define the future balance of employed, contracted, and specialist capabilities, ensuring workforce structures and sourcing models are scalable, resilient, commercially sustainable, and aligned with forecast operational demand.
• Define and maintain the integrated security command, control, and coordination model, including roles, decision rights, escalation routes, command levels, and interfaces with operational teams.
• Provide executive oversight of the DSOC operating model, staffing, procedures, shift governance, briefings, logs, incident coordination, and operational reporting.
• Ensure timely collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of security information from personnel, systems, assets, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Direct integrated coordination for significant incidents, events, and elevated security postures, ensuring clear command, tasking, communication, and decision logging.
• Lead the operational integration of CCTV, access control, alarms, communications, incident management, analytics, and other security technologies into DSOC workflows.
• Establish readiness, maintenance, resilience, fallback, and recovery requirements for command-and-control technologies and communications.
• Maintain command structures, duty arrangements, contact protocols, incident rooms, and supporting documentation for routine and exceptional operations.
• Coordinate command, communications, reporting, and contractor interfaces for major events, VIP/VVIP activity, and heightened security postures.
• Plan and oversee table-top and live exercises to test DSOC, communications, escalation, continuity, and cross-functional coordination.
• Establish and oversee governance for security contracts, including performance cadence, KPI/SLA assurance, change control, risk, compliance, and executive reporting.
• Own the strategic commercial framework for outsourced security services, ensuring delivery models are scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with future city operational requirements.
• Direct performance reviews, non-conformance management, recovery plans, and escalation for persistent or high-risk supplier failure.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in security command, integration, and operational leadership.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing security strategies and operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex security contracts and supplier governance.
• Experience in leading incident, crisis, and major event readiness planning and execution.
• Strong understanding of security technologies and their operational integration.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic environment focused on the development and operation of Qiddiya's security infrastructure.