Required Experience: 10 Years Required Duration: 6 months. Work Location: Riyadh, KSA
Specific Role Requirements:
Provide security architecture expertise and guidance in support of Big Data, application development, infrastructure, Cloud and enterprise projects to ensure the integrity of the customers architecture and data.
Experience or knowledge of applying the latest Frameworks and Guidance as developed and published by national and international organization such as NIST and ISO.
Define, document and implement the Big Data security architecture for the customer including but not limited to the following:
Authentication & authorization (what authorization model is required)
Account administration controls (provisioning, segregation of duties, validation, attestation, etc)
Auditing of critical security related events and controls
Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of the system, data, processes and people.
Assess project requirements related to application security, including correlation with security policy and standards.
Identify data, architectural and other security risks associated with the solution, and compensating controls where necessary.
Distinguish any gaps in existing application security infrastructure to meet program and track requirements
Leading and Collaborating with the Manager for Security & accounts Management to identify and roadmap solutions.
Experience in Big data security implementation for Audit, Authentication, and Authorization (AAA), High availability (HA) and data encryption (DE).
Experience in Big Data stack patches and upgrade processes.
Experience with handling very large data repositories and technologies (multi-petabyte scale or larger scale).
Ability to discuss and explain concisely information security concepts and how they map the client’s current technology landscape
Other Qualifications / Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Ideally with 10+ years of progressive IT experience with Cyber Security related post nominals such as ISC2, ISACA, SANS, EC Council or other industry recognized
Deep understanding of end-to-end Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence / Data Analytics solutions
Practical experience in the Information Security Architecture field, with an emphasis on application and data security, architecture and authorization approaches (role-based access control, direct entitlements-based).
Strong understanding of security architecture best practices, standards and frameworks.
Ideally with proven experience with assessment of BI and Big Data Applications.
Extensive architecture and delivery hands-on experience in more than one BI or Big Data platforms
Good knowledge of any Data Integration and/or DW tools is a plus
Strong communication (written/verbal) and collaboration skills
Leadership, consulting, negotiation and relationship skills
Experience working in large, geographically dispersed IT organizations and decentralized Security Model