Job Description

Cloud Security Architect

Take a central role

The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.

Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.

With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada's top employers: Working Here - Bank of Canada

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About the position:

We are seeking a cloud-savvy candidate to play a central role in evolving our cyber architecture function and strengthening security across the enterprise.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Cyber Architecture, you will support the advancement of our Cybersecurity architecture capabilities—driving enterprise-wide security outcomes, shaping strategic direction, and influencing architecture practices across teams. You will play a key role in ensuring security is embedded consistently and effectively as the organization scales its cloud adoption.

What you will do:
As a Central Cloud Security Architect, you will:

• Evolve and mature the cyber architecture function by defining scalable security principles, reference architectures, and guardrails that enable secure delivery
• Drive security improvements at scale by embedding security into platforms, policies, and patterns rather than one-off solutions
• Influence and guide architects and engineering teams, ensuring alignment to security objectives while enabling delivery and innovation
• Champion a “secure-by-design” approach, shifting security left into policy, platform engineering, CI/CD, and workload design
• Partner with Cyber Assurance and Risk functions to ensure architecture expectations are measurable, defensible, and aligned with governance outcomes

What you need to succeed
You are a collaborative team player and self-starter who thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment. You bring your strong understanding of cloud security and enterprise architecture.

In addition, you have:

Experience in:

• Developing and implementing security policies and security standards, especially in cloud environments.
• Secure management and migration of workloads to the cloud
• Performing or involved in security assessments, including governance and risk management practices.
• Architecture design tools and techniques (threat modelling, reference architectures).

Knowledge of:

• Enterprise architecture & risk management frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, SABSA)
• Cyber Security standards such as: NIST 800-53, ISO 27001/27002, SOC 2
• Key security domains: Identity and Access Management, Monitoring and Response, cloud security posture management, vulnerability and threat management,
• Tool and techniques to secure cloud-based workloads
• GenAI (LLMs, agentic AI, prompt/context engineering)

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in a financial, banking, and/or payments environment
• Hands-on experience with cloud security (Azure preferred, such as Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Sentinel)
• CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CCSA, AZ-500

Your education and experience
Your combined education and work experience demonstrate that you have the proficiencies and skills for the role. We are ideally seeking candidates with a relevant degree/diploma and 7+ years of relevant experience.

Innovative Mindset

We value candidates who demonstrate adaptability, curiosity, and a willingness to learn new technologies, including AI and digital tools. We seek individuals who can think critically about data, question existing processes, and find ways to simplify our work while embracing change and new ways of doing things.

Language requirement
The Bank’s work environment is conducive to the use of both of Canada’s official languages - English and French. Although the position language requirement is English or French essential, we do encourage everyone to improve second their language proficiency for future career growth and to contribute towards fostering a bilingual environment.

Innovative Mindset
We value candidates who demonstrate adaptability, curiosity, and a willingness to learn new technologies, including AI and digital tools. We seek individuals who can think critically about data, question existing processes, and find ways to simplify our work while embracing change and new ways of doing things.

Language requirement
The Bank’s work environment is conducive to the use of both of Canada’s official languages - English and French. Although the position language requirement is English or French essential, we do encourage everyone to improve their second language proficiency for future career growth and to contribute towards fostering a bilingual environment.

What you need to know

• Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
• Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Secret
• Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
• Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.

Hybrid Work Model
The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a portion of each month as part of the Bank’s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of 12 days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.

What you can expect from us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider

• Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $126,765 to $149,135 (job grade 18)
• The Bank offers an incentive for successfully meeting expectations at 7 to 10% of your base salary. The Bank offers additional performance pay (5%) for those who exceed expectations. Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
• Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health, dental disability and life and/or accident insurance coverage that meets your needs
• Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
• Indexed, defined-benefit pension

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.