Sr Project Manager​/Security Architect

Position:
Sr Project Manager/Security Architect

Location:

Onsite/Toronto

Job #: RQ09600

Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

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).

This role blends advanced information‑security architecture expertise
—especially within Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and SIEM platforms—with senior program leadership and project‑management capabilities.

You will manage end‑to‑end delivery
, embedding security‑by‑design principles to ensure protection of critical valued assets and enhanced security monitoring. Deliverables include planning, execution, and delivery of complex security infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity objectives, operational readiness, and compliance requirements.

You will collaborate closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure acceptance, timely execution, 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: backlog grooming, Sprint planning, change control
• Team leadership and mentoring of 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
• Gather and develop requirements; work with stakeholders and ITS project managers to maintain detailed project schedules and integrated plans
• 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 status updates to executives and sponsors
• Proactively identify and mitigate project and security risks; escalate when necessary and recommend compensating controls
• Ensure day‑2 supportability including knowledge transfer, runbooks, operational handover, and monitoring/dashboard enablement
• Champion OPS I&IT security and project‑management best practices; drive continuous improvement

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Must Have

• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience as a PM
• Advanced experience managing enterprise‑scale IT modernization and/or cybersecurity projects
• Deep understanding of security tools, technologies, processes, governance frameworks
• Extensive experience with cybersecurity domains, specifically Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM)
• Understanding of product‑management framework and delivery
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders and IT teams
• Experience working with large organizations/enterprise environments
• Experience with threat detection and threat intelligence
• Ideal candidate should have deployed SIEM‑related projects

Nice to Have

• CISSP or similar certifications
• Prior cybersecurity risk‑management (ISO) experience
• MITRE ATT&CK framework

1. Enterprise IT & Cybersecurity Leadership (40%)

• Advanced experience managing enterprise IT modernization and cybersecurity programs
• Deep expertise in information‑security domains and controls, including:
• DLP design and…