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About the Role

Payments Canada is seeking a Lead, Security Architect to drive consistent security strategy and contribute to the technology vision through secure-by-design architectural governance. This role provides strategic technical leadership across diverse programs, focusing on ensuring mission-critical solutions are secure, resilient, and proactive. The Lead Security Architect will act as a broad security generalist with deep expertise in threat modeling and solution security principles to guide teams, assess risk, and align architectural design with business objectives.

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain strategic relationships across IT, engineering, and business units to gain buy-in for security architecture standards and principles.
Communicate complex security recommendations, risk evaluations, and architectural trade-offs to senior leadership in clear, business-centric terms.
Collaborate closely with delivery teams, developers, and technical specialists to provide practical security guidance on complex system issues.
Champion security-first design patterns, promoting a culture of secure development across all divisions.
Provide strategic security guidance to product teams and solution architects, setting a high standard for defensive system engineering.
Lead threat modeling and knowledge-transfer sessions across the enterprise to embed security early in the development lifecycle.
Act as a senior technical contributor, offering security governance, design reviews, and guidance to manage technical security debt.
Mentor staff and foster continuous learning around emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and secure design practices.
Lead multi-year programs involving internal and external stakeholders.
Lead the establishment and maturation of enterprise security architecture frameworks across infrastructure, cloud, and applications.
Integrate threat modeling into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to identify, prioritize, and mitigate architectural flaws early.
Define, maintain, and enforce security policies, baseline standards, and secure design patterns.
Develop reusable security reference architectures, data flow diagrams, and threat maps to accelerate secure delivery.
Oversee application security assessments, secure design reviews, and risk analyses for critical systems.
Assess systemic risks and prioritize remediation strategies in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
Define risk-based security controls aligned with industry frameworks (e.g., NIST, OWASP, ISO 27001).
Proactively identify architectural risks and software vulnerabilities to safeguard corporate resilience and regulatory compliance.
Maintain currency with leading Security Architecture frameworks, security capabilities and threat modeling methodologies.
Monitor evolving global threat vectors, vulnerability trends, and security technologies to keep enterprise designs future-ready.
Evaluate security tooling, lead proofs-of-concept for security controls, and drive innovation in automation of security tooling.
Partner with third-party vendors and system integrators to ensure external solutions meet organizational security standards.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
Minimum seven (7) years of experience in IT/security, including at least five (5) years of progressive experience in security or solution architecture across multiple security domains (network, cloud, app sec, IAM).
Demonstrated experience conducting threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE, PASTA, Mitre Attack) and evaluating application security risks (e.g., OWASP Top 10) in modern software architecture.
Minimum five (5) years of experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, SABSA) and recognized security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CSSLP).
Eligibility to successfully complete enhanced background checks that may be carried out by Payments Canada, including criminal, credit, identity, employment, education, international security, and open-source media checks.

Skills

Threat modeling
Solution security principles
Security architecture
Security strategy
Risk assessment
Architectural design
Security frameworks
Defensive system engineering
Enterprise architecture frameworks
Security certifications
Cloud security
Application security
Network security
IAM
NIST
OWASP
ISO 27001
CI/CD pipelines
Container security
DevSecOps

Location

Hybrid (remote/office)

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
Lead

Education Level

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.

Salary/Compensations

$119,850

Benefits

Flexible, hybrid (remote/office) environment.
Competitive compensation package, including annual variable bonus and defined contribution pension plan with employer matching percentage (if eligible).
Comprehensive health and dental benefit coverage, including mental health coverage, life insurance and a health spending account for you and your dependents (Permanent and temporary employees with contracts 12 months and over).
Paid time off: minimum four weeks paid vacation, sick and personal days, December holiday shutdown and cultural holiday observance days.
26 weeks of paid maternity and parental leave top-up (if eligible)
Rewards and recognition program.
Access to office gym facilities.
Internal and external professional development opportunities.
Fun team and organizational events.
Monthly all staff forums led by our Executive Leadership Team.

About the Company

Payments Canada is at the forefront of the Canadian payment ecosystem, making payments easier, smarter and safer for all Canadians.
We own and operate payment systems that process hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of payment transactions every business day.
We are a public purpose, non-profit organization situated at the center of Canada’s payment ecosystem.
We adhere to a set of values: Inspire trust, build community and enable change.
Our culture fosters authenticity, collaboration, innovation and development, empowering one another and making meaningful contributions that impact the organization and the country.

Equal Opportunity

At Payments Canada, we are dedicated to fair, transparent and inclusive hiring.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
Our recruitment process uses automated tools, but not generative AI, to objectively screen and evaluate applications and confirm that a candidate’s qualifications meet job requirements.
It is important to remember that these tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making.
Our trained recruitment professionals and hiring managers always make the final hiring decisions.
We are committed to making everyone feel they can be themselves and thrive at work.
We will continue to build on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all forms and collectively create an inclusive and equitable culture where our differences are valued.
We are committed to employment equity and actively encourage applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities.
If selected for an interview, please advise us if you require special accommodation by emailing hrinfo@payments.ca.
Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.