Senior Technical Specialist, Corporate Security

Senior Technical Specialist, Corporate Security BUILD SOMETHING PEOPLE LOVE Wealthsimple's mission is to help everyone achieve financial freedom – by making financial services simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're Canada's largest fintech, trusted by over 3 million clients with more than $100 billion in assets. We move fast, we own our work, and we care deeply about the people using our products. If that sounds like you, keep reading. We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers. We are seeking a Senior Technical Specialist, Corporate Security to oversee and optimize our Physical Protection System (PPS). In this critical role, you will be responsible for ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of all technical physical security measures, including access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and related infrastructure. You will lead technical projects end-to-end, manage our security integrator relationship, and serve as the subject matter expert on Genetec Security Centre across our enterprise environment. You will stay informed on emerging security technologies, industry standards, and evolving threat landscapes to proactively identify and address potential vulnerabilities. This position requires a detail-oriented professional with deep hands-on technical expertise, strong project management discipline, and the communication skills to work effectively across all levels of the organization. *Please note - This is a full-time onsite position requiring presence in our Toronto office five days per week. As a Senior Technical Specialist, Corporate Security you will: - Own all aspects of the Physical Protection System (PPS), with Genetec Security Centre (access control and VMS) as the primary platform — including configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization across a multi-site enterprise architecture. - Serve as the first point of contact for PPS troubleshooting, conducting root cause analysis and driving defect resolution in partnership with our security integrator and internal IT. - Oversee and manage the Wealthsimple security integrator relationship, holding vendors accountable to SLAs and quality standards. - Lead technical planning, testing, and implementation of new security technologies and system integrations, managing projects from scoping through delivery. - Work with IT/Security teams to improve the existing and future integrations with our IdP, ensuring user onboarding and offboarding is automated correctly and user audits can be done by our IT and Compliance teams. - Develop and maintain complete technical documentation and controls, system audits, and infrastructure records in partnership with internal and external stakeholders. - Organize and lead annual penetration testing exercises and oversee remediation of identified vulnerabilities. - Manage access control credentials and site access programs. - Develop and lead training, as well as the creation of technical policies and procedures. What You Bring - Post-secondary education in Electronic Engineering Technology, Engineering Sciences, Information Technology, Network Engineering, IT Security, Computer Science, or a related field. - 5+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise physical security systems, with demonstrated depth in Genetec Security Centre — Omnicast VMS and access control modules are required; advanced troubleshooting and multi-server architecture experience strongly preferred. - Working IT and networking knowledge and an understanding of standard IT security practices including network segmentation, SSO and app integration, compliance auditing. You will need to gather requirements from IT/Security teams and execute those requirements in the PPS. - Proven project management experience: you've led large scale security technology pr ... (truncated, view full listing at source)