{"id":2091032,"url":"https://alion.io/job/paymentscanada-senior-security-architect-6-month-term","title":"Senior Security Architect (6 Month Term)","company":{"id":1716135,"name":"Payments Canada","domain":"paymentscanada.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/paymentscanada","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Dayforce","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Ottawa, Canada","Toronto, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":100300,"max":null,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":70427},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":false},{"name":"OWASP","optional":false},{"name":"Threat Modeling","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-08T04:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-26T03:34:39Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-26T03:34:39Z","days_open":17,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":17},"description":"| What we are looking for\nReporting to the Manager, Security Architecture; the Senior Security Architect is responsible for developing solutions aligned with both business and strategic in maturing the Security Architecture function. \n\nA key priority for this role is ensuring solutions are designed with resilience from threats and remain compliant with evolving industry standards and financial regulations. As a critical stakeholder, the Senior ensures that Payments Canada’s security posture is resilient, proactive and seamlessly aligned with the organization’s strategic business objectives.\n\nContacts and Communications\nFoster trusted relationships across the organization and with external stakeholders to broker information security in a practical and sustainable manner.\nEstablish, build and maintain strategic relationships within and throughout the Payments ecosystem and build the influence and reputation of Payments Canada as a center of excellence.\nCollaborate with Payments Canada members, user groups, and security specialist groups to gather and provide information, advice and solutions on information security management issues. \n Facilitate technical working groups.\nChampion cyber security management at all levels and divisions of the organization, in support of Payments Canada’s goals.\n\nSecurity Architecture Technical Leadership\nAid in the development of a long-term Enterprise Security Architecture vision that supports the organization’s digital transformation while maintaining the integrity of the national payment rails.\nPartner with the cross-functional teams to develop and maintain Enterprise Security Architecture. Ensuring security requirements and principles are natively embedded into the overarching Enterprise Architecture Framework and integrated into all organizational business processes.\nLead the development and maintenance of secure solution architectures. Provide expert guidance and oversight on complex initiatives, ensuring that new designs proactively mitigate identified misuse cases, vulnerabilities and attack patterns through robust, resilient architectural patterns.\nDevelop and govern a multi-year Security Architecture roadmap that prioritizes investments based on an evolving threat landscape. Provide support across all Strategic Roadmap activities (ie. corporate core, payment systems, etc.) as required.\nLead the creation, maintenance and enforcement of security architecture policies and standards, ensuring they remain sound and compliant with ISO 27001/2 and regulatory frameworks.\nLead the development of reusable security reference architectures and design patterns to accelerate the delivery of secure systems across the IT organization.\nAct as a subject matter expert and mentor for Security Architects and Engineers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and continuous growth in architecture principles.\nUtilize a risk-based approach to identify security gaps in current architectures and propose architectural changes to remediate systemic vulnerabilities.\nCollaborate with business leaders and external stakeholders to present complex architectural recommendations and security strategies in a compelling, business-centric manner.\nParticipate in and maintain a culture of continuous learning and development to enable the security architectural function to continue to mature.\nRisks and Compliance\nContribute to Payments Canada’s security program to support the business objectives of Payments Canada ensuring that Payments Canada’s security policies, standards remain sound, that risks that could impact the organization’s ability to achieve its Architecture objectives are identified and mitigated.\nEnsure that security and compliance objectives are met in all aspects of the secure design based on ISO 27001/2, legal, privacy and regulatory frameworks.\nEnsure security controls within all solutions are designed and built using a risk-based approach and with respect to standards and industry best practices.\nArchitecture Research\nMonitor the industry (notable breaches, advancements in techniques and tactics, including but not limited to vulnerability assessments and penetration tests) to understand relevant misuse cases and attack patterns to continuously guide secure designs.\nMonitor industry trends and technological advancements to perform impact assessments and integrate forward leaning adaptations into the enterprise security roadmap. \nWork closely with teams including third party vendors to deliver resilient and secure architectures and solutions that align with Payment Canada’s strategy.\n| What you need to be successful\nUndergraduate degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.\nMinimum five (5) years of experience in a combination of information systems and information security.\nProven experience in establishing, maturing, and maintaining an enterprise security architecture function.\nExpert knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, ISO 27002, NIST, OWASP, and CPMI-IOSCO Guidance on cyber resilience for financial market infrastructures.\nAbility to identify and understand evolving cyber threats and trends, applying that knowledge to strengthen defenses through protective, detective, and compensating controls.\nDeep experience in threat modeling, penetration testing, application security testing, intelligence tradecraft, software design/architecture, cloud computing models, network security and/or IT infrastructure services.\nFamiliarity with supply chain security, third-party security outsourcing, secure procurement and technical audits.\nEligibility to obtain and maintain a Government of Canada Reliability Status Clearance and can successfully complete enhanced background checks that may be carried out by Payments Canada.\n| You will really stand out with\nPossession of senior security or architecture certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF, ISSAP) is highly desired. Technical certifications such as GSEC, GPEN, or OSCP are considered an asset.\nIn-depth knowledge of the Canadian financial services industry, federal government financial sector policy priorities, and international issues respecting the financial services sector.\nBilingualism (English and French) is considered an asset.\n\n| Salary range\nOur target starting rate for this role is $100,300 with flexibility based on your experience and qualifications. 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