Assistant Vice-President, Security Architecture & Advisory

Job Description

Grade: L10 Referral Level: Level 3 Division: IGM-Tech

IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $271 billion in assets. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.

Mackenzie Investments, founded in 1967, is a key part of IGM's business model, serving as a comprehensive asset-management partner for Canadian financial advisors and their clients.

We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive years and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. Our vision and strategy aim to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals.

Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive environment. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues! Our Values:
Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.

The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Security Architecture & Advisory is a senior role responsible for shaping and executing the enterprise security architecture strategy, including ownership of AI security architecture, evolving AI threat patterns, and enterprise AI security standards. This position ensures security and privacy are embedded into technology solutions from inception, enabling secure-by-design, privacy-by-default, secure‑AI‑by‑design, and shift-left practices across the organization.

Acting as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, the AVP influences strategic technology decisions, drives architectural governance, and positions security as a business enabler.

• Define and continuously evolve the enterprise security architecture strategy to support business transformation and innovation.
• Oversee the design and implementation of secure solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, cloud, AI/ML platforms, agent‑based systems, and emerging technologies.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and patterns to ensure resilience, scalability, compliance, and consistent security controls for AI‑enabled capabilities.
• Define target‑state and transitional architectures that address AI‑driven risk domains, including model lifecycle security, data security, and non‑human (agent and workload) identities.

• Define and own the enterprise AI security architecture, including reference architectures, security patterns, and guardrails for generative AI, machine learning, and autonomous systems.
• Establish AI‑specific security standards covering the full AI lifecycle, including model development, training, deployment, inference, and retirement, aligned to enterprise risk appetite and regulatory expectations.
• Define architectural controls addressing AI threat patterns such as model manipulation, data poisoning, prompt injection, and AI supply‑chain risk.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, data, and platform teams to ensure AI solutions implement defense‑in‑depth, least privilege, and strong identity controls, including non‑human and agent identities.
• Translate emerging regulatory, industry, and standards guidance into practical, enforceable AI security architecture patterns.

• Partner with architects across the organization to embed secure‑by‑design, privacy‑by‑default, and secure‑AI‑by‑design principles into all technology solutions.
• Drive shift‑left security practices
  , ensuring security, privacy, and AI risk considerations are integrated early in solution and model life cycles.
• Promote architectural patterns and frameworks that enable proactive risk reduction and compliance.

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