# Senior Specialist - IT Security Delivery at Qiddiya Investment Company

> Open job at Qiddiya Investment Company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Workplace: On-site.

Source: Gulf Dev Jobs, https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/qiddiya-investment-company-senior-lead-it-security-delivery-1q6nfby
Posted 10 August 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 11 November 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [Qiddiya Investment Company](https://gulfdevjobs.com/companies/qiddiya-investment-company)
- Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Workplace: On-site
- Employment type: Full-time
- Arabic: Not required
- Skills: Go
- Not mentioned in the job post: salary, housing, flights, visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## Job description

JOB PURPOSE:

Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover, coordinating with the Design team for inputs. Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs across corporate and asset IT Security programs.

Core Responsibilities:

Readiness governance and gates

· Operate exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites (access, certs, backups, rollback).

· Supervise Go/No-Go forums and ensure documentation of risks, exceptions, and compensating controls with Cybersecurity sign-off.

· Maintain change calendars aligned to asset windows and blackout periods.

Test planning, data, and environments

· Supervise the build of end-to-end test plans covering functional, negative, resilience, and integration scenarios.

· Ensure observer participation (Ops, platform SMEs) for test credibility.

Defect, risk, and issue management

· Manage defect triage; assign owners/severity; track fix SLAs and re-tests.

· Maintain RAID logs; escalate blockers; quantify residual risk at release.

Validation packs and traceability

· Supervise compilation of validation packs (plans, results, evidence, traceability matrices); ensure versioned storage and approvals.

· Ensure achievement of first-pass acceptance by QA/Excellence and ensure quick resolution of returns.

Handover and run readiness

· Validate runbooks, monitoring/alerting, and L1/L2 training completion; confirm operational SLOs and DR artifacts.

· Confirm SIEM/SOAR mappings and case workflows prior to go-live.

· Stakeholder coordination and communications

· Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish comms plans, RACI, and hyper care schedules.

· Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums.

Continuous improvement

· Track change success rate and checklists accordingly.

Security Control Evaluation, POC, and Implementation

· Lead the evaluation of IT Security controls, technologies, and solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, Cybersecurity requirements, business priorities, and operational needs.

· Oversee Proof of Concept activities, including scope definition, success criteria, stakeholder alignment, execution oversight, and outcome reporting.

· Assess solution suitability based on security effectiveness, integration capability, scalability, compliance alignment, operational impact, supportability, and long-term value.

· Recommend fit-for-purpose IT Security controls and technology solutions based on outcomes, risk reduction value, operational readiness, and enterprise direction.

**Requirements**

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is required.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred.

Years of Experience:

- 6-8 years in a relevant industry, preferably with majority in IT security delivery across corporate and asset environments.

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/qiddiya-investment-company-senior-lead-it-security-delivery-1q6nfby: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

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