Lead, Security Architecture & Engineering, Information & Corporate Security (12-month contract)

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

Job Description

Team Description

Information Security partners with departments to advance technology and third-party information/cyber risk management capabilities that enable the Fund to compete effectively and take advantage of innovative technologies. The Security Architecture & Engineering team is responsible for determining, designing, and implementing security controls for the organization, including assessing the security level of applications.

Job Summary and Purpose

As a Security Architect, you will lead pieces of architecture work for key CPP Investments systems and programs. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to help define the solution architecture and ensure it aligns with the enterprise vision and architecture strategy.

Major Accountabilities:

• Support the implementation and delivery of the CPP Investments architecture vision, through the definition of architecture roadmaps, transition architectures, and solution documents.
• Lead the design, development, and execution of security architecture strategies, ensuring they align with the organization's security objectives and business goals.
• Design and implement security architectures solutions across all systems and applications. Ensure these architectures align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously assess and improve security processes, procedures, and infrastructure to ensure they are effective, efficient, and compliant.
• Help build and maintain the solution architecture lifecycle and methodology appropriate to the wider enterprise architecture and CPP Investments IT capabilities, including the definition of artefacts, deliverables, models, processes, roles, and responsibilities.
• Function as a trusted security technical advisor that collaborates with both business and technical stakeholders, sets direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts, and helps to drive optimum solutions.
• Ensure adherence to architecture processes, standards and principles to deliver solutions with high performance, agility, reuse, etc.
• Deliver collaborative architecture decisions for the technical infrastructure and application environments; facilitate and contribute to architecture decisions for the business and information environments.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field. 
• 10+ years of relevant experience as a Security Architect
• Experience in information and cybersecurity, including strategy design, implementation, and monitoring.
• Experience providing strategic guidance in a large consulting organization is a plus.
• Deep technical or operational experience with broad knowledge across various security disciplines such as access management, cloud security, and risk management.
• Experience with security frameworks like NIST CSF and a variety of leading security technologies.
• Experience with Palo Alto SASE solution preferred
• Possess one or more of the following industry certifications:
  • CISSP / CISA / CISM
  • CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional
  • SABSA - Security Architecture
  • Other industry recognized Information Security certifications

Additional Information

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.