Senior Cybersecurity Planning Advisor

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If you’re a person with a disability, please let us know by emailing RecruitmentHelp@bchydro.com, as adjustments can be made to help support you in your application process. **Senior Cybersecurity Planning Advisor** Number of positions: 3 Job Location: Dunsmuir 08 Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland Hours of work: Full\-time (37\.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid Annual salary: $ 109,700\.00 \- 138,700\.00 **Position Highlights** As a Senior Cybersecurity Advisor for the Cybersecurity Planning Team, you will lead the strategic planning and architecture function for BC Hydro, shaping the long term direction of its cybersecurity program. You will strengthen the organization’s security posture by developing strategic plans and capability roadmaps that define how current assets will be sustained, how existing capabilities will mature, and how gaps and vulnerabilities will be addressed. In this role, you will connect enterprise security architecture, project delivery, and cybersecurity operations, ensuring that all initiatives align with the overarching security architecture vision. You will work closely with enterprise architects, business units, and vendors to develop investment justifications, build business cases, and oversee solution delivery. Success in this position requires both deep technical expertise and broad strategic insight, enabling you to assess and approve technical solution designs and implementation plans that are secure, operable, and intuitive for cybersecurity teams and end users. **What you'll do** * Strategic Planning: Lead and coordinate strategic planning activities by working with business units and technical teams to capture, prioritize, and translate requirements into actionable project plans. This includes developing capability plans, guiding asset lifecycle and sustainment strategies, and supporting performance and capacity planning to ensure cybersecurity platforms and services remain reliable, scalable, and aligned with long term organizational needs. * Technical Leadership: Acts as a design authority providing architectural leadership guiding and reviewing solution designs to ensure they are technically sound, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles. Define, establish, and maintain cybersecurity architecture standards, patterns, and reference models, ensuring they are well documented and consistently applied across projects. Evaluate new technologies, assess solution alternatives, and validate that designs meet security, performance, operability, and compliance requirements while ensuring delivered solutions are resilient, scalable, and maintainable. * Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain capabilities and implementation roadmaps in partnership with Enterprise Architecture and operational teams ensuring alignment with the enterprise vision, long\-term objectives and evolving business needs. * Business Case Development: Lead the development of business cases, investment plans, and capital funding requests by collaborating with stakeholders to identify business needs, evaluate solution options, quantify benefits, perform cost and benefit analyses, estimating resource requirements, and articulating the value and risk reduction outcomes of proposed cybersecurity investments. * Financial Planning: Promote fiscal accountability by validating the business value of investments through cost benefit analysis, performing project estimations and forecasting, and supporting the operational budgeting process with financial projections. * Project Oversight: Provide ongoing oversight throughout the project delivery lifecycle, ensuring solutions are implemented securely, aligned with strategic objectives, and expected operational and business benefits are achieved. * Design Review: Review and approve technical solution designs and detailed implementation documents, providing expert feedback and recommendations. * Risk Management: Support the assessment and prioritization of cybersecurity risks, drive remediation of gaps, and support operational teams in maintaining a strong security posture. * Vendor Engagement: Work with vendors to identify, evaluate, and select solutions that meet BC Hydro’s cybersecurity and operational needs. * Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a subject matter expert, offering a “cyber lens” on solutions for other business units and supporting enterprise\-wide cybersecurity initiatives. * Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in IT and OT security. **What you bring** * Technical Architect Mindset: Demonstrated experience as a technical architect or cybersecurity specialist, with the ability to bridge strategy, design, delivery, and operations. * Education \& Certification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. CISSP, CISM, or similar certifications preferred. * Experience: Minimum 7 years designing and implementing technical solutions with cybersecurity components in large enterprise environments, including at least 4 years in strategic or advisory roles. * Extensive expertise in two or more areas: o Application Security o Cloud Security o Identity \& Access Management (IAM) o Infrastructure \& Data Centre Security o Endpoint Security o Network Security o Security Monitoring \& Operations o Threat \& Vulnerability Management o Data Protection o OT and ICS Security Preference will be given to candidates with experience in IAM, cloud, and application areas at this time. * Additional Skills: Strong analytical, problem\-solving, written and oral communication, and collaboration skills. Highly self\- driven with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, capable of independently advancing complex initiatives, influencing stakeholders, resolving conflicts and driving outcomes in complex environments. * Tools: Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint. * Experience with NERC CIP compliance an asset **What we offer** * A comprehensive benefits package * A minimum of 15 paid vacation days * A lifetime pension * Flexible work model, depending on your role type * Training and development courses For more information on the benefits we offer, visit bchydro.com/benefits. **What else you should know** * Strong analytical, problem\-solving, written and oral communication, and collaboration skills. Ability to influence stakeholders and resolve conflicts. * Tools: Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint. * Experience with NERC CIP compliance an asset. * Please note that this role is categorized as an IT Advisor at BC Hydro. * Applicants who do not meet the full qualifications or those with lesser work experience may be considered for a lower level position. Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6B 5R3 PN 2012958, 2031442, 2031440 Before you apply, please confirm you meet BC Hydro’s time in role requirement. M\&P employees must meet the time in role requirement specified in their most recent offer letter. For MoveUP and IBEW employees, the current time in role as outlined in the Collective Agreements will apply. Don't forget to update your Candidate Profile with your current resume and copies of your certifications. If applicable, include your Trades Qualification. This will ensure we have all the necessary information to assess your application without any delays. **Date Posted:** 2026\-07\-08 **Closing Date:** 2026\-07\-29 For internal use 51845429