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 :

Faculty / Service - Department :

IT Security

Campus : Main Campus

Union Affiliation : N / A

Date Posted (YYYY / MM / DD) :

2025 / 11 / 14

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY / MM / DD) :

Hours per week :

35

Salary Grade : Non-Union Grade NM1

Salary Range :

$104,880.00 - $131,101.00About 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.

The position will remain open until the role is filled. Application are being reviewed on an ongoing basis.

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 :

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.