About this role
Competition # : 50411 Department: Cyber Security & Digital SolutionsLocation: HALIFAXType of Employment: PermanentUnion Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG Closing Date: 23-Nov-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)About UsAt CSDS, we prioritize people?both within our team and in the communities we serve. Our mission is to redefine how Nova Scotians engage with government by creating accessible, reliable digital solutions centered around user needs. In today's tech-driven world, CSDS empowers government departments with essential digital solutions to meet Nova Scotians' expectations.
As a trusted partner across government, we enable departments to fulfill their mandates with secure, user-friendly services. From healthcare and education to public safety, we collaborate to transform how services are designed and delivered. We don't just implement technology; we modernize outdated systems and reimagine processes. Our agile, data-driven approach ensures that digital services are both efficient and adaptable to Nova Scotia's evolving needs. Joining CSDS means contributing to work that makes a real difference.
From providing vital tech support to healthcare professionals to strengthening cybersecurity and developing scalable digital platforms, you'll play a key role in building a more inclusive, responsive government for Nova Scotians. Together, we're setting new standards for digital public service, delivering resilient solutions that meet today's needs?and anticipate tomorrow's challenges.
About Our OpportunityAre you a collaborative, forward-looking leader who can turn complex health-system needs into clear digital pathways and better outcomes? Digital Solutions helps health initiatives move safely from early idea through design, review, approval, implementation, and production readiness. The team works across CSDS, Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health, the Department of Health and Wellness, vendors, and other partners to shape solution design, strengthen architecture and governance, reduce risk, and coordinate dependencies across the broader digital health environment.As Director, Digital Solutions, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for the team responsible for digital-health intake, business analysis, solution architecture, service navigation, and early delivery enablement.
Reporting to the Executive Director of Digital Health Enablement, you will create the conditions for multidisciplinary teams to deliver secure, scalable, user-centred solutions that support clinical care, health-system transformation, and improved experiences for patients, providers, and partners. You will bring structure to ambiguity, establish trusted relationships, and ensure initiatives receive timely guidance on technical design, architecture review, security and privacy alignment, procurement, operational readiness, and enterprise dependencies.
Your leadership will help partners make informed decisions earlier, prevent avoidable redesign, and move priority work forward with greater clarity and confidence. Primary AccountabilitiesProvide senior leadership and oversight for the Digital Solutions portfolio, setting clear priorities and ensuring work is aligned with departmental, health-system, and enterprise objectives. Lead and support managers, solution architects, business analysts, and other multidisciplinary resources, creating an empowered, inclusive, accountable, and delivery-focused team culture.
Oversee the intake, assessment, and early shaping of digital-health initiatives, ensuring partners receive practical guidance to define needs, clarify outcomes, identify dependencies, and determine the appropriate delivery and approval pathway. Guide initiatives through solution design, architecture review, security and privacy alignment, procurement and contractual considerations, implementation planning, production readiness, and transition to operational support. Provide advice and recommendations to the Executive