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Senior IT Advisor (Cybersecurity Planning Advisor)
Number of positions: 3 Job Location: Dunsmuir 08
Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 107,000.00 - 135,300.00
Position Highlights
As a Cybersecurity Planning Advisor, you will play a pivotal role in translating enterprise architecture vision into actionable
cybersecurity solutions. You’ll partner with architects, business units, and vendors to develop investment justifications,
business cases, and oversee solution delivery. This role demands both technical depth and strategic breadth, enabling you
to review and approve technical solution designs and detailed implementation plans, ensuring solutions are secure,
operable, and user-friendly for cybersecurity teams and end users.
What you'll do
- Strategic Planning: Lead and coordinate strategic planning efforts by collaborating with business units and technical teams
to capture, prioritize, and translate requirements into actionable project plans.
- Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain implementation roadmaps in partnership with Enterprise Architecture
ensuring alignment with the enterprise vision, long-term objectives and evolving business needs.
- Technical Leadership: Guide and review solution designs, ensuring technical feasibility, security, and compliance with
standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Project Oversight: Provide ongoing oversight throughout the project delivery lifecycle, ensuring solutions are implemented
securely and effectively.
- Design Review: Review and approve technical solution designs and detailed implementation documents, providing expert
feedback and recommendations.
- Risk Management: Support the assessment and prioritization of cybersecurity risks, drive remediation of gaps, and
support operational teams in maintaining a strong security posture.
- Vendor Engagement: Work with vendors to identify, evaluate, and select solutions that meet BC Hydro’s cybersecurity and
operational needs.
- Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a subject matter expert, offering a “cyber lens” on solutions for other business units and
supporting enterprise-wide cybersecurity initiatives.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in IT and OT
security.
What you bring
- Technical Architect Mindset: Demonstrated experience as a technical architect or cybersecurity advisor, with the ability to
bridge strategy, design, and delivery.
