Group Leader, Cybersecurity

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- The Cybersecurity team manages all strategies, policies, guidelines, processes and systems that ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of TRIUMF’s electronic environment and protection of TRIUMF’s research and institutional data

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leadership & Team Management:

- Lead teams in designing and developing complex solutions and business information systems.
- Engage in strategic planning exercises along with other IS&T leadership members;
- Build liaisons between the Cybersecurity team and the larger TRIUMF populace;
- Develop resource plans for continued growth and development of Cybersecurity team members;
- Manage fiscal processes including budgeting and procurement related to the Cybersecurity solutions and teams
- Plan outage and maintenance schedules and actively participating in organizational change management processes as defined in the TRIUMF Security Policy to ensure all changes and deployments are well-planned and validated to reduce risk;
- Engage with the Research Security Officer to help develop and ensure adherence to Research Security guidelines and compliance requirements for all systems, solutions, and environments managed within TRIUMF;
- Lead the team in generating and maintaining appropriate documentation and processes for the Cybersecurity team, including documentation of systems and services, updates to the IS&T risk registry, incident management documentation, insurance documentation, and other documentation and processes as required;

Solutions architecture:

- Design and develop solutions for complex TRIUMF-wide cybersecurity requirements;
- Ensure all enterprise and IS&T systems are built following secure principles and standards of practice in line with the foundations of cybersecurity
- Define software and hardware architectures to ensure consistent and manageable delivery of cybersecurity solutions;
- Recommend methods for the capture and transmission of data and the form and content of output, including log transformation, threat analysis data, and more;
- Define secure system administration and secure systems development best practices for TRIUMF environments;
- Work with other Group Leads within IS&T and TRIUMF to provide input on hardening of hardware architectures and cybersecurity best practices for TRIUMF environments;
- Ensure the protection and security of TRIUMF data assets.

Systems Analysis:

- Engage with stakeholders to identify and track research, business and technical requirements, including requirements, capital and resource costs related to cybersecurity and data loss prevention;
- Manage key technical deliverables for core cybersecurity systems and services;
- Ensure cybersecurity solutions (both built in-house and leveraging 3rd-party solutions) meet and align with TRIUMF strategic goals and expected outcomes

Collaboration:

- Collaborate with others within and across units to solve technical issues, manage reported incidents, and build resilience through awareness training and common technical safeguards;
- Consult and collaborate with stakeholders to confirm plans in the context of overall TRIUMF technology planning to identify their cybersecurity needs and to provide practical solutions;
- Collaborate with IS&T staff, particularly Enterprise, Systems and Solutions Architects, on major initiatives such as business continuity planning, succession planning, disaster recovery, data management and governance, and enterprise architecture.

Other duties as required

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
Supervises the other members of the Cybersecurity team. This includes internal and 3rd party or contract resources, Incident Response (IR) engagements, and other cybersecurity solutions providers, and may have project-based resources assigned for supervision as required. Is responsible for coaching and performance management and reviews of staff within the group.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

- Leadership Skills:

- Minimum 5 years progressive experience leading cybersecurity teams with responsibility for complex research environments;
- Demonstrated experience coaching and managing teams in a complex technical en