Date Posted: 07/03/2025 Req ID: 43493 Faculty/Division: Ofc of the Chief Information Officer Department: Information Security Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto) Description: Under the general supervision of the Associate Director, Information Security Strategic Initiatives, the Manager, Information Security Strategic Execution is the University of Toronto lead for driving delivery of institutional top priority information security projects. Supervising a team of professionals and project:specific contractors and third:party services, the Manager oversees a portfolio of strategic initiatives, establishes project governance structures such as steering committees and advisory boards, manages project budgets, and ensures matrix teams follow standard project delivery and management processes. The Manager is responsible for ensuring University of Toronto divisions and departments are properly engaged, informed, and actively collaborating on institutional information security strategic initiatives. As a member of the ITS management team, the Manager works with others to continuously review and enhance standardized project management process, refine divisional engagement models, and defines appropriate project metrics and consistent reporting workflow, formatting, and tracking technology. With a strong business:oriented focus, the Manager, Information Security Strategic Execution is responsible for working with Information Technology staff and resources at the University of Toronto to develop and deliver coordinated and strategic efforts to minimize risk of compromise of servers, and server:based applications. Work is done in the context of existing policy, guidelines and applicable legislation in a fluid, consultative environment. The Manager, Information Security Strategic Execution leads analysis of complex projects or business practices to directly identify and mitigate privacy and security risks. They are responsible for escalating timely and emerging information risks to the university. Qualifications: EDUCATION: University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. EXPERIENCE: :Ten:plus years working in an Information Technology environment. :Five:plus years in a team lead or senior/supervisory role in an IT environment. Five:plus years working with Information Security as a prime focus of activity. Five:plus year experience with project and portfolio management. :Experience in software and hardware project delivery in a high:volume, large, strategic enterprise IT environment. :Experience as a Technical Lead focused on designing and delivering solutions and systems integrations. :Experience with Agile and/or Waterfall Project/Program delivery DevOps, or DevSecOps experience. :Experience with service development and service management. Managerial experience over highly skilled staff. :Project management experience of complex strategic projects, particularly using an Agile Scrum development methodology . :Strong experience of delivering digital transformation initiatives, working with business analysts, developers, developing user stories and personas, and product roadmaps. :Strong experience with systems architecture, development and design, SaaS/PaaS processes, database management, capacity management, virtualization technologies and cloud computing. Strong experience with writing and refining user stories, test cases and acceptance criteria and owns their quality. :Knowledgeable across multiple functional areas such as product management, software engineering, UX/UI, and customer support. :Proven experience in translating technical requirements into business language and client requirements into technical language. :Experience negotiating with service providers, establishing and monitoring service level agreements. :Understanding of client and server application deployment and support