Position: Project Manager 9600-0212
HM
Note:
This hybrid contract role is three (3) days in office. Candidate resumes must include first and last name, email and telephone contact information.
Description
• As a Senior Project Manager & Security Architect, you will lead large-scale, high-risk security platforms providing Detection Engineering, Threat Detection and Threat Intelligence programs that protect Ontario’s Critical Valued Assets (CVAs).
• You’ll combine advanced information-security architecture expertise, especially in Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence and SIEM platforms with senior program lead experience and project-management skills. You’ll manage end-to-end delivery, embed “security by design” principles to ensure protection of critical valued assets and enhanced security monitoring.
• Deliverables for the resource includes managing the planning, execution, and delivery of complex security infrastructure projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity objectives, operational readiness, and compliance requirements.
• You will collaborate closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure the successful acceptance, timely execution, and day-2 supportability and operability of all project changes and deliverables.
General Skills
• Senior leadership in enterprise security program delivery and technical design
• Deep understanding of information-security domains: DLP, data classification, encryption, database activity monitoring, IAM, network security
• Proficiency with structured project-management methodologies (e.g. PMBOK) and OPS I&IT frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and executive-level reporting
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Track record of facilitating change management in enterprise organizations
• Agile and Waterfall delivery experience, with hands-on backlog grooming, Sprint planning, and change control
• Team leadership and mentoring, guiding both security architects and project teams
• Familiarity with government/regulatory mandates (FIPPA, PHIPA, PCI DSS, AODA)
Key Responsibilities
• Act as Senior Program Lead across Detection Engineering, SIEM and Threat Intelligence security initiatives, balancing scope, schedule, budget, and quality
• Gathers and develops requirements and works with project stakeholders and ITS project managers to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Define and validate information security architecture for platform solutions, Threat detection,, Monitoring, and Threat Intelligence.
• Lead consultative workshops to capture business and security requirements, threat models, and “security by design” patterns
• Develop and manage integrated project schedules, resource plans, risk registers, and change-control processes
• Oversee vendor engagements, third-party integrations, and interoperability with SIEM , Threat Intelligence and SOAR platforms
• Chair Steering Committee and architecture-review boards; provide regular status updates to executives and sponsors
• Proactively identify and mitigate project and security risks, escalating when necessary and recommending compensating controls
• Ensure day-2 supportability: coordinate knowledge transfer, runbooks, operational handover, and monitoring/dashboard enablement
• Champion OPS I&IT security and project-management best practices, driving continuous improvement
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
1. Enterprise IT & Cybersecurity Leadership (40%)
• Candidate to demonstrate advanced experience managing enterprise scale IT modernization and/or cyber security projects and deep understanding of security tools, technologies, processes, governance frameworks
• Manage enterprise‐scale IT modernization and cybersecurity programs.
• Deep expertise in information security domains and controls, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) design and implementation, SIEM Integration, Threat Detection engineering and Threat Intelligence, encryption, tokenization, and key management
• Proficient with Identity & Access Management (SSO, MFA, PKI), network security controls (firewalls, NAC, SASE), and both cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-prem security domains
• Solid understanding of security operations tools…
