Cybersecurity Program Manager

**Posting Date**: Nov 8, 2024, 1:49:38 PM

**Primary Location**: Ontario-Ottawa

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Schedule**: Full-time

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making an impact every day - for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world. #LI-Hybrid

**Team & Job Overview**

The Digital & Technology Solutions (DTS) group under the leadership of the Chief Information Officer was established in 2023 with the mission of empowering our customers and colleagues to take on the world, by seamlessly delivering secure and reliable digital experiences. Digital & Technology Solutions has set out to achieve the following objectives for EDC:

- Define, execute, and sustain the integrated technology target state, target data model and technology operations required to enable EDC’s 2030 business transformation.
- Establish and manage the rolling 3 Year Digital Roadmap that sequences the technology outcomes required to achieve the technology target state and facilitate its execution across all domains in the organization.
- Keep pace with industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring EDC has access to the digital technology tools it needs to stay relevant in the market and grow Canadian global trade.
- Lead and ensure integrated digital, data, infrastructure, and cybersecurity implementations to create excellent customer, user, and employee experiences.

The Enterprise Information Security (EIS) team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cybersecurity Program Manager to lead and manage a portfolio of projects delivering cybersecurity capabilities at EDC. Reporting to the EIS Director, this role supports the strategic planning process and outcomes, actively participating in outlining the tactics, programs, projects, initiatives, and resources needed to achieve business goals.

These are the high-level responsibilities for this role:

- **Program and Project planning, monitoring and reporting**: Support the strategic planning process by outlining tactics, programs, projects, initiatives, and resources needed to achieve business goals.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**:Work closely with both technical (e.g. Engineering, Security) and non-technical (e.g. Legal, Privacy, Compliance) partners to design, plan, track, and report progress of cybersecurity initiatives.
- **Communication**:Maintain open lines of communication with business and technology units to understand their plans and ensure information security is built in their plans and supports their vision and business obligations.
- **Enable team operations, cyber governance and Issue Resolution**:Act as the primary point of contact for cyber governance and program issue resolution, document and maintain team intake and operational procedures.
- **Resource Optimization**: Collaborate with technical experts, product owners, and project managers to ensure optimal resource utilization, project planning, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Define cyber program objectives and key results - plan, manage, and track a portfolio of projects, including cyber initiatives delivered by other teams across the organization.
- Collaborate effectively with a wide range of EDC employees and external business and technology stakeholders. Understand and manage dependencies across stakeholders to coordinate and deliver results, reducing cyber risk exposure at EDC while enabling business objectives.
- Manage the cyber team intake/backlog, triage, prioritization, and alignment on execution approaches for cyber change and operational initiatives. Facilitate cyber team ceremonies to visualize work, manage impediments, and ensure a well-balanced and consistent flow of work through the system.
- Oversee the execution of cybersecurity projects across the organization, providing integrated progress status, addressing execution issues and risks to ensure projects are completed as per the approved plan and resource allocation.
- Document and maintain cyber team procedures, the team site, and the cyber governance fr