Job DescriptionLocation: Toronto or WinnipegReferral Level: Level 1Overall Job PurposeThe Senior Manager, Platform Engineering (Privileged Access Management (PAM) Vault Engineer) is accountable for platform outcomes that enable consistent, secure, and scalable delivery across pods, with a specialized mandate over the enterprise vault secrets management platform. The role defines and applies platform standards and guardrails for secrets, encryption, and dynamic credential services, resolves cross-team constraints, and balances platform reliability, security, and usability in alignment with Technology governance.
Key Accountabilities- Platform Delivery Outcomes
- Own platform delivery outcomes across multiple teams for the PAM Vault service, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability requirements are met.
- Design and validate Vault services, automation patterns, and enablement tooling (secrets engines, dynamic credentials, PKI, encryption-as-a-service) aligned to architecture and security standards.
- Cross-Team Constraint Resolution
- Resolve cross-pod delivery constraints such as pipeline secrets injection, environment bottlenecks, and shared service reliability, and drive durable fixes.
- Observability and Operational Readiness
- Drive Vault observability, operational readiness, and incident learning (audit logging, seal/unseal health, token and lease telemetry) to improve service maturity.
- Dependency Coordination
- Coordinate dependencies with Software, Infrastructure, Security/Risk, and Architecture partners; surface trade-offs and sequencing impacts.
- Escalation and Governance
- Determine when escalation is required due to enterprise impact or security risk (for example key material exposure or privileged secret compromise); ensure governance engagement.
- AI-Enabled Delivery
- Enable AI-enabled delivery by standardizing safe patterns for automation, policy enforcement, and developer productivity tooling around secrets consumption.
- Standards and Discipline
- Define and reinforce platform standards (runbooks, SLOs/SLAs where applicable, change discipline, secret rotation and revocation policy) and ensure adoption.
- Community and Mentoring
- Contribute to chapters/communities by sharing practices, improving standards, and mentoring via influence.
Qualifications- Post-secondary education in Technology or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant progressive experience delivering platform services and enablement capabilities in enterprise environments, including hands-on HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Conjur administration and engineering.
- Strong judgement across reliability, security, usability, and cost trade-offs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering and operations stakeholders.
- Experience with automation, CI/CD enablement, and service operability disciplines, including secrets management integration into pipelines.
- Experience embedding AI-enabled tooling responsibly within platform services and workflows.
Benefits: - COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION: competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
- EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE: competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short-term & long-term disability plans.
- RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS: voluntary Group RRSP enrolment with employer matching component.
- WORK LIFE BALANCE: paid volunteer days, competitive time off including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangements.
- INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY: living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).
The expected annual base salary range for this role is $118,500 - $152,500, which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience to
https://www.mackenzieinvestments.com/en/careers.
Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.
We thank all applicants for their interest in Mackenzie Investments; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Please apply by November 3 2026.
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