Technical Design Lead, IT Security

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Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):

N/A

Job Family:

IT Security

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

IT Security

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted:

July 14, 2025

Applications must be received BEFORE:

July 25, 2025

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NM1

Salary Range:

$104,880.00 - $131,101.00

About Information Technology:

Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services. This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

In a nutshell: working here is challenging and rewarding. It’ll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education. We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle. And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.

Position Purpose
Reporting to the Senior Manager, IT Security, the incumbent designs, develops, implements, integrates, tests and manages solutions to support the University’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) business objectives. Involved in all phases of systems analysis, both the planning of system development and the technical design University wide. The systems impacted include large-scale mission critical systems. Provides leadership and guidelines in the implementation of solutions, ensuring the use of best practices while adhering to established University architectural standards. Works with stakeholders to plan, estimate, prioritize and assign work to technical resources. Supports and maintains operational applications and works on the design, testing and improvement of the applications that support various endeavours.  Works with minimum supervision and acts as a specialist with a deep knowledge of complex technologies to enable and support critical University-wide systems and supporting technologies.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Team Lead: Supervise a team of Senior Analysts to plan, estimate, prioritize and assign work to technical resources.  Provides advice to staff regarding system development methods, design alternatives and technical options.
• Planning, Design and Deployment: Works closely with the Product Manager responsible for IAM with respect to design guidance based on a thorough understanding of the appropriate mission-critical systems and their underlying technology.
• Support and Consulting:  Works closely with the other technical and architecture teams to perform in-depth reviews of suitable options and of the existence of delivered functionality before customizing platforms.  Provides supporting documentation to request, justify, and implement any customization deemed necessary.
• Project Management: Works closely with the Senior Manager and Product Manager to oversee overall systems testing, systems performance and migration of projects to the Production environment.  Ensures that appropriate controls and progress reports are prepared regularly.  Ensure that risks are monitored and that risk-mitigation strategies are implemented when necessary.
• Troubleshooting and Incident Response: Builds strong relationships with stakeholders to effectively troubleshoot and resolve system issues. Documents all problems, diagnosis, and resolutions for problems, including effective support for contingency planning.

What you will bring:

• A University degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in identity & access management, security, or related area.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in solution development, platform engineering, and implementation. 
• Advanced knowledge of various programming languages and scripting languages (e.g.: Java, JavaScript, Python, Node, PowerShell, etc.) and of computing hardware, software and software development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including access certification, RBAC, ABAC, identity lifecycle management, and policy enforcement. 
• Extensive experience designing end-to-end business system solutions in a complex application and technology environment.
• In-depth knowledge of IAM protocols and standards such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP, and SCIM.
• Experience in integrating IAM solutions with cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience working on large-scale mission critical systems such as but not limited to Saviynt.
• Proficiency in IAM, SSO, MFA, PAM, and other access management solutions.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, middleware, and automation.
• Proficiency in database management, including SQL and Oracle.
• In-depth analytical skills for complex problem solving – identification, diagnosis, resolution.
• Leadership skills, ability to coach and mentor other IT professionals.
• Knowledge of the University’s information technology policies, procedures and standards would be considered an asset.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with all levels of management and staff.
• Strong change management skills and adaptability to evolving technologies.
• Bilingualism – French and English (written and spoken).

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.