Security Architect (Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Risk Management, NIST, CISSP)
Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)
Role Descriptions:
Team Description:
- 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:
- Implementing security controls for the organization
- Assessing the security level of applications
Job Summary and Purpose:
- As a Security Architect, you will lead pieces of architecture work for key CPP Investments systems and programs.
- 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 CPP Investments architecture vision through:
- Definition of architecture roadmaps
- Lead the design, development, and execution of security architecture strategies, ensuring alignment with:
- Organization security objectives
- Design and implement security architecture solutions across all systems and applications.
- Ensure architectures align with:
- Continuously assess and improve:
- Help build and maintain the solution architecture lifecycle and methodology appropriate to the wider enterprise architecture and CPP Investments IT capabilities, including the definition of:
- Function as a trusted security technical advisor who:
- Collaborates with business and technical stakeholders
- Helps drive optimum solutions
- Deliver collaborative architecture decisions for:
- Facilitate and contribute to architecture decisions for:
Core Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant experience as a Security Architect.
- Experience in information and cybersecurity, including:
- Experience providing strategic guidance in a large consulting organization is a plus.
- Deep technical or operational experience with broad knowledge across security disciplines such as:
- Experience with security frameworks:
- Experience with leading security technologies.
- Experience with Palo Alto SASE solution preferred.
- Possess one or more of the following industry certifications:
- CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional
- SABSA – Security Architecture
- Other industry-recognized Information Security certifications
Essential Skills:
- Information Security architecture experience.
- Experience designing and implementing security controls.
- Experience assessing application security levels.
- Security architecture strategies
Experience Required:
