Iam Development Lead, Cyber

**IAM Development Lead, Cyber (Remote - Canada)**

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**Our Identity & Access Management (IAM) Team**:
We are seeking an innovative and dedicated IAM Application Development Lead with strong software skills and interpersonal abilities to join our forward thinking Identity and Access Management (IAM) Portfolio within the Bank of Canada’s Cyber Security Division.

In our team, you will be part of a dynamic and highly skilled group of cyber specialists enabling Canada’s Leading Bank to work securely. You will have a leading role in assisting the team within to move our development practices forward. You will Interface with our Principal Consultant, Solutions Architects and Senior Cyber Specialists to ensure solutions are in line with the **Bank of Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy.**

Our team also offers many opportunities for career development and you will have the full support of your leader to enhance your skills, experiment, and have autonomy to make decisions.

**What you will do**
- Introduce and champion best in class development techniques including frameworks, automation and testing.
- Drive thought leadership, consistent development processes and coding practices across scrum teams.
- Provide production operational support and work with operational support groups to determine the root cause behind critical production incidents and process challenges.
- Lead initiatives to address appropriate work from the support backlog to mitigate recurring incidents in the future.
- Work with product owners to reduce technical debt and improve operational support.
- Create and contribute mechanisms to enable easy testing and deployment of code in a timely and effective manner.
- Estimate capacity, velocity and throughput to enable accurate forecasting.
- Help improve backlog clarity and dev-tool chain development and maintenance processes.
- Research, evaluate and make recommendations that support or improve Scrum Team processes.

**What you need to succeed**

You are a leader by example, with the ability to effectively communicate to build and maintain strong relationships and collaborate in a team environment. You also have a strong attention to detail, are a self-starter, and capable of driving change in developing coding best practices within the team

In addition, you have:

- Hands-on experience with API Management/Gateway platforms (e.g. CA API Layer7 Technologies, Apigee, Akana, Mulesoft, etc.)
- Experience with SSL/TLS, PKI and certificate based authentication, LDAP, HTTP Proxies and Web Servers, and main identity based protocol.
- Experience with identity protocols and standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SCIM or in-depth knowledge of Single Sign On and delegated access technologies (SAML 2.0, Kerberos)
- Good understanding of basic networking, Web Services protocols such as REST, SOAP and API design for extensibility and portability as well as XML/JSON data formats
- Good understanding of Web security and ability to troubleshoot and act as the identity and access management Subject-Matter-Expert (SME) in a complex, major enterprise environment

**Nice to have**:

- Any relevant cyber security or IAM certifications
- Proven hands-on experience with CA (Broadcom) API Layer7 Technologies

**Your education and experience**

**What if you don’t meet every requirement?**

**What you need to know**
- Language requirement: English or French essential
- Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
- Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Secret
- Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.
- In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and further to public health guidelines, preventative measures are being taken to ensure health and safety during the recruitment process. All interviews are conducted virtually.
- The official title for this position is “Application Development Lead ”

**Remote Work / Hybrid Work Model **#LI-Remote**

For this position, should you not live within reasonable commuting distance of the office, you will be able to work 100% remote (within Canada) for the duration of this term. The Bank is conducting a tria