Senior Manager, Information Security

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Why Meridian?

At Meridian our aspiration is to integrate our purpose into everything we do for people, the planet, and communities. We believe that our greatest opportunity is to create opportunity and meet people where they are.

Factor us into your next career opportunity. We want you to grow with us and have an experience that’s different. This is a place where you can expect the unexpected.

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The role:

Meridian is seeking a highly experienced Senior Manager to lead our cybersecurity team and drive the execution of our enterprise-wide Cyber Security Strategy.
In this pivotal role, you will develop and mentor a team of security specialists, oversee the cybersecurity Risk Assessment, Vulnerability Management and Security Awareness Programs, and lead the Computer Incident Response Team (CSIRT), ensuring rapid mitigation of threats to organizational assets.
You will play a critical role in shaping Meridian’s security architecture, standards and key cyber controls, including coordinating compliance activities, collaborating on strategic initiatives, evaluating new technologies, and championing continuous improvement in cybersecurity practices to safeguard Meridian’s reputation and assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development:
  • Mentor and coach a high-performing team of security professionals, fostering engagement and building competencies.
  • Conduct performance appraisals and support professional growth.
  • Allocate security resources to business project teams and manage priorities based on business needs and cybersecurity risks.
• Incident Response:
  • Lead and enhance Meridian’s Computer Incident Response Team (CSIRT), including annual tabletop exercises and executive reporting.
  • Oversee incident monitoring, escalation, and documentation to ensure rapid response to threats.
  • Design and govern incident response systems, including intrusion detection, security event management, and data loss prevention.
• Risk Assessment & Controls:
  • Lead organizational information security audits and risk assessments, ensuring timely delivery and quality output.
  • Collaborate with business units to remediate audit findings and implement security requirements for new and existing processes.
  • Design and implement security controls and standard configurations for information systems.
• Threat Intelligence:
  • Provide expertise on emerging threats and the external threat landscape.
  • Facilitate security monitoring and threat intelligence programs, and communicate risks to executives.
  • Develop threat intelligence communications standards and produce regular security reporting.
• Security Standards & Compliance:
  • Review and improve Enterprise security architecture, standards, procedures, and controls.
  • Coordinate compliance activities and ensure alignment with organizational policy and industry best practices.
  • Lead the security exception and exemption process, recommending actions where standards cannot be met.
• Vulnerability Management
  • Oversee the identification, assessment, and prioritization of vulnerabilities across Meridian’s technology environment, ensuring timely remediation and risk reduction.
  • Develop and maintain processes for continuous vulnerability scanning, reporting, and follow-up with relevant stakeholders to ensure closure of identified issues.
  • Collaborate with IT and business units to implement best practices and controls that minimize exposure to known and emerging threats.
• Security Awareness
  • Design and deliver comprehensive security awareness training initiatives to educate employees on cybersecurity risks, policies, and best practices.
  • Monitor program effectiveness through metrics, feedback, and periodic assessments, adapting content to address evolving threats and organizational needs.
  • Champion a culture of security awareness by promoting proactive behaviors, open communication, and ongoing engagement across all levels of the organization.
• General & Strategic Initiatives:
  • Provide subject matter expertise on corporate and operational projects.
  • Lead security assessments and audits, interpret results, and communicate recommendations.
  • Liaise with vendors and partners to ensure compliance with security requirements.
  • Represent Meridian within the broader financial institution cybersecurity community.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Working knowledge of techniques, technologies and processes for securing large infrastructures, including intrusion prevention and virus detection, firewalls, VPN technologies, authentication, encryption, Active Directory, Data Leak Prevention, Certificate services, protocol analysis and database security.
• Understanding of common networking protocols and services and their relevant security issues.
• Understanding of operations system and network security weaknesses, vulnerabilities and remediation.
• Ability to research, analyze and resolve complex problems and escalate issues as appropriate.
• Working knowledge of access control systems, cryptography, telecommunications, network and internet security, information security management, physical and operations security.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proactive - Seize the initiative by anticipating needs and identifying opportunities to provide a higher level of service.
• Open Communication - Engaging in honest and transparent dialogue to develop mutual understanding, trust and cultivate deeper relationships.
• Business Savvy - Continuously acquiring the knowledge needed to do one’s job to the fullest, using internal or external resources and applying the knowledge productively.
• Partner Orientation - Initiates opportunities for collaboration and maintains productive relationships to achieve shared goals.
• Integrity - Doing the right thing by always acting with openness, honesty and respect.
• Talent Developer: nurtures and supports direct reports, identifies strong team members, develops digital and analytical skills in direct reports
• Creates a Supportive and Positive Team Environment: creates and contributes to a positive team environment which encourages innovation, risk taking, and learning; speeds up team learning through sharing best practices; leverages the strengths and opportunities of the broader marketing team
  
  

This role represents an existing vacancy. Internal candidates are being considered as part of our standard process.

Salary Range: CAD $95,000 – $142,400 annually

Compensation for this role is based on a combination of skills, experience, and internal equity. Candidates with stronger alignment to the role’s requirements may be placed higher within the range. Your recruiter will share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process.

Office Location: Toronto Corporate Office with the ability to travel to our St. Catharines office as needed. This is a hybrid work opportunity.

Meridian has a remote work policy that allows flexibility for employees to work remotely but also requires a minimum of one day per week in the office for purposeful meetings to collaborate, innovate and build effective relationships with your team, your colleagues and your leader which is important to us.

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages teamwork, creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to delight your candidates and clients!
• You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders and colleagues, who have hailed from top organizations.
• Hybrid work arrangements with in-person office time to collaborate, innovate and build relationships with your colleagues.
• This is not your typical "corporate" job. We work hard and we have fun!

Build the Future of Banking with Us

At Meridian, we’re not just adapting to the future—we’re shaping it. We see talent as a catalyst for sustainable growth, community impact, and future-readiness. As the financial landscape evolves, we’re looking for team members who bring:

• Embedding & leveraging technology – Confidence and willingness to learn and integrate AI and emerging technologies into new ways of working. Experience with low/no code tools like the Microsoft Power Platform and generative AI productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot is considered an asset
• Critical Thinking – The ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret information from various sources and apply logic and problem solving to make decisions.
• Data Driven– Leverage data and insights to identify, prioritize and improve member experience and business efficiency.
• Curiosity & Flexibility – Comfortable navigating and embracing change and uncertainty, ask more questions, explore more options. Continuously learn and grow.

Who we are:

Meridian is Ontario’s largest credit union, and second largest in Canada, helping to grow the lives of our more than 380,000 Members. Meridian has more than 80 years of banking history and is 100% owned by its members. With 87 retail branches and 15 Business Banking Centers across Ontario and $ 32B in assets under management, Meridian offers a full range of financial products and services to its retail, business banking and wealth members. With over 2200 employees and corporate offices located in Toronto and St. Catharines, Meridian has a track record of creating and delivering innovative new offerings and is committed to investing in the communities that we serve. Our plan is to build on our momentum as we deliver on our purpose - helping our members achieve their best life.

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