Executive Manager – Squad Cyber Technical Lead | Dicetek | UAE

Job Title: Executive Manager – Squad Cyber Technical Lead | Dicetek | UAE

Recruiting Company: Dicetek

Job Location: United Arab Emirates

Job Type: Full-Time | Executive Leadership Role

Application Method: Send your updated CV to vinita@dicetekindia.com

Location: UAE
Executive-Level Cybersecurity Leadership Position
Banking & Financial Services Environment
DevSecOps, AI Governance & Cloud Security Focus
Strong Regulatory & Compliance Oversight Responsibilities

Position Summary

Dicetek is seeking an experienced Executive Manager – Squad Cyber Technical Lead to oversee enterprise-wide DevSecOps, AI Governance, Continuous Security Validation, and Compliance Assurance initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment. This role will serve as the primary First Line of Defense (1LoD) cybersecurity leader responsible for implementing security controls, driving secure software delivery, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting inspection-readiness in alignment with UAE banking regulations.

Detailed Job Description

As the Executive Manager – Squad Cyber Technical Lead, you will lead a multidisciplinary cybersecurity squad responsible for delivering secure development, AI governance, security assurance, and compliance monitoring capabilities across the organization. You will function as the key liaison between business units, security governance teams, and the AI Center of Excellence while ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing enterprise security tooling platforms, driving DevSecOps adoption, leading Security Champion initiatives, and enabling secure AI and cloud transformation programs. This role requires deep expertise across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, AI/LLM security, governance frameworks, and banking-sector regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Lead delivery across four key cybersecurity workstreams:

• Application Security (AppSec)
• AI Governance
• Continuous Security Validation
• Compliance & Audit Trail Management

Ensure adherence to approved security policies, standards, SLAs, and regulatory requirements.

Maintain organizational readiness for regulatory inspections and cybersecurity audits.

Own and govern the enterprise security tooling ecosystem including:

• SonarQube
• Snyk
• ServiceNow IRM
• Security Agent Platforms
• Claude
• Codex
• Open Policy Agent (OPA)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• AWS Security Hub
• DefectDojo

Drive tooling consolidation, platform optimization, and integration architecture initiatives.

Manage enterprise evidence and attestation workflows from DefectDojo through reporting and dashboarding platforms.

Act as the primary First Line of Defense (1LoD) cybersecurity representative engaging with Second Line of Defense (2LoD) functions.

Collaborate closely with the AI Center of Excellence on AI governance and AI risk controls.

Chair Security Champions Guild meetings and drive secure development culture initiatives.

Resolve cross-workstream priorities and security delivery conflicts.

Present DevSecOps Governance dashboards and security performance reports to governance committees and risk stakeholders.

Support cloud security, DevSecOps, AI security, and compliance transformation programs.

Drive continuous improvement across security engineering, policy implementation, and security automation initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

10+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience.

Proven leadership experience managing enterprise cybersecurity programs and engineering teams.

Strong banking, financial services, or highly regulated industry experience.

Demonstrated experience within Three Lines of Defense (3LoD) operating models.

Experience implementing controls in First Line of Defense environments while engaging with governance and assurance functions.

Mandatory Certifications

CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

Plus one or more of:

CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional)

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate

And one or more of:

CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)

ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer

Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) or equivalent

Required Technical Skills

DevSecOps Engineering

Application Security (AppSec)

AI Security & Governance

Large Language Model (LLM) Securi