Senior IT Security Architect & Advisory Leader

COFOMO; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CoFoMo Inc. in Montreal, Canada, seeks a senior security architect to oversee security requirements across projects and to analyze architectures for threats and controls in hybrid environments including SaaS, Azure, Windows Server and Oracle Linux.

The role involves advising teams, participating in architecture workshops, and shaping security patterns and governance. Deep hands-on experience is essential for translating governance guidance into technical requirements.

Qualifications

• Ten years of experience in computer security.
• Experience in security architecture consulting or equivalent.
• Ability to perform security risk analyses and mitigation planning.
• Ability to analyze solution architectures and recommend security controls.
• Experience drafting or updating security architecture guidelines and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support projects in defining and integrating security requirements.
• Participate in architecture workshops and design reviews.
• Analyze architectures from a security perspective and identify threats and impacts.
• Identify risk scenarios and mitigation measures for proposed solutions.
• Recommend appropriate security controls based on context and risk.
• Produce security analyses, opinions and deliverables for the security architecture.
• Advise teams on security mechanisms and implementations.
• Collaborate with governance advisors to ensure policy compliance.
• Handle deviations and residual risks with documented recommendations.
• Provide advisory support to project managers and technical teams.
• Contribute to improving security patterns, standards and architecture practices.
• Participate in pre-release security reviews when required.

Skills

Security architecture consulting

Security risk analyses

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Identity and access control

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Windows Server

Oracle Linux

Microsoft SQL Server

On-premise infrastructure

Job description

CoFoMo Inc. in Montreal, Canada, seeks a senior security architect to oversee security requirements across projects and to analyze architectures for threats and controls in hybrid environments including SaaS, Azure, Windows Server and Oracle Linux.

The role involves advising teams, participating in architecture workshops, and shaping security patterns and governance. Deep hands-on experience is essential for translating governance guidance into technical requirements.