Principal Secuirty Engineer

Overview

Deep Light AI is a specialist AI and data consultancy with extensive experience implementing intelligent enterprise systems across multiple industries, with particular depth in financial services and banking. Our team combines deep expertise in data science, statistical modeling, AI/ML technologies, workflow automation, and systems integration with a practical understanding of complex business operations.

Deep Light AI is a specialist AI and data consultancy dedicated to transforming the regional corporate landscape through bespoke, high-impact intelligent systems. Based in the UAE, we partner with organizations across diverse sectors—with a deep-rooted expertise in Financial Services and Banking—to bridge the gap between complex data and actionable business strategy.

At Deep Light, we don't believe in "off-the-shelf" fixes. We deliver tailored AI solutions designed to integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise architectures, ensuring that innovation is both scalable and secure. From building robust data foundations to deploying sophisticated AI platforms, we empower our clients to lead in an increasingly automated world.

The Principal Security Engineer is the highest-level technical engineering authority within Deeplight consultancy, embedded directly within a major banking client. The role is responsible for the overarching design, structural integrity, and hands‑on implementation of core security controls across the bank's enterprise systems and infrastructure. Operating as a subject‑matter expert in cloud architectures, cryptographic controls, and identity ecosystems, this position works alongside enterprise architects and senior engineering squads to solve complex security challenges, ensuring the bank's digital assets are defended in strict alignment with global financial regulatory standards.

Your responsibilities in this role include:

• Architectural Design & Blueprinting:
  Lead the technical design of robust security patterns, reference architectures, and engineering baselines across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises systems
• Control Implementation:
  Oversee and execute the deployment of complex, enterprise‑grade security controls, focusing heavily on Identity and Access Management (IAM), data protection, and cryptographic infrastructures
• Technical Authority:
  Serve as the final escalation point and engineering authority for complex security flaws, configuration issues, and infrastructure vulnerabilities within the delivery work streams
• Encryption & Data Protection:
  Define, design, and implement enterprise encryption standards, key management life cycles (PKI/KMS), and tokenization strategies to protect sensitive financial data at rest and in transit
• Engineering Enablement:
  Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and mid‑level security engineers, establishing engineering best practices and validating code or infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) templates
• Strategic Advisory:
  Collaborate with senior leadership, risk committees, and client architecture boards to evaluate emerging technologies and ensure engineering roadmaps match the institution's risk tolerance

As an AI consultancy, our greatest asset is the expertise of our people. While technical mastery is the foundation of what we do, the ability to bridge the gap between complex data science and actionable business value is what defines your success with Deeplight. We're looking for individuals who are not only world‑class in their fields of specialism, but also compelling communicators and persuasive advocates for their own skills.

You will be the face of our firm, tasked with building trust, articulating the "why" behind your technical decisions, and effectively "selling" your vision to high‑level stakeholders. If you thrive on the challenge of presenting cutting‑edge solutions as much as you do on building them, you will fit right in.

• Professional Tenure:
  Minimum of 10 years in information security, system engineering, or infrastructure design, with at least 4 years operating in a Principal or Lead Engineer capacity
• Financial Services Context:
  Proven experience designing and engineering security controls within a…