Director Threat Intelligence

Mackenzie Investments; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & recognition

Hybrid & flex work arrangements

Pension plan

Education & career support

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Job summary

Mackenzie Investments is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive enterprise platform standards and security governance across infrastructure. You will advance threat intelligence, automation, and AI-enabled practices while partnering with senior stakeholders to balance risk, resilience, and cost.

This role embraces a hybrid work model in Canada with a focus on scale and impact. You will mentor senior ICs, shape policy-as-code, and guide secure delivery across multiple teams, influencing

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise platform and infrastructure services.
• Proven influence on standards, governance alignment, and risk-informed decisions across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated leadership-by-influence with senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Deep expertise in automation, CI/CD enablement, observability, recoverability, and secure operations.
• Ability to shape AI-enabled strategy and guardrails at scale.
• Demonstrated depth in Threat Intelligence and DevSecOps as core operating disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise platform standards spanning tooling, pipelines, shared services, automation, resilience, recoverability, and observability.
• Own threat intelligence collection, enrichment, and dissemination to drive guardrails and detection requirements across the security ecosystem.
• Sponsor policy-as-code, automation, and knowledge automation within CI/CD pipelines to enforce security controls.
• Define safe automation and CI/CD enablement patterns that embed security guardrails into build, test, deploy, and operate workflows.
• Resolve systemic platform and infrastructure constraints impacting delivery speed and resilience.
• Drive observability, resilience, and incident learning at enterprise scale with telemetry, capacity, and DR readiness.
• Influence roadmap and investment decisions with evidence-based trade-offs on capability, risk, resilience, cost, and scalability.
• Shape and sponsor AI-enabled platform and infrastructure strategy, including automation and policy-as-code.
• Mentor senior ICs and strengthen capability uplift through communities of practice and standards forums.

Skills

Automation

CI/CD enablement

Observability

Threat Intelligence

DevSecOps

Governance

Leadership by influence

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Post-secondary education in Technology

Job description

Job Description

Location: Winnipeg, Toronto

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 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.

Overall Job Purpose

Accountable for enterprise strategy, standards, and guardrails across security platform and infrastructure engineering, with a direct mandate to mature Threat Intelligence and DevSecOps as day to day operating capabilities. Shapes policy enforcement, resolves systemic constraints across multiple teams, and influences senior stakeholders on investment, resilience, and risk trade-offs, translating enterprise considerations into actionable governance aligned to Technology standards.

Key Accountabilities

1. Enterprise Strategy, Standards, and Guardrails

• Define and evolve enterprise platform and infrastructure standards spanning tooling, pipelines, shared services, automation, resilience, recoverability, and observability, and drive adoption across portfolios.
• Serve as trusted advisor on the highest-complexity platform, infrastructure, and operational resilience issues across multiple teams.

2. Threat Intelligence Enablement

• Own the enterprise standards for threat intelligence collection, enrichment, and dissemination so that intel drives compensating control recommendations for operators.
• Translate threat intelligence into prioritized, evidence-based guardrails and detection requirements across the security ecosystem.

3. DevSecOps and Secure Delivery

• Sponsor policy-as-code, automation, and knowledge automation practices so security controls are codified, machine-testable, and enforced within pipelines.
• Define safe automation and CI/CD enablement patterns that embed security guardrails into build, test, deploy, and operate workflows.

4. Systemic Constraint Resolution

• Resolve systemic platform and infrastructure constraints impacting delivery speed, reliability, security, capacity, stability, or recoverability across multiple teams.

5. Resilience, Incident, and Operational Readiness

• Drive observability, resilience, and incident learning at enterprise scale, including telemetry, alerting, capacity, and DR readiness, to improve service maturity.

6. Influence, Investment, and Escalation Governance

• Influence roadmap and investment decisions with evidence-based trade-offs on capability, risk, resilience, cost, and scalability.
• Determine when initiatives require escalation due to enterprise or regulatory impact and ensure consistent engagement with architecture and risk forums.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align priorities and sequencing when constraints materially impact outcomes.

7. AI-Enabled Practices

• Shape and sponsor AI-enabled platform and infrastructure strategy, including automation, predictive monitoring, and policy-as-code, aligned to security and governance.

8. People and Capability Uplift

• Mentor senior ICs and strengthen capability uplift through communities of practice and standards forums.

9. Continuous Improvement

• Identify recurring friction and enable durable fixes across the platform and infrastructure ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Technology or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive progressive experience delivering enterprise platform and infrastructure services and enablement.
• Proven influence on standards, governance alignment, and risk-informed decisions across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated leadership-by-influence with senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Deep expertise in automation, CI/CD enablement, observability, recoverability, and secure operations.
• Ability to shape AI-enabled strategy and guardrails at scale.
• Demonstrated depth in Threat Intelligence and DevSecOps as core operating disciplines.

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $149,500 - $192,500 which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.

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 Defined Contribution Pension Plan

• WORK LIFE BALANCE: paid volunteer days, competitive time off, including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangements.

• INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY: living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).

IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Mackenzie Investments is an accessible employer committed to providing barrier-free recruitment experience. If you require accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.

Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Mackenzie Investments; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please apply by October 18 2026.