IT Principal Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Municipal Property Assessment Corporation; Pickering; On-site; CAD 126,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization dedicated to enhancing communities across Ontario as an IT Principal Engineer (Cybersecurity). In this role, you'll leverage your extensive IT operations experience and leadership skills to improve business practices through innovative solutions within cloud computing and cybersecurity frameworks. Work with a collaborative team committed to service excellence and fostering an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Flexible work locations

Employee wellness support

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in IT operations.
• Certification as a Scrum Master or Agile Practitioner required.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a resource for teams and expert consultant to overcome project roadblocks.
• Identifies needs for improvement in departmental operations.
• Provides technical perspectives on departmental operations.

Skills

Leadership

Agile project management

Service excellence

Education

Post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Tools

Agile methodologies

DevOps environments

Job description

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Date : May 16, 2025

Location : Pickering, ON, CA

Type of Position : Permanent ( Standard Req Only)

Number of Positions : 1

Salary Min : $126,751.00

Salary Max : $158,439.00

Description :

Do you want to be part of a team helping to strengthen every community across Ontario? Are you interested in seeing the importance of your work firsthand? Do you have a passion for big data and cloud computing – and know the benefit of using data to improve business practices?

Become a IT Principal Engineer (Cybersecurity) with MPAC

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is made up of a team of experts who understand local communities and assess every property in Ontario. What we do provides the very foundation that municipalities use to base the property taxes needed to pay for the services we use every day.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

MPAC is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. We are taking important steps towards ensuring that all voices are respected, valued and being heard. MPAC is dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can bring their full, unique and authentic selves and are inspired to do their best work.

Our Information Technology team works closely with each department across the business to design, build and deliver innovative solutions that help make MPAC an international leader in the property assessment industry. The way we think about technology is different, and our teams are proud to share their knowledge and contribute to meaningful, technology-enabled success stories that enhance operational intelligence and customer service delivery. We tackle complex problems collaboratively in an agile environment, and are committed to ensuring MPAC technology is consistently available, scalable, performance-based and secure. We’re a group of forward-thinking and talented professionals who stay ahead of the game by using open source technology, cutting-edge cloud computing, advanced analytics and predictive and machine learning models.

Job Description

What makes you great for this role?

You are focused on both the effective operations of MPAC, recommending continued adoption of industry best practices and expanding opportunities for the organization. The role will maintain solid working relationships with stakeholders (internal and external, in addition to vendors) to ensure MPAC is delivering services / products as required.

We have :

• A team of highly skilled, dedicated and collaborative staff
• Leadership that supports you
• An enterprise that embraces change
• A work environment that has flexible work locations (including remote), hours of work and overall employee wellness support

You have :

• Completion of post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field is required
• Minimum 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in IT operations required; experience leading projects / teams and / or acting as a consultant / advisor
• Certification as a Scrum Master or Agile Practitioner
• Advanced knowledge of various IT technologies; theory and principles of systems design and development
• Strong leadership and agile project management skills
• Experience working in Agile and / or DevOps environments
• Understanding and experience with software related industry trends
• Strong understanding of application layers and interconnectivity
• Understanding of industry security practices and compliancy including ISO 27001
• Willing and eager to learn business applications and technology domains
• Demonstrated commitment to service excellence
• Strong management and team building skills to provide leadership, motivation, and direction to staff

What you will do :

• Acts as a resource for teams and expert consultant to get past project roadblocks and / or add additional resources to enable timely delivery, planning and quality of technical solutions, products and services
• Identifies needs for improvement, continually conducting review of departmental operations – focusing on prioritizing resources, and leveraging resources across teams for effective deployment
• Provides a technical perspective on overall departmental operations, acting as an expert advisor / consultant to members of the management team
• Reviews operational frameworks and identifies areas for efficiency and improved implementation of standards
• Keeps track of Departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and seeks to assist in the attainment of those indicators; provides feedback on performance levels that are reasonable to the Directors / CITO
• Acts as an advisor, participating in development, planning resources for potential initiatives and integration of any new technology or tools
• Helps develop operational level agreements / service level agreements for MPAC, managing risk and assessing performance and current production environment for the ability to deliver
• Considers risk profile – corporate, enterprise and client-facing applications / tools / products
• Support a best practice learning environment to allow successful management, coaching and mentoring of staff
• Identify unit operating budget requirements, monitor and forecast monthly allocations and develop plans to mitigate variances

Additional Information :

• Requisition ID : 2542
• Job Type : Non-Union Staff
• Closing Date : May 30, 2025

Ready to apply?

Please note, only applications submitted through the Applicant Tracking System will be accepted.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background verification with Mintz Global Screening. By applying to this job posting, you are providing your consent to MPAC to share your name, email address and phone number with Mintz, to conduct the criminal and driver abstract check and for Mintz to disclose the results to MPAC, should you be the successful incumbent.

MPAC is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment where all employees and members of the public feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflect the diversity of the public and communities we serve.

Persons with disability who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may email their request to [emailprotected] .

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Please note that MPAC prohibits employees from holding a current / valid real estate license and successful applicants must at least suspend their real estate licenses during their period of employment at MPAC as outlined in our Employee Code of Conduct.

Job advertisements for positions that have been designated bilingual will be posted in both English and French on our website. Positions that are not designated bilingual are not translated and are only posted in English on the English version of our website.

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