Strategy Advisor, Identity

What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?
- Health & wellbeing resources and programs
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages
- Work-life balance in a hybrid environment with at least 3 days in office
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Opportunities to contribute to community causes
- Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment This job posting is for an existing vacancy. We’re looking for our next Strategy Advisor, Identity & Access Management. Could It Be You? The Advisor, Identity & Access Management Strategy owns the enterprise identity strategy across Questrade Financial Group’s regulated entities. The role sets direction, standards and the multi-year roadmap for workforce identity, privileged access, identity governance and administration, and non-human identity (including Agentic Identity), and leads the IAM team that delivers them. It is accountable for the identity control environment meeting business, security and regulatory requirements in each QFG entity, and for the vendor decisions, governance and evidence that keep it there. This is a strategy and leadership role; deep technical execution is led by the Principal Engineer, Identity & Access Management, and other IAM team members, under this role’s direction. This role operates within a CIRO-regulated dealer and an OSFI-regulated federal financial institution (FRFI) environment. Candidates must understand that entity segregation between Questrade Inc. and Questbank is a foundational architectural constraint. Need more details? Keep reading… In this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to: Scope and boundaries
- Owning enterprise identity strategy, standards, roadmap and governance for workforce identity life-cycle, privileged access, IGA and non-human identity across all QFG entities.
- Delegating hands-on design and engineering execution to the Principal Engineer, IAM, and the IAM team. This role directs, prioritizes and is accountable for outcomes.
- Client identity (CIAM): this role defines and represents the security requirements, standards and controls that client-facing identity platforms must meet, and contributes to policy engine design to minimize account takeover risks. Platform delivery ownership follows the enterprise architecture decision on the CIAM target state. Strategy and roadmap
- Owning the Enterprise and Client IAM vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap across all QFG entities; aligning with business, technology and security strategy; secure executive approval and funding.
- Leading requirements-first selection of identity platforms and vendors: defining control requirements before evaluating products, running trade-off analysis, and recording decisions. No platform is adopted or retired without a documented decision. Entity governance and regulatory
- Owning the identity control and compliance posture of each QFG regulated entity separately, including entity-scoped design, evidence and reporting.
- Maintaining the identity dimensions of OSFI Guideline B-13, third-party access expectations under OSFI Guideline B-10, resilience considerations under OSFI Guideline E-21, and CIRO cybersecurity expectations, producing evidence in the form of auditors and regulators can test.
- Supporting OSFI supervisory reviews, CIRO examinations, SOC 2 examinations and internal audits for identity domains; driving remediation of identity findings to closure with named owners and committed dates. Workforce and privileged identity
- Setting standards for access, authentication and authorization across the workforce: single sign-on, personal password management, MFA and authentication escalation, risk-based access, and the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle.
- Owning privileged access program outcomes: vault coverage, credential rotation, JIT/JEA, session accountability and emergency access, with measurable targets and quarterly reporting. Identity governance and administration
- Owning the IGA strategy: authoritative attribute sourcing from HR systems, the role and entitlement model, automated provisioning and deprovisioning, and access certification across all enterprise platforms, with check-and-balance controls for data quality, integrity and timeliness. Non-human and cloud identity
- Owning governance of non-human identity: service accounts, agentic identities, workload identities, API keys and secrets across on-premises, GCP, AWS, Azure and Microsoft Entra, including inventory, ownership, rotation and least privilege. Metrics and reporting
- Owning identity KPI and KRI targets and reporting to executive and Board audiences, using the measurement library maintained by the IAM team. Directing effort by risk, not evenly. People management
- Leading, developing and retaining the IAM team; setting goals aligned to strategy; addressing performance in a timely manner.
- Forecasting r