Enterprise Security - Team Lead

Role Responsibilities:

Managing a team of security engineers who do a mixture of threat modelling, security tool rollouts, building internal security services and partnering with other teams on security strategy.

Owning the strategy for internal security at Canva, balancing security, compliance and developer experience to build an experience that allows Canvanauts to move quickly, while having secure guardrails in place.

Coach and develop engineers by providing regular, practical feedback to help them reach their personal growth goals

Own the team’s ways of work including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives resulting in a high-performing team

Working collaboratively with other partner groups such as IT, Sales, Customer Support and others to build security improvements that scales beyond our team.

Driving adoption of our systems internally, championing the benefits of what we build.

Required Experience

The ability to build a strategy around access that balances usability, security and compliance requirements, being flexible to changes as user patterns change.

Prior experience managing and growing high performing teams.

Proven ability to threat model complex systems, identify security risks, develop mitigation strategies with engineering teams, and see it through to delivery.

Proven experience working with external stakeholder teams such as IT and Procurement to deliver secure SaaS solutions.

A good understanding of the internal IT environments and the security market that surrounds them. Zero trust, IDPs, SSPM, MDMs, Password Managers and more should be topics you’ve dealt with.

The ability to run large, complex projects across multiple groups, set the definition of done, track metrics and deliver comms at company scale.

Beneficial Experience (not required, but helpful)

Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages, with the ability to mentor others on best practices in at least one language: Python, Golang, Java.

Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g Terraform).

Experience working with identity management technologies (MFA, SAML, WebAuthn, Okta)

Understanding of common compliance frameworks like SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR etc.