Director Security Command & Integration

About the Role

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Director - Security Command & Integration to provide strategic and operational leadership for security command, control, communications, intelligence, technology, incident coordination, and commercial delivery across QIC Security Operations. This full-time role is central to ensuring the District Security Operations Centre (DSOC) functions as the primary hub for situational awareness, operational coordination, information management, and escalation. The Director will also ensure that security contracts and commercial arrangements deliver compliant, effective, and value-driven services aligned with operational demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and periodically review the long-term security strategy, target operating model, and capability roadmap, aligning priorities with Qiddiya's growth and transition to steady-state city operations.
• Define the future balance of employed, contracted, and specialist capabilities to ensure scalable, resilient, and commercially sustainable workforce structures and sourcing models.
• 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.

Systems, Technology, and Operational Integration

• 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.

Incident, Crisis, and Major Event Readiness

• 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.

Contracts, Commercial, and Supplier Governance

• 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 remain 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

Candidates for this role should possess a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in security command, control, and integration, demonstrating a proven track record in strategic and operational leadership within complex security environments.