Description

Join us in cultivating a collaborative workplace driven by unique perspectives. We’re proud PwC advances a culture that helps everyone to thrive. It's one of the reasons we're recognized as a "Top Company" to work for in Canada. As you ignite a meaningful career and build a network that’ll last for life, you'll work with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to help solve important problems, empowered by technology to turn today's ideas into tomorrow's solutions. We cultivate an environment in which our differences are embraced and our people feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. An empowering and diverse environment starts with you. Are you ready to get started?

A career in Products and Technology would provide you the opportunity to be part of an organization that is building a leading tech experience that solves big challenges for our firm and our clients. Our products and tech-driven solutions are how we move faster, cut through complexity and fuel growth. We start with the problem and solve it with experience and tech know-how. Our skilled technologists, data scientists, product managers and business strategists are passionate about using technology to accelerate change.

Our internal facing team is responsible for the planning and design of the overall vision when it comes to PwC products, accelerators and overall enterprise initiatives. We provide strategic and solution architecture direction in all aspects as we build out solutions for our business.

Reporting to the Chief Architect, a career in Development, within our Products & Technology organization, will provide you with the opportunity to invest in new business models that leverage our knowledge and build solutions for the growing digital market. Each new solution focuses on data-driven platforms or other intellectual property based solutions that leverage emerging technologies and new business models. Through the process of building new solutions, we foster a culture of innovation within PwC, extend brand relevance in the market, and generate new revenue.

As an Enterprise Security Architect, you will strategize, design, implement technology solutions helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Important point(s) to consider

Putting the safety of our people and clients first as we look to a hybrid future: The health, well-being and safety of our colleagues, clients, and communities is our number one priority. Vaccinations have proven to reduce the risk of COVID-19. Effective Friday, October 1, 2021, PwC Canada requires all partners, staff, contractors and visitors to be fully-vaccinated when entering a PwC location, subject to applicable legal exemptions. At PwC, the future ways of work will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual, allowing choice and flexibility to explore new ways of working and collaborating. Read this press release for further details.

What you’ll create and do

As a Senior Manager, you’ll work as a part of a team of problem solvers, helping solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Security Domain and Solution Architecture (80%)

Provide oversight for the continued development of the enterprise cyber security strategy through alignment with the enterprise security architecture

Create security architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals

Perform current and future state architectural review and control gap assessments against existing and planned security services, processes and technologies

Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts (e.g., patterns, models, templates, standards, workflows) that can be used to integrate security requirements in projects & operations

Provide guidance on security architecture, practices & solutions to help business units to build & deliver solutions that meet security requirements

Actively support the implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and compliance management of the Enterprise Architecture

Proactively assist the Enterprise Architects and the Chief Architect in assessing technology solutions

Design secure applications or services within the organization

Define security requirements

Lead the development of projects executed by our Development teams, and oversee and assess the development executed by Vendor’s teams

Execute periodical code reviews

Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria

Supervise and support Vendor’s developers in the context of projects

Continuous Improvement (20%)

Be actively involved in planned or unplanned business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients

Continue to improve our internal development and design techniques and maintain our documentation up to date

Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand

Continue to grow personal skills in alignment with the Company and team Strategy

Has worked extensively in large scale software solution implementations with hands-on experience

Experience working in agile teams and with product delivery

What you’ll bring to this role

An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work

A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences, developing and coaching diverse teams, and ensuring diverse perspectives are heard

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Azure/Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services certifications (Solutions Architect or Developer) preferred

Microsoft Development Certifications preferred

Security Certifications required. One of the following: CISSP, SSCP, CCSP, CSSLP

TOGAF certification preferred

Perform security assessments of third party and internal applications and networks to define security requirements, and evaluating processes, network designs, and access controls

Collaborate with developers, system/network administrators, and other stakeholders to ensure correct design, development, and implementation of applications and networks

Drive end-to-end architecture across security product offerings and lead the execution of critical architectural priorities for senior technology leaders to develop secure products

Demonstrated performance of security design/architecture reviews, code reviews, and penetration tests of large applications, systems and/or networks

Solution the development of projects executed by our Development teams, and oversee and assess the development executed by Vendor’s teams

Experience overseeing remediation of vulnerabilities and defining security requirements and a proven track record of working with infrastructure and development teams to build secure solutions

Cloud-ready architectures utilizing infrastructure and platform cloud services for Azure, AWS, GCP 

Service-oriented, event-driven and microservices architectures

Mobile/Web architecture stacks

Persistence such as RDBMS/NoSQL (MS SQL, Mongo DB) data stores and appropriate use cases

Containerization, and experience in using Docker and/or Kubernetes

DevOps such as CD/CI, virtualization, automation, continuous integration

Experience with Agile methodologies

Ability to understand the big picture and also delve into details

Strong problem solving and leadership skills

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication when working with product teams and working with end customers to understand and analyze feedback

Understands client’s needs, actively ensuring projects are on time and delivered above expectation

Determines cadence with practice and client