Cyber Security Solutions Architect

Are you an expert security architect looking to shape the future of enterprise cyber resilience? We are seeking a Cyber Security Solutions Architect to join a high-profile Cyber Resilience Transformation Program for a prominent Canadian financial institution. In this strategic role, you will lead the design, target-state architecture, and roadmaps for the organization's entire Identity and Access Management (IAM) ecosystem and Zero Trust initiatives. This position sits at the intersection of modern cybersecurity and emerging technology, giving you the unique opportunity to pioneer security governance frameworks for AI agents and machine-to-machine workloads while advancing Zero Trust principles across the entire enterprise.

Advantages
- Step into the cutting edge of cybersecurity by leading the development of agentic identity management capabilities and governing the secure adoption of AI agents.
- This is a highly strategic role where you will define enterprise-wide security roadmaps, establish design patterns, and provide critical technical governance over complex solutions.
- Enjoy the balance of a 100% remote work structure coupled with the stability of a multi-year enterprise transformation mandate.

Responsibilities
- Provide senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) guidance, advisory, and architecture services to support institutional objectives and cyber resilience initiatives.
- Develop the strategic direction, target-state architecture, and roadmap for IAM capabilities across the organization.
- Lead the advancement of Zero Trust identity principles across users, workloads, applications, devices, services, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Create enterprise architectures and governance models aligned with security, privacy, operational, and regulatory requirements.
- Establish authentication, authorization, and access governance patterns leveraging Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, and related technologies.
- Establish standards and design patterns for identity governance, lifecycle management, access certification, entitlement management, and privileged access.
- Develop the approach to non-human identities, including service accounts, workload identities, APIs, secrets, certificates, and machine-to-machine access.
- Lead the development of agentic identity management capabilities and governance models to support the secure adoption of AI agents.
- Implement authorization models, lifecycle controls, monitoring requirements, and governance processes for AI agent identities.
- Review and provide technical guidance for solution designs, implementation approaches, and deliverables produced by project teams and service providers.
- Identify capability gaps, technology risks, and control deficiencies, and build actionable remediation roadmaps.
- Collaborate across cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, application, and data teams to seamlessly embed identity controls into technology solutions.
- Produce executive-ready recommendations, architecture deliverables, standards, and roadmaps for leadership and governance forums.

Qualifications
- Active Security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.
- University Degree or College Diploma in computer science, information security, engineering, or a related field.
- Recent years of demonstrated experience in IT, IAM, or cyber security.
- Recent experience as an IAM architect or identity security consultant in complex, regulated environments.
- Proven experience assessing current-state capabilities and defining target-state security/IAM architectures and roadmaps.
- Demonstrated experience designing and governing security controls, including identity governance, privileged access management (PAM), authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust capabilities.
- Ability to identify compliance control gaps and developing standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance frameworks.

Summary
If you meet the above-listed criteria, register for a Randstad account online if you have not yet registered, and please apply directly online. We appreciate all applicants and those interested in this opportunity, however, only those with relevant experience will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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