Director Threat Intelligence
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Job Summary
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 IGMs 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 Canadas Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year and one of Canadas 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.
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.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience to 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.
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