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Job Type: Employee
Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs): N/A
Job Family: Application Development
# of Open Positions: 1
Faculty/Service - Department: Information Security, Information Technology
Campus: Main Campus
Union Affiliation: N/A
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2025/10/29
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2025/11/10
Hours per week: 35
Salary Grade: Non-Union Grade NM3
Salary Range: $129,272.00 - $161,590.00
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
The incumbent provides strategic leadership in the design, implementation, and governance of secure, business-driven IT solutions across the University. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer with a dotted line to the Enterprise Architect, this role translates complex business requirements into robust security architectures, ensuring alignment with University policies, Canadian regulatory standards, and industry best practices. The incumbent is responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all University IT assets and data, influencing security practices across faculties, services, vendors, and other stakeholders. By driving the development and continuous improvement of security frameworks and reference architectures, the role proactively addresses emerging threats and technological advancements. The incumbent works collaboratively with cross-functional teams to embed security principles in all IT projects, enabling the University's academic, research, and operational objectives while maintaining a strong security posture.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
Enterprise Security Assessment: Lead comprehensive, University-wide assessments of enterprise risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and anomalous activities to inform security planning and roadmaps aligned with business strategies and objectives.
Security Architecture Development: Define, document, and maintain current and target-state security architectures; identify gaps, conduct trend analyses, and recommend best practices for future-state design.
Principles and Standards: Establish and communicate institutional security architecture principles, standards, and reference models to guide the integration of security requirements into solutions across networks, infrastructure, applications, and services.
Architectural Design Leadership: Lead the architectural design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality IT infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic business needs, financial constraints, and technical requirements such as high availability and disaster recovery.
Planning and Security Roadmap: Develop and maintain security roadmaps, including oversight and regular assessment of disaster recovery and security procedures to ensure institutional information integrity.
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.
Certification in information security is required, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or other equivalent credentials.
Minimum ten years of progressive experience in IT security, with demonstrated expertise in IT security domains.
Strong understanding of risk-based approaches, as well as regulatory and compliance issues relevant to IT security.
Expert knowledge of network infrastructures (LAN, MAN, WAN), network security architecture, storage area networks, and server infrastructure in multi-technology environments.
Excellent business and technological acumen, leadership style, and organizational skills suited to managing multiple concurrent projects.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Bilingualism (French and English, oral and written).
Proven experience in systems integration, and in the planning and implementation of network security devices.
Demonstrated ability to estimate the financial impact of security architecture alternatives.
Knowledge of concepts, philosophies, and tools behind application, information, and IT architecture design.
Experience in building and maintaining effective working relationships with vendors and external partners.
Ability to apply project management methodologies to define, plan, cost, resource, track, and deliver targeted goals.
Experience in designing for accessibility, scalability, and availability.
Ability to proactively stay current with new and emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
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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 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.

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