Project Manager 9600
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- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- 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 (SIEM , SOAR, EDR), Threat Intelligence Platforms and governance frameworks (PMBOK, ITIL, ISO 27001, FIPPA/PHIPA)
- Candidates should demonstrate the ability to lead complex, high-risk projects through the following skill areas:
- Attention to detail, critical thinking, defining input mechanisms, strategic planning, risk identification, logical analysis
- Facilitating group discussions, engaging reluctant stakeholders, negotiation, relationship building, executive presentations, active listening
- Building consensus, setting measurable objectives, enforcing timelines, prioritization, goal orientation
- Aligning initiatives with emerging strategy, creative brainstorming, evaluating solutions, identifying obstacles, multitasking, stress tolerance
- 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
- Extensive experience with cyber security domain, specifically - Security incident and event management - SEIM.
- understanding of product management framework and delivery.
- Strong communication working with various stakeholders and managing team specifically with IT teams.
- Experience working with large organizations / Enterprise.
- Experience with threat detection and threat intelligence.
- Prior cyber security risk management (ISO) exp.
- MITRE attack framework
- Prior OPS or public experience