Payments Canada is at the forefront of the Canadian payment ecosystem. Our purpose is to make payments easier, smarter and safer for all Canadians. Every day we are working diligently to ensure your payments are cleared and settled. In 2025 alone, our systems cleared approximately $103 trillion or $411.9 billion every business day If you are passionate about payments and want to help ensure that these financial transactions in Canada are carried out safely and securely, working with us is for you

Who we are

We are a public purpose, non-profit organization situated at the center of Canada’s payment ecosystem. We own and operate payment systems that process hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of payment transactions every business day. We convene ecosystem participants to discuss their multiple and diverse interests and ideas and to navigate industry-level challenges. We adhere to a set of values that are our north star:

Inspire trust, build community and enable change.

Payments Canada — where our country connects

Our culture

With our people in mind, we have created a culture that fosters authenticity, collaboration, innovation and development. We empower one another, make meaningful contributions that not only impact the organization, but our country We develop and nurture meaningful connections that drive innovation in our ecosystem. We are Payments Canada

What we are looking for

Reporting to the Manager, Security Architecture; the Senior Security Architect is responsible for developing solutions aligned with both business and strategic in maturing the Security Architecture function.





A key priority for this role is ensuring solutions are designed with resilience from threats and remain compliant with evolving industry standards and financial regulations. As a critical stakeholder, the Senior ensures that Payments Canada’s security posture is resilient, proactive and seamlessly aligned with the organization’s strategic business objectives.

Contacts and Communications

- Foster trusted relationships across the organization and with external stakeholders to broker information security in a practical and sustainable manner.
- Establish, build and maintain strategic relationships within the Payments ecosystem and build the influence and reputation of Payments Canada as a center of excellence.
- Collaborate with Payments Canada members, user groups, and security specialist groups to gather and provide information, advice and solutions on information security management issues.
- Facilitate technical working groups.
- Champion cyber security management at all levels and divisions of the organization, in support of Payments Canada’s goals.

Security Architecture Technical Leadership

- Aid in the development of a long-term Enterprise Security Architecture vision that supports the organization’s digital transformation while maintaining the integrity of the national payment rails.
- Partner with the cross-functional teams to develop and maintain Enterprise Security Architecture.



Ensuring security requirements and principles are natively embedded into the overarching Enterprise Architecture Framework and integrated into all organizational business processes.
- Lead the development and maintenance of secure solution architectures. Provide expert guidance and oversight on complex initiatives, ensuring that current designs proactively mitigate identified misuse cases, vulnerabilities and attack patterns through robust, resilient architectural patterns.
- Develop and govern a multi-year Security Architecture roadmap that prioritizes investments based on an evolving threat landscape. Provide support across all Strategic Roadmap activities (ie. corporate core, payment systems, etc.) as required.
- Lead the creation, maintenance and enforcement of security architecture policies and standards, ensuring they remain sound and compliant with ISO 27001/2 and regulatory frameworks.
- Lead the development of reusable security reference architectures and design patterns to accelerate the delivery of secure systems across the IT organization.
- Act as a subject matter expert and mentor for Security Architects and Engineers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and continuous growth in architecture principles.
- Utilize a risk-based approach to identify security gaps in current architectures and propose architectural changes to remediate systemic vulnerabilities.
- Collaborate with business leaders and external stakeholders to present complex architectural recommendations and security strategies in a compelling, business-centric manner.
- Participate in and maintain a culture of continuous learning and development to enable the security architectural function to continue to mature.

Risks and Compliance

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📌 Senior Security Architect (Ottawa)
🏢 Payments Canada
📍 Ottawa