Product Owner, Security Operations

BCLC exists to generate win-wins for the greater good.
 

For our people, our players, our communities, our industry, and our planet.
 

Lottery | Casino | Sports
 

Being a social purpose company, we are not only able to better align our business decisions with our purpose, but more importantly, we are committing to doing our part in creating a better world.

We bring our purpose to life by ensuring all our actions, behaviours and decisions create benefits for communities and the planet.

Motivated and guided by our social purpose, everything we do must benefit the greater good. And we encourage our employees, partners, players, industry and communities to engage with us on this ambition.

We want you to be where you feel you can do your best work. This job can be done remotely providing you reside in BC.

        For those who prefer working in a community with others, we have two beautiful offices in convenient locations: 

        2940 Virtual Way, Vancouver | 74 Seymour Street W, Kamloops

This is a Permanent, Full Time opportunity
Expected Salary Range: $101,122.00 - $126,403.00 - $158,003.00 

        Our typical hiring range will be +/- 10% of the midpoint shown above

        Factors influencing this decision include qualifications and market conditions for the role

The Company
 

For over three decades, BCLC has delivered exceptional gambling entertainment for British Columbians. To fulfill our social purpose we have a vision to revolutionize gambling entertainment through engaging experiences that build and benefit communities. We operate national and provincial lotteries in partnership with 3500 retail partners, provide the games, technology & oversight to 37 brick & mortar casinos, and operate a safe secure and 100% legal online gambling presence PlayNow.com. In our recently completed fiscal year, BCLC generated a record $1.6 billion in net income to the Province of B.C. to support First Nations, local host governments, health care, education and community programs across the province.

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Director, Cyber Security, the Product Owner for the Security Operations Team (SecOps) plays a leadership role in a specialized Incident Response and collaborative Agile product team, ensuring the mission and vision of the team are executed upon. They will support the team by planning, writing user stories, prioritizing the backlog, and helping remove roadblocks.

As the Product Owner for SecOps, you will strive to ensure team capabilities to administer and monitor relevant security tools and technologies, respond to incidents, evangelize, and influence the best possible security practices of other teams and stakeholders through direct engagement and collaboration.

Key Accountabilities:

• Implements the mission and vision of the product team following Google Autonomic Security Operations practices, and Agile. 
• Provides leadership and coaching to the SecOps Team, inspiring a shared vision, coaching / mentoring their development, performance assessment and change management.
• Develops, maintains, and coordinates as necessary incident response processes and procedures using team-managed technologies and team capabilities. 
• Facilitates and requires fixed recurring time for team members to develop and enhance workflow automation to enhance team productivity and capabilities.
• Facilitates and time for team members to spend on rotation evangelizing and influencing other Product Teams on best security practices.
• Help with the planning and architecture of relevant security tools as needed.
• Participates, facilitates, or leads any applicable SecOps agile ceremonies and/or other meetings and gatherings, such as planning sessions, stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint review meetings. 
• Engages specialists across the organization, or contractors, in addition to product team members. Manages contracts that are needed for relevant consultants, vendors and/or outsourced services. 
• Negotiates with leaders and other stakeholders to remove team impediments, issues, and blockers, including escalating to the right levels within the organization when they cannot be resolved at the team level.
• Reports to stakeholders, including the executive sponsor, Directors or other product teams on the progress and status of product team deliverables. Proactively finds risks and opportunities and makes recommendations for resolution.
• Meets regularly with capability managers to review individual performances and resolve issues;
• Manages the budget and forecasting associated with the work of the product team.

Minimum Required Qualifications:
Education and Experience

• A post-secondary degree in business administration, information technology management or a related discipline;
• 5 - 7 years recent, related experience as well as experience in a leadership capacity;
• An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered;
• Proven expertise with managing Security Operations; 
• Proven record of successful operations and/or security team building and management.

Technical Requirements

• Proven ability to build, lead and mentor teams to success;
• Security and/or Operations Background;
• Knowledge in agile methodologies and tools;
• Excellent organizational and planning skills;
• Demonstrated ability at a management level for business planning and road mapping, and a record of accomplishment of successful management experience in a collaborative, fast-paced business environment;
• Demonstrated ability to build strong and trusting relationships with managers, employees and peers;
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, written and verbal communication skills, problem-solving, analytical thinking/innovation, time management and multi-tasking skills.

What’s in it for you

• Defined benefit pension plan which provides a recurring income you can depend on for life throughout retirement
• We pride ourselves on our flexible working model which supports work-life integration and our 37.5 hour work week
• Professional development including education/certification sponsorship, in house leadership cohorts, LinkedIn Learning
• See all our rewards here
   

However you identify, or whatever your path in life, if you see something here that makes you excited to get to work every day, please apply. We hire people for skills, capabilities and potential, not just education and experience.

We value Respect, Integrity and Community, and we provide an inclusive environment where everyone can feel like they belong.

Our social purpose is much more than returning 100% of net income to the province in the form of healthcare & education programs, and community gaming grants. Check it out!

Did you know BCLC is an industry leader in player health and safe & responsible gambling? Find out more!

We are trained in neurodivergent hiring. If you require accommodation so you can be at your best in the interview, please let us know: recruitment@bclc.com.

All candidates must be at least 19 years of age and legally eligible to work in Canada