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Job DescriptionThe House of Commons’ Digital Services and Real Property is currently looking to staff the Digital Enterprise Strategist position.
This recruitment and selection process is restricted to House of Commons employees at the ADG-B level and up.
The Digital Enterprise Strategist provides senior-level leadership in defining and advancing the strategic direction for Enterprise Digital Domain (EDD) solutions across the House of Commons, with a strong focus on infrastructure, security, and identity. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise digital strategies and roadmaps that align client needs, organizational priorities, and the broader House of Commons and DSRP strategic plans. Acting as a recognized authority within their digital domain, the Strategist ensures long-term alignment, traceability, value realization, resilience and security-by-design across digital product lines.
Working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, the Digital Enterprise Strategist bridges product strategy, infrastructure architecture, and cyber security, influencing enterprise-wide digital standards, policies, and best practices, with a strong emphasis on IT security, risk management, and the secure adoption of technologies, and acts as a key liaison with Cyber security teams. The Strategist provides strategic advice to senior leadership, including Director Generals and the Chief Information Officer, and ensures that enterprise products and platforms meet security, privacy, and compliance requirements. The Digital Enterprise Strategist will focus on enabling efficient and secure platform adoption, championing platform engineering approaches that reduce toil, streamline developer workflows, and incorporate security best practices (DevSecOps). The role leads the assessment of emerging technologies and enterprise initiatives, supports governance and decision-making, and promotes successful adoption of digital solutions by ensuring integration, reliability, security, and alignment with evolving organizational needs.
Top Reasons to Join the Digital Enterprise Strategy team:
Join a forward-looking team that plays a central role in shaping the long-term digital direction of the House of Commons. The Digital Enterprise Strategy team works at the enterprise level, partnering with senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams to influence strategic decision-making, modernize digital capabilities, and support the delivery of reliable, client-focused services.
Education :
- Successful completion of a college or university degree in Information Technology, system engineering, innovation management or another related field or an acceptable combination of education, technical training, and experience.
Experiences :
- Experience providing senior-level strategic and technical leadership to guide the secure design, adoption, and governance of enterprise technologies, ensuring alignment with organizational security, privacy, and compliance requirements in support of enterprise or product-centric digital strategies;
- Experience developing, owning, and maintaining enterprise digital roadmaps for a specific technology domain (Identity and Access Management, Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security), translating long-term vision into executable initiatives, outcomes, and adoption plans;
- Experience providing strategic advice and direction to senior management on complex technology, platform, or enterprise architecture matters, including recommendations that inform decision-making and future-state vision;
- Experience collaborating across product lines, domains, and multidisciplinary teams to guide the design, integration, and adoption of solutions aligned with enterprise technology direction;
- Experience establishing, evolving, and promoting enterprise standards, best practices, and governance frameworks for a defined technology domain or application platform;
- Experience assessing emerging technologies, industry trends, and organizational impacts within a technology family to inform strategic direction, investment decisions, and long-term planning.
Assets :
- Experience applying government or House of Commons IT policies, directives, and governance frameworks;
- Experience with secure enterprise on-premises, cloud or hybrid infrastructure strategies, and large-scale system integration;
- Experience incorporating cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance considerations into enterprise digital strategies.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace by providing a barrier-free recruitment and selection process. If you have an accommodation request, require material in an accessible format, or need additional support with the application process, please contact Recruitment and Selection Services at [email protected].
Each bilingual position is assigned a linguistic profile that identifies the level of second language proficiency for reading comprehension, written expression and oral interaction required. The profile for this position is CBC. Consideration may be given to candidates with other linguistic profiles.
Please note the following, candidate may be required to:
- Work irregular hours, including evenings and on weekends
- Carry a mobile device
- Travel nationally and/or internationally as needed
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Qualified candidates may be considered for future vacancies for this role or for other similar and/or related roles on an indeterminate and/or fixed term basis.
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