Lead Consultant

Responsibilities/Duties

• Work with the business and technical teams to define scalable, available, and resilient end to end solutions spanning digital front and back-end systems considering the enterprise architecture strategy in the appropriate security domains.
• Contribute to the production and maintenance of architecture artifacts in relation to project assigned to him/ her e.g. CIAM, SIEM, IGA, CLM, Public Cloud, Data protection, Threat and Fraud Management, and Application/Network/ Endpoint/Infrastructure security.
• Subject matter expert contributing to security reviews.
• Have in depth understanding of technology solutions, including cloud, containerization, virtualization, CI/CD APIs, and n-tier application stack.
• Expert knowledge in public (AWS, Azure) and private cloud implementations
• Well versed in network architecture and best practices
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of the technology application and infrastructure roadmaps to modernize platforms to meet business objectives.
• Demonstrate analytical mindset with strong affinity for problem solving in complex environments.
• Influence the Bank's strategic orientation by implementing technological solutions that optimize the quality of services and operations.
• Ensure solutions being proposed are viable and balance strategic and tactical goals and meet project budget and timelines.
• Perform analysis to understand the impact of changes to upstream and downstream systems.
• Contribute to the growth of the architecture practice by helping define enterprise architecture objectives and standards.
• Provide subject matter expertise, help lead the technical teams and be a trusted advisor to the business.
• Work closely with Solution, Infrastructure and Data architects to ensure all facets of architecture are being considered.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and negotiation skills required to clearly articulate and explain the proposed solution to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with license and capacity planning
• Work closely with vendors for outsourced solutions. Review vendor solutions and recommendations
• Ability to work across multiple projects / development stream initiatives in parallel.

Minimum Requirements

• Good years of core cybersecurity experience implementing security solutions for large programs with excellent understanding of how to build resilient systems in a complex ecosystem.
• Proven experience working in a highly complex multi platform 24/7 environment.
• Must be experienced in creating a strategic cyber security technology direction, aligning it with tactical activities, and communicating plans broadly across the organization.
• Working knowledge in network, storage, application development, Operating Systems, CIAM, PAM, SSO, encryption standards.
• Prior experience of working with information security frameworks and standards including the NIST Cyber Security Framework, NIST 800-53, OWASP, PCI DSS and OSFI in agile work environment.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Knowledge of the banking and financial sectors
• Experience in Enterprise or solution architecture.
• Strong team player with demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in design and development of high availability platforms
• Experience working across multiple large-scale cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• CISSP and one of the Cloud Security certifications (CCSP, AWS SS, Az 500) is a must.