Chief Information Security Officer

Role & responsibilities:

1. Develop, implement and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program.

2. Work directly with the business units to facilitate risk assessment and risk management processes.

3. Develop and enhance an information security management framework.

4. Provide leadership to the enterprise's information security organization.

5. Partner with business stakeholders across the company to raise awareness of risk management concerns.

6. Assist with the overall business technology planning, providing a current knowledge and future

vision of technology and systems.

7. Asset and information classification as per their criticality.

8. Align business as per the Personal data protection Act.

9. Review the environments as per the approved policies and procedure.

10) Review the organisations policies and update them as per the requirement.

11) Coordinate with other teams like Dev-ops, product and development team to help them with

implementing security controls.

Skills & Requirements:

1. A bachelor's degree in computer science, Bsc (IT), IT Engineering.

2. Professional security management certification CISSP ,CISA or CISM.

3. Minimum of 12 to 15 years of experience in a combination of risk management, information

security and IT jobs.

4. Knowledge of common information security management standards and frameworks, such as

ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR and PCI-DSS.

5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity.

6. Innovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and motivate cross-functional,

interdisciplinary teams.

7. Experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management including managed services.

8. Specific experience in Agile/ CICD (scaled) software development or other best in class

development practices.

9. Experience with Cloud computing technology like AWS.

10. Fintech experience will be an added advantage.