Cyber Security Solution Architect
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario
- Remote: Remote
- Type: Contract
- Job #35395
Myticas Consulting is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Solution Architect to support enterprise cyber security and digital transformation initiatives for our client in the financial services sector. This role will provide strategic cyber security architecture, technology risk advisory, governance, and AI security expertise while helping shape secure, resilient, and compliant enterprise technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide cyber security architecture and technology risk advisory services supporting enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Assess current and future-state technology architectures to ensure secure, resilient, and compliant solutions.
- Develop enterprise security strategies, architecture roadmaps, and governance frameworks.
- Perform security architecture reviews, threat modelling, technology risk assessments, and control gap analyses.
- Design and promote secure architecture patterns, reference architectures, and security standards.
- Advise on cloud security, application security, data protection, AI security, and emerging technology risks.
- Support security-by-design, privacy-by-design, governance, compliance, and audit initiatives.
- Evaluate technology, cyber, third-party, and operational risks while recommending practical mitigation strategies.
- Translate complex technical and cyber risks into clear business recommendations for executives and stakeholders.
- Produce architecture documentation, security assessments, reports, presentations, and governance artifacts.
- Facilitate workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Monitor evolving cyber security, AI, regulatory, and technology trends to strengthen enterprise security posture.
Required Qualifications
- University degree or College diploma in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Technology Risk, Enterprise Architecture, or related disciplines.
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Cyber Security Architect, Technology Risk Advisor, Enterprise Security Architect, or similar senior security role.
- Experience assessing current-state security environments and developing target-state security architectures and roadmaps.
- Experience designing, implementing, or governing enterprise security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, and digital platforms.
- Experience performing security architecture reviews, threat modelling, risk assessments, and security control gap analyses.
- Experience developing enterprise security standards, governance frameworks, architecture principles, and reusable security artifacts.
- Strong understanding of cyber security, technology risk, compliance, AI security, and emerging technology governance.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts and business risks to executives and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience facilitating workshops and collaborating across cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with NIST CSF, NIST Special Publications, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), ISO 27001/27002, COBIT, or similar governance frameworks.
- Experience implementing Security-by-Design and Privacy-by-Design principles.
- Knowledge of cloud, SaaS, hybrid infrastructure, AI security, identity management, resiliency, and data protection.
- Experience with third-party risk, operational risk, and vendor security management.
- Familiarity with Responsible AI, AI governance, explainability, and model risk management.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, TOGAF, SABSA, CRISC, CGRC, AIGP, CAISP, or equivalent.
Work Arrangement
- Fully Remote (Canada)
Additional Requirements
- Must be eligible to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (minimum 5 years residency in Canada required).