Data Architect, Security Architect, and Infrastructure Architect

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

OSFI believes in offering employees flexibility and in creating a workplace that is productive, engaging, collaborative, and inclusive, all the while being supportive of employees’ wellbeing. As such, OSFI is experimenting with a hybrid work model (a combination of telework and onsite work) that will shape how we use our physical workplace to establish new norms, ways of collaborating, and working together and will adjust its model based on lessons learned.

POSITION LOCATION / WORK ARRANGEMENT:
These positions are located in Ottawa and Toronto. However, the successful candidates may report to the Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver office for in-office work.

Due to the nature of the work and operational requirements, this position requires physical presence (in-office work) from one of the following OSFI offices across Canada: Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver. The option of teleworking is available on a part-time basis in accordance with OSFI’s Guidelines on Telework. Teleworking arrangements are determined on a case-by-case basis depending on the nature of the work required by the position, the operational and business needs, as well as the candidate’s work preferences.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY:
OSFI is committed to achieving a representative workforce that reflects the diversity of the Canadian population. We are dedicated to building and promoting a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, representative of all Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socio-economic background or lived experience. By embracing diversity and inclusion, our department ensures broader discussions, better decisions, and a more positive workplace.

We invite you to be part of the change by joining an organization where individual differences are recognized, valued and respected. We welcome all candidates to apply and strongly encourage candidates to self-declare if they belong to an Employment Equity designated group: Aboriginal* Peoples, Persons with Disabilities, Women or Visible Minorities (Black people and other racialized groups).

*The term “Aboriginal” is used within this job advertisement as it relates to the Employment Equity Act and other legislative frameworks. The term “Indigenous” is used where possible, in alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Achieving a representative and diverse workforce has been identified as an organizational need for OSFI and may be applied at any time during this appointment process. If this criterion is used, only those who have indicated that they are members of the specified designated group(s) will be considered. As such, first consideration for an appointment may be given to candidates who self-declare as belonging to one or more of the four designated employment equity groups (Persons with a disability, Aboriginal people, Members of a Visible Minority, or Women).

In order to self-declare, please ensure to check off the appropriate box within the online application under the Employment Equity section. We encourage you to consult theses links to learn more about employment equity and self-declaration:
• https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/services/gc-jobs/employment-equity.html
• https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/services/gc-jobs/applying-government-canada-jobs-how-to-apply.html#EE

Duties

What you will be doing:

All Positions:
- Working closely with the Client Relationship Management team and business clients to understand and capture functional and non-functional requirements for IT investments that support business capabilities.
- Understanding business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determining corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
- Designing and directing the governance activities associated with architecture assurance and compliance.
- Guiding and overseeing application designers, developers, and other IM/IT staff to ensure that solutions adhere to OSFI’s architecture standards.
- Understanding and analysing technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

Data Architect:
- Establishing and maintaining data management, data integration, business intelligence and data analytics standards.
- Establishing and maintaining processes for governing the identification, collection, and use of corporate data and metadata.
- Establishing and maintaining methods and procedures for tracking and maintaining data quality and completeness and controlling redundancy.
- Overseeing the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.

Security Architect:
- Developing security technology strategy, plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices.
- Developing and maintaining security architecture models, templates, and standards to guide projects and ongoing operations.
- Tracking developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that these are adequately addressed in security strategy plans and architecture artifacts.
- Collaborating with SecDevOps teams to set security architecture direction, establish security requirements, advocate secure coding practices, and promote automation of security testing.
- Reviewing security technologies, tools, and services, and make recommendations to the broader security team for their use based on security, financial and operational metrics.

Infrastructure Architect:
- Defining strategic goals for managing and maintaining corporate computing systems, software and storage.
- Ensuring that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
- Developing, documenting, communicating, and enforcing policies for standardizing systems and software as necessary.
- Develop, document, and communicating proposals for investing in systems architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.

Work environment

Our Role:
OSFI is an independent federal government agency that regulates and supervises more than 400 federally regulated financial institutions and 1,200 pension plans to determine whether they are in sound financial condition. In fulfilling its mandate, OSFI supports the government's objective of contributing to public confidence in the Canadian financial system.
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Our People and Culture:
People are the foundation of our organization. You will become part of a diverse community that acknowledges everyone has varied experience and fosters an environment where communication and teamwork amplify our effectiveness. We have several networks dedicated to ensuring that the department continues to grow as an inclusive, accessible, respectful and diverse workplace. All employees are encouraged and welcome to join the following networks and participate in their activities and events.
• Diversity of Thought
• Family Responsibilities
• Gender
• 2SLGBTQIA+
• Mental Health and Accessibility
• Multiculturalism (Affinity Groups: Indigenous, Asian, Black)
• Unconscious Bias
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Our Rewards:
💵 Compensation: OSFI offers a competitive salary, and employees may be eligible for in-range increases and economic adjustments. Salaries are based on qualifications, experience and knowledge. The Public Service Pension Plan is a defined benefit pension plan (indexed for inflation), where both the employer and the employee contribute.

💰 Performance Pay: OSFI employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on their performance throughout the year.

✈️ Vacation and Leave: OSFI employees start with 4 weeks of paid vacation, 2 personal days and 5 days of Family Related Leave with Pay among other various types of paid and unpaid leave.

💻 Flexible Work Arrangements: OSFI offers flexible work arrangements by providing support for compressed work week schedules, flexible work hours and teleworking, in order for employees to achieve their work objectives while achieving balance between work and homelife.

