Director Threat Intelligence

Job summary

The Director of Threat Intelligence is responsible for defining enterprise strategy and standards for security platforms, infrastructure engineering, and DevSecOps. They will lead the maturation of threat intelligence capabilities and influence senior stakeholders on risk, resilience, and investment trade-offs.

Job details

Job Description 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 IGM's 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 Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year and one of Canada’s 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. The expected annual base salary range for this role is $149,500 - $192,500 which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development. 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 https://www.mackenzieinvestments.com/en/careers. Artificial 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. #LI-JS2 #LI-Hybrid

What you’ll do

The Director of Threat Intelligence is responsible for defining enterprise strategy and standards for security platforms, infrastructure engineering, and DevSecOps. They will lead the maturation of threat intelligence capabilities and influence senior stakeholders on risk, resilience, and investment trade-offs.

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive progressive experience in enterprise platform and infrastructure services with a deep understanding of DevSecOps and threat intelligence. A post-secondary degree in technology or equivalent practical experience is required, along with proven leadership and influence skills.

Benefits

• Performance-weighted bonus
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Short-term disability plan
• Long-term disability plan
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan
• Paid volunteer days
• Wellness days off
• WorkPerks discount program
• Career development support

Listed skills

• CI/CD · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred
• Leadership · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Threat Intelligence
• DevSecOps
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Security Governance
• Policy-as-code
• CI/CD
• Observability
• Risk Management
• Strategic Planning
• Automation
• Resilience Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Cloud Security
• Incident Response
• Leadership
• Influencing Skills
• Continuous Development
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Operational Resilience
• Workflow Management
• Time Off Management
• Resilience
• Asset Management
• Investments
• Continuous Improvement Process
• Security Controls
• Financial Planning
• Governance
• Scalability
• Investment Decisions
• Operations
• Policy Enforcement
• Wealth Management
• Purchasing
• Telemetry
• Testability
• Tooling
• Information Governance And Management
• Reliability
• Diversification (Investing)

Job areas

• Technology
• Management & Leadership
• Security & Safety
• Finance & Accounting
• Software
• Threat Intelligence Analyst
• Chief Information Security Officer
• Information and Communications Technology Service Managers
• Computer and Information Systems Managers

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