Global Information Security Architect

Accelerate your success at Colliers. Why Colliers? As one of Canada’s leading commercial real estate services firms, we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people, clients, and communities. A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact, advance your career, and collaborate with top-tier talent. Don’t just take our word for it – we’ve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists, including Best Workplaces in Canada, Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams, among others. British Columbia, Alberta or Ontario, Remote About the role:      We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Global Information Security Architect to join our global information security team. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining, maintaining, and governing an end-to-end security solution design that spans global processes, data, people, and technology. This strategic role involves creating conceptual, logical, and implementation architecture views aligned with global business needs. A key focus will be to provide expert recommendations on security best practices that are business enablers, balancing the risk tolerance of Colliers while ensuring systems are secure and private by design.  Lead the security architecture strategy for cloud migration and modernization initiatives, specifically within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure environments. Ensure designs leverage cloud-native security controls (e.g., Google Cloud Armor, Azure Sentinel, VPC Service Controls) effectively.  Partner with Engineering and DevOps teams to embed security into the CI/CD pipeline ('Shift Left'). Architect secure containerization strategies (Kubernetes/GKE/AKS) and API security frameworks.  Develop governance and security guardrails for the adoption of emerging technologies, including Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring safe business enablement.  Develop, maintain, and govern the global security architecture framework, translating it into robust security designs for all enterprise programs and projects to ensure a consistent and compliant posture.  Serve as a key member of the Architectural Review Board, providing security recommendations on technology initiatives that enable business innovation while balancing the company's risk tolerance.  Collaborate with Project Managers, Solution Designers, and technical teams to integrate security and privacy into solution designs.  Lead the implementation of new security tools and technologies, overseeing their integration into the existing global security architecture.  Create and maintain comprehensive security technical architecture design documents and diagrams.  Identify security gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements.  Conduct technical documentation reviews, ensuring security considerations are well-defined and implemented.  Support the development and…