Sr Enterprise Architect, Security

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Position Highlights

We have an exciting opportunity for a leader to play a key role in defining, realizing, and leveraging the ICBC’s future technology vision. As Senior Enterprise Architect, Security, you will secure ICBC’s existing systems while supporting efficient, customer-driven, and future-focused solutions. You will provide security architecture and IT advisory services, including developing standards and reference architectures, and ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

This role is part of the Enterprise Architecture team, accountable for oversight and strategic guidance of ICBC IT systems supporting business operations.

In this role, you will use your business acumen, strategic thinking, and learning agility to:

• Security – Review security architectures to identify gaps and recommend enhancements. Develop and maintain enterprise security strategies, target-state architectures, roadmaps, technology standards, reference architectures, and security governance processes to enable secure solutions aligned with ICBC's Information Security Policies and strategic objectives.
• Cloud – Leverage leading cloud technologies, security practices, and architectural patterns to support and accelerate ICBC's cloud transformation journey.
• Leadership – Lead, influence, and drive organizational and technology change through collaboration, governance, and effective decision-making.
• Stakeholder Engagement – Act as an information security expert and trusted advisor to IT and business partners, identifying, engaging, and influencing stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Position Requirements

You bring experience working in medium to large organizations, with the ability to understand business direction and develop security strategies, architectures, and governance practices to support ICBC's hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

You bring a minimum of 5 years of experience:

• Developing and maintaining enterprise security strategies, reference architectures, architecture patterns, technology standards, and governance processes that support the secure adoption of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and on-premises solutions. This includes cloud-native solutions, hybrid architectures, and cloud migration initiatives.
• Absorbing large amounts of information, analyzing and synthesizing key findings and recommendations, and effectively applying that understanding to develop secure architectures and technology strategies.
• Providing architectural leadership and guidance to delivery teams, technology stakeholders, and senior leaders.
• Facilitating technology governance processes, architecture reviews, and technology decision-making to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, risk management objectives, and business priorities.
• Applying your architecture experience with AWS and Azure, including application of native cloud services, security capabilities, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework.  Relevant cloud certifications would be an asset.

Core Technical Knowledge

• Security architecture frameworks and principles
• Zero Trust, Secure-by-Design, and threat modelling
• Security governance, risk, compliance, and controls
• Cloud and hybrid security architecture
• Identity and access management
• Data protection, encryption, and privacy
• Application security and secure software delivery (DevSecOps)
• Security operations, monitoring, and incident response
• Architecture modelling, documentation, and stakeholder communication

Additional Asset Qualifications

• SaaS and third-party integration security
• AI/ML and emerging technology security
• Threat intelligence and advanced security operations
• Regulatory and industry security frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, PCI DSS, CIS Controls)
• Multi-cloud and enterprise security platform experience
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, TOGAF, GIAC, CIPT)

Regulatory, Compliance and Security Framework Experience

Experience applying the following regulations, standards, frameworks and practices within hybrid on-premises and cloud environments:

• Information Security Management Systems (ISO/IEC 27001) and Information Security Controls (ISO/IEC 27002)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and related NIST publications
• Security risk management, compliance, and control assessment frameworks
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Privacy by Design principles and Privacy best practices
• Data privacy and information management requirements, including British Columbia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPPA) and applicable provincial and federal regulations

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. Check out our ICBC Year in Review 2025  to learn more about what we've accomplished! 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.

 Our values guide how we interact with customers, partners, and each other. They shape our decisions and create a culture where employees feel inspired and empowered to do their best work.

• Collaborative: We include different perspectives to reach our common goals.
• Supportive: We seek to understand to meet diverse and evolving needs.
• Straightforward: We simplify the complex to make things easier.
• Knowledgeable: We gain knowledge through experience and learning to make informed decisions.

Work arrangements defined: 

• 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. 

ICBC provides comprehensive benefit coverage to all eligible employees including a defined benefit pension plan and 4 weeks’ vacation, plus 3 Wellness Days per year.

• Three options available for your health and dental coverage
• Employee and Family assistance program (wellness support)
• Basic group life insurance
• Voluntary group life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Sick leave plan – 100% of pay for a period of a maximum of 8 weeks
• Long term disability plan
• Pension plan – defined benefit pension plan that pays a benefit to you or your beneficiary upon termination, death, or retirement.

If this opportunity aligns with your experience and interests, we encourage you to apply. Join us in helping shape secure, resilient, and future-ready technology solutions that support ICBC and the people of British Columbia.

Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered for this position.

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