📖 Learning and Development: OSFI offers career advancement opportunities and encourages innovative thinking in its work environment. Employees may be reimbursed for relevant professional association membership fees.

Intent of the process

A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be created to staff similar or identical positions with various linguistic profiles and requirements, security requirements and/or various tenures within the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), which may vary according to the position being staffed.

Positions to be filled: 3

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION:
- A degree from a post-secondary institution with a specialization in computer science, information technology, information management or another field relevant OR an acceptable combination of relevant professional industry experience, training and education.

Degree equivalency

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:
Required for all three (3) positions:
- Experience in developing architecture strategies and associated standards.
- Experience in analyzing solution options and making recommendations in support of data or technology initiatives, and to support strategies and studies.
- Experience in providing advice to senior management verbally and in writing.
- Experience in guiding and overseeing application designers, developers and other IM/IT staff to ensure that solutions adhere to architecture standards.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

ASSET EDUCATION:
- Master's degree in a field relevant to the position to be staffed.
- Industry certifications relevant to the duties of this position.
- TOGAF 9 Certification (Level 1 or 2).

Degree equivalency

ASSET EXPERIENCE:
- Experience in developing future state architectures based on an organisation's business strategies and objectives.
- Recent* experience with developing foundational cloud architectures for identity management, availability, and recovery.
- Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies and associated architectures.
- Experience developing cloud-based or hybrid solutions.
- Experience with public cloud monitoring, analysis and optimization tools.
- Experience with migrating on-premises workloads to public cloud services.

*“Recent” is defined as having been acquired in the last 2 years.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE:

Knowledge required for all three (3) positions:
- Knowledge of system development life cycle concepts, DevSecOps methods and processes and architectural support for agile project teams.

Knowledge required for the Data Architect position:
- Knowledge of logical, conceptual and physical data modeling techniques.
- Knowledge of database management systems supporting relational, tabular and graph formats.
- Knowledge of master data management techniques.
- Knowledge of metadata management techniques and supporting tools.
- Knowledge of business intelligence (BI), data visualization and modern analytics (e.g. machine learning) architectures and tools.

Knowledge required for the Security Architect position:
- Knowledge of full-stack IT infrastructure, including applications, databases, operating systems, networks and storage.
- Knowledge and application of Government of Canada security policies and policy instruments and other relevant industry standards and best practices.
- Knowledge of public cloud security architecture and design principles.
- Knowledge of privacy principles, best practices and applicable legislation.

Knowledge required for the Infrastructure Architect position:
- Technical knowledge of network, PC, and platform operating systems.
- Technical knowledge of current systems software, protocols, and standards.
- Knowledge of systems and network design techniques.
- Knowledge of technology evaluation principles and practices.
- Knowledge of public cloud services and architectures.

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES:
- Collaboration
- Critical Thinking
- Interpersonal Communication
- Innovation

ESSENTIAL ABILITIES:
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ASSET KNOWLEDGE:
- Knowledge of Government of Canada cloud strategy, policy instruments and reference architectures.
- Knowledge of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) frameworks and processes.
- Knowledge of software and services contract structures.
- Knowledge of IT budgeting and financial management.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:
- OSFI is committed to having a skilled and diverse workforce representative of the Canadian population. In order to meet our employment equity objectives, selection for this position may be made from among qualified candidates who self-declare as belonging to one or more of the following Employment Equity groups: Persons with a disability, Aboriginal people, Members of a Visible Minority, or Women. OSFI is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we strongly encourage candidates to self-declare if they belong to one of these designated employment equity groups.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability and willingness to work overtime.
- Ability and willingness to travel within Canada when required.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

- In our hybrid workplace environment, the ability to work remotely from home within Canada with access to the Internet in one’s residence is a condition of employment.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

For external processes (as indicated by the abbreviation “EA” in the selection process number), only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

OSFI is a separate agency with its own classification and compensation system. OSFI's staffing is subject to the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA).

The ability to communicate effectively in writing may be assessed using the candidate's application, as well as through the evaluation process.

Assessments (such as written exams, interviews and reference checks) may be conducted virtually through email, telephone and/or videoconference.

Candidates must meet all of the essential qualifications to be appointed; however, one or more asset criteria may be invoked at any stage of the process.

Depending on the number of applicants, volume management strategies such as random selection, top-down approach and/or establishing cut-off scores to determine who will continue in the staffing process, may be used for the purpose of managing applications. Please note that although you may attain the established pass mark on any of the assessments used in this staffing process, management may decide to use a higher cut off score.

Eligible candidates may be considered and offered a deployment or interchange before considering other applicants.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

Email correspondence will be the only method of communication with candidates for this selection process, please ensure it accepts messages from unknown users. Please note that you need to provide valid and updated contact information.

All job applications must be submitted through the Government of Canada public service jobs website. Do not email or mail hard copy documents as these will not be accepted. To submit an application online, please click on the "apply now" button. Persons without Internet access may also review jobs open to the public through INFOTEL at 1-800-645-5605.

If you have a limitation that may impact your performance at any step of the assessment process (such as submitting the application, written test, or an interview), you may request an accommodation. Assessment accommodations are designed to remove barriers, and to ensure that candidates with limitations can fully demonstrate their abilities. Should you wish to be accommodated, please inform us by sending an e-mail to the following address: . All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.