Enterprise Security Architect Lead

Chalhoub Group is seeking an Enterprise Security Architect Lead to define and lead the Group's Enterprise Security Architecture capability, ensuring security is embedded by design across business transformation, technology delivery, digital innovation, and operational change. This role owns the enterprise security architecture strategy, standards, governance, and target-state roadmap, providing architectural leadership across the Group's technology landscape. We invite all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future.

Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East for over seven decades. As a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group curates over 10 owned brands and distributes over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories. They deliver seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps, driven by innovation and a people-at-heart culture.

Company Overview

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories. Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally. Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LatAm. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work® certification in several markets. Sustainability is at the core of the Group’s strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Qualifications: bachelors-degree
• Experience: 10 Year+

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own and continuously evolve the Group Enterprise Security Architecture strategy, standards, principles and target-state roadmap.
• Establish security architecture patterns and reference architectures that support business transformation and technology modernisation.
• Drive continuous improvement of the Group's enterprise security architecture capability and maturity.
• Own the Security Design Authority and provide governance for enterprise architecture decisions, security design standards, architecture exceptions and technology risk across the Group.
• Ensure security is embedded throughout the technology lifecycle and incorporated into solution design from inception.
• Govern architecture decisions, design exceptions and technology risk to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.

Requirements

• Minimum 10–12 years' experience in Enterprise Security Architecture.
• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise security architecture within a complex, global organisation.
• Demonstrated experience leading security architecture across large-scale business transformation, cloud adoption and enterprise technology modernisation programmes.
• Experience providing architectural governance for enterprise platforms, digital products and third-party technology solutions.
• Strong experience influencing senior technology leaders, enterprise architects and executive stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience across Enterprise Security Architecture, Security by Design and Secure Engineering principles, Enterprise Architecture and Architecture Governance, Cloud & Hybrid Security Architecture, Identity & Access Management, Infrastructure, Network & Platform Security, Application, API & Data Security, DevSecOps and Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), Zero Trust Architecture, Cyber Risk Management and Security Governance, Emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and Automation.

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• Exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility.
• Diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary.
• Competitive benefits package including health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies.
• Exclusive employee discounts.