Security Solution Lead

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Are you an information security expert passionate about delivering solutions that safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise systems and data in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, while effectively balancing business needs? Join us in a dynamic, complex environment where you will influence ICBC's security program, ensuring alignment with established frameworks, policies and standards.

Position Highlights:

As a Security IS Solutions Leader in ICBC's Security & Networking department you will drive security solutions and play a pivotal role in evolving our security program and roadmap. You will take a proactive leadership role in addressing emerging threats and identifying gaps in our security posture, while leading the adoption of advanced security technologies and controls.

You will take on an essential leadership role:

• Providing technical security leadership, direction, and guidance to teams delivering corporate systems and business solutions.
• Providing strategic leadership on security controls, solutions, and technologies to continuously enhance our security program and protect both on-premises and cloud systems and data.
• Collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure business technology decisions align with security policies and standards.
• Creating or enhancing security architecture decisions, solution architectures, and solution designs.
• Leading the evaluation, design, and implementation of security technologies and services ensuring robust, scalable, and effective security in our hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
• Promoting the security program across the enterprise, building relationships and ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Communicating complex security concepts clearly at all organizational levels, influencing outcomes, and ensuring alignment with security best practices, frameworks, policies and standards.
• Mentoring junior staff to strengthen their security knowledge and expertise in security practices, tools, and technologies.

You are committed to continuous learning and your deep and evolving knowledge of best practices, emerging trends and changes in the cybersecurity space will play a key part in your success in this role.

Position Requirements:

To make an immediate contribution, you will bring extensive security domain knowledge and:

• Proven expertise and experience in IT Security principles and standards, systems and tools, and trends and best practices.
• Experience in a wide range of security practices and solutions including identity and access management, endpoint security, network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident handling, public key infrastructure, cloud security, and emerging concepts like SASE and zero trust.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build relationships and establish rapport across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Proven decision-making abilities and a strong track record of evaluating risks and benefits of potential options and assessing their impact on both security and organizational goals.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to influence and negotiate productive, effective outcomes and solutions.
• Hands-on experience authoring security architecture decisions and solution design documents, with a proven ability to socialize them with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and gain buy-in.
• Excellent planning, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of the methodologies, concepts, standards, and practices of project and change management.

These requirements are typically obtained through an undergraduate degree in a related field and several years of progressive experience in information security, complemented by professional security certifications such as CISSP or CCSP.

Position Information:

• ICBC provides comprehensive and flexible benefit coverage to all eligible employees including a defined benefit pension plan.
• Three options of health and dental coverage. Two of those options fully paid by ICBC and with access to Flex credits.
• 100% employer paid life insurance, long-term disability and travel insurance.
• Sick leave plan - 100% of pay for a period of a maximum of 8 weeks plus 85% of your pay for a subsequent period of up to 9 weeks.
• Additional optional insurance coverages.
• Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered for this position.

About us:

At ICBC, it's our job to make sure the car insurance system works for all British Columbians, today and in the future. If you want to make the most of your skills and expertise while growing your career, we want you. A career at ICBC is an opportunity to be part of a talented, diverse and inclusive team that is driven to serve its customers and community. You can expect a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits and a collaborative work environment. If you are reliable and dependable, contact us today to be part of our talented and diverse team as we work together to create an insurance system we can all be proud of.

Work Arrangements:

• Resident: You will work at your primary in-office headquarters on all scheduled work days.
• Hybrid 8: You will work a minimum of 8 days in a 4-week period at your primary office headquarters (typically 2 days per week). The remaining days will be remote within British Columbia.
• Hybrid 10: You will work a minimum of 10 days in a 4-week period at your primary office headquarters (typically one week in/one week out or up to 3 days per week). The remaining days will be remote within British Columbia.
• Mobile: You will work a significant amount of time in the field, in addition to working from an office and optionally working remotely within British Columbia.