Security Architect - Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, IAM & NIST

Security Architect

Toronto ON - Hybrid (2-3 Days WFO)

6-12 months

The Information Security team partners with departments to advance technology and third-party information cyber risk management capabilities that enable the Fund to compete effectively and take advantage of innovative technologies.

The Security Architecture Engineering team is responsible for determining designing and implementing security controls for the organization including assessing the security level of applications.

Job summary and purpose

As a Security Architect you will lead pieces of architecture work for key client systems and programs. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to help define the solution architecture and ensure it aligns with the enterprise vision and architecture strategy.

Major accountabilities

• Support the implementation and delivery of the client architecture vision through the definition of architecture roadmaps transition architectures and solution documents.
  
• Lead the design development and execution of security architecture strategies ensuring they align with the organizations security objectives and business goals.
  
• Design and implement security architectures solutions across all systems and applications.
  
• Ensure these architectures align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
  
• Continuously assess and improve security processes procedures and infrastructure to ensure they are effective efficient and compliant.
  
• Help build and maintain the solution architecture lifecycle and methodology appropriate to the wider enterprise architecture and client IT capabilities including the definition of artefacts deliverables models processes roles and responsibilities.
  
• Function as a trusted security technical advisor that collaborates with both business and technical stakeholders sets direction builds consensus mediates conflicts and helps to drive optimum solutions.
  
• Ensure adherence to architecture processes standards and principles to deliver solutions with high performance agility reuse etc.
  
• Deliver collaborative architecture decisions for the technical infrastructure and application environments facilitate and contribute to architecture decisions for the business and information environments.
  

Core Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
  
• 10 years of relevant experience as a Security Architect
  
• Experience in information and cybersecurity including strategy design implementation and monitoring.
  
• Experience providing strategic guidance in a large consulting organization is a plus.
  
• Deep technical or operational experience with broad knowledge across various security disciplines such as access management cloud security and risk management .
  
• Experience with security frameworks like NIST CSF and a variety of leading security technologies.
  
• Experience with Palo Alto SASE solution preferred
  
• Possess one or more of the following industry certifications
  
• CISSP
  
• CISA
  
• CISM
  
• CCSP Certified Cloud Security Professional
  
• oSABSA - Security Architecture
  
• o Other industry recognized Information Security certifications
  

Key responsibilities

Team Description

The Information Security team partners with departments to advance technology and third-party informationcyber risk management capabilities that enable the Fund to compete effectively and take advantage of innovative technologies.

The Security Architecture Engineering team is responsible for determining designing and implementing security controls for the organization including assessing the security level of applications.

Job summary and purpose

As a Security Architect you will lead pieces of architecture work for key client systems and programs. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to help define the solution architecture and ensure it aligns with the enterprise vision and architecture strategy.

Required Skills:

60-70

Required Education:

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