Technical Design Lead, IT Security

**Job Type**:
Employee

**Duration in Months**(for fixed-term jobs):
N/A

**Job Family**:
IT Security

**# of Open Positions**:
1

**Faculty/Service - Department**:
IT Security

**Campus**:
Main Campus

**Union Affiliation**:
N/A

**Date Posted**:
July 14, 2025

**Applications must be received**BEFORE**:
July 25, 2025

**Hours per week**:
35

**Salary Grade**:
Non-Union Grade NM1

**Salary Range**:
$104,880.00 - $131,101.00

About Information Technology:
Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services. This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

In a nutshell: working here is challenging and rewarding. It’ll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education. We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle. And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.

**Position Purpose**

**In this role, your responsibilities will include**:

- ** Team Lead**: Supervise a team of Senior Analysts to plan, estimate, prioritize and assign work to technical resources. Provides advice to staff regarding system development methods, design alternatives and technical options.
- ** Planning, Design and Deployment**: Works closely with the Product Manager responsible for IAM with respect to design guidance based on a thorough understanding of the appropriate mission-critical systems and their underlying technology.
- ** Support and Consulting**: Works closely with the other technical and architecture teams to perform in-depth reviews of suitable options and of the existence of delivered functionality before customizing platforms. Provides supporting documentation to request, justify, and implement any customization deemed necessary.
- ** Project Management**: Works closely with the Senior Manager and Product Manager to oversee overall systems testing, systems performance and migration of projects to the Production environment. Ensures that appropriate controls and progress reports are prepared regularly. Ensure that risks are monitored and that risk-mitigation strategies are implemented when necessary.
- ** Troubleshooting and Incident Response**: Builds strong relationships with stakeholders to effectively troubleshoot and resolve system issues. Documents all problems, diagnosis, and resolutions for problems, including effective support for contingency planning.

**What you will bring**:

- A University degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in identity & access management, security, or related area.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in solution development, platform engineering, and implementation.
- Advanced knowledge of various programming languages and scripting languages (e.g.: Java, JavaScript, Python, Node, PowerShell, etc.) and of computing hardware, software and software development methodologies.
- Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including access certification, RBAC, ABAC, identity lifecycle management, and policy enforcement.
- In-depth knowledge of IAM protocols and standards such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP, and SCIM.
- Experience in integrating IAM solutions with cloud and hybrid environments.
- Experience working on large-scale mission critical systems such as but not limited to Saviynt.
- Proficiency in IAM, SSO, MFA, PAM, and other access management solutions.
- Experience with APIs, integrations, middleware, and automation.
- Proficiency in database management, including SQL and Oracle.
- In-depth analytical skills for complex problem solving - identification, diagnosis, resolution.
- Leadership skills, ability to coach and mentor other IT professionals.
- Knowledge of the University’s information technology policies, procedures and standards would be considered an asset.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with all levels of management and staff.
- Strong change management skills and adaptability to evolving technologies.
- Bilingualism - French and English (written and spoken).

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**Key Competencies at uOttawa**:
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