Platform Engineering Lead (Winnipeg)

Platform Engineering Lead (Winnipeg)

24 Oct
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Mackenzie Investments
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Winnipeg

24 Oct

Mackenzie Investments

Winnipeg

Location:
Toronto or Winnipeg Referral Level: Level 1 Mackenzie Investments IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. 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. At Mackenzie Investments You Can Build Your Career with Confidence. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year 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 workplace. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work workplace, 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. Overall Job Purpose The Senior Manager, Platform Engineering (Privileged Access Management (PAM) Vault Engineer) is accountable for platform outcomes that enable consistent, secure, and scalable delivery across pods, with a specialized mandate over the enterprise vault secrets management platform. The role defines and applies platform standards and guardrails for secrets, encryption, and dynamic credential services, resolves cross-team constraints,



and balances platform reliability, security, and usability in alignment with Technology governance. Key Accountabilities
- Platform Delivery Outcomes
- Own platform delivery outcomes across multiple teams for the PAM Vault service, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability requirements are met.
- Design and validate Vault services, automation patterns, and enablement tooling (secrets engines, dynamic credentials, PKI, encryption-as-a-service) aligned to architecture and security standards.
- Cross-Team Constraint Resolution
- Resolve cross-pod delivery constraints such as pipeline secrets injection, environment bottlenecks, and shared service reliability, and drive durable fixes.
- Observability and Operational Readiness
- Drive Vault observability, operational readiness, and incident learning (audit logging, seal/unseal health, token and lease telemetry) to improve service maturity.
- Dependency Coordination
- Coordinate dependencies with Software, Infrastructure, Security/Risk, and Architecture partners; surface trade-offs and sequencing impacts.
- Escalation and Governance
- Determine when escalation is required due to enterprise impact or security risk (for example key material exposure or privileged secret compromise); ensure governance engagement.
- AI-Enabled Delivery
- Enable AI-enabled delivery by standardizing safe patterns for automation, policy enforcement,



and developer productivity tooling around secrets consumption.
- Standards and Discipline
- Define and reinforce platform standards (runbooks, SLOs/SLAs where applicable, change discipline, secret rotation and revocation policy) and ensure adoption.
- Community and Mentoring
- Contribute to chapters/communities by sharing practices, improving standards, and mentoring via influence. Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in Technology or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant progressive experience delivering platform services and enablement capabilities in enterprise environments, including hands‑on HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Conjur administration and engineering.
- Strong judgement across reliability, security, usability, and cost trade‑offs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering and operations stakeholders.
- Experience with automation, CI/CD enablement, and service operability disciplines, including secrets management integration into pipelines.
- Experience embedding AI-enabled tooling responsibly within platform services and workflows. Benefits
- COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION: competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
- EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE: competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short-term & long-term disability plans.
- RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS: voluntary Group RRSP enrolment with employer matching component.
- WORK LIFE BALANCE: paid volunteer days, competitive time off including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangem

📌 Platform Engineering Lead (Winnipeg)
🏢 Mackenzie Investments
📍 Winnipeg

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