Location: Toronto, ON

Work Model: Hybrid (2-3 days/week in office)

Contract Length: Initial 3-month contract with strong extension potential

Start Date: September 2026

Pay: 80-95/HR

Interview Process: One 30-minute interview round (targeting next week)

We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.

Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role.

Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Security Architect to serve as a trusted cybersecurity advisor and architect for executive stakeholders and enterprise clients. This is a highly consultative, hands-on architecture role focused on designing and communicating comprehensive security strategies across multiple cyber domains.

The successful candidate will be comfortable challenging assumptions, influencing senior executives, and creating end-to-end security architectures that incorporate cloud, automation, AI, and emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities

- Act as a senior cybersecurity advisor to executives, including VPs, CISOs, Senior Directors, and external clients.
- Design and communicate enterprise security architecture strategies across multiple security domains.
- Develop high-level architecture roadmaps and visually represent future-state security environments.
- Evaluate security technologies and determine how they integrate within broader enterprise ecosystems.
- Provide architectural guidance for cloud security, identity, network security, automation, and emerging AI/agentic solutions.
- Challenge existing approaches and provide strategic recommendations backed by technical expertise and business rationale.




- Collaborate with implementation teams to ensure architecture designs are technically feasible and aligned with business objectives.

Required Qualifications

- 10-15+ years of experience within cybersecurity, including enterprise security architecture responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing security solutions across multiple cyber domains.
- Strong background in cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Working knowledge of modern cybersecurity platforms and technologies such as:
- Palo Alto Networks
- IAM / Identity Security
- Prisma Cloud
- Zscaler
- Other enterprise security technologies
- Solid understanding of security integrations and how different security tools interact within an enterprise environment.
- Previous hands-on implementation experience with cybersecurity technologies before moving into architecture roles.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior business and technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

- Consulting or professional services background.
- Experience advising C-suite and executive leadership teams.
- Exposure to automation, AI-enabled security capabilities, and agentic security architectures.
- Broad knowledge spanning cloud security, network security, identity, endpoint, governance, risk, compliance, and security operations.

Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a broad cybersecurity architect who combines deep technical credibility with strong consulting and executive-facing skills. They can quickly assess current-state environments, design future-state architectures, articulate technical trade-offs, and confidently advise senior stakeholders on security strategy and transformation initiatives.

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