Director, Digital Solutions

Competition # : 50411

Department: Cyber Security & Digital Solutions

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date: 23-Nov-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

At 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We don’t just implement technology; we modernize outdated systems and reimagine processes.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 Opportunity

Are 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 Accountabilities

• Provide 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 Director Digital Health Enablement and senior government and health-system leaders, translating complex technical, delivery, financial, and operational issues into clear options, risks, and decisions.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships across CSDS, Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health, the Department of Health and Wellness, other public-sector organisations, vendors, and jurisdictional partners.
• Ensure effective portfolio governance, including prioritisation, risk and issue management, escalation, performance visibility, resource planning, and accountability for commitments.
• Champion human-centred, iterative, and continuous-improvement approaches, helping teams adopt modern digital practices and respond effectively to changing requirements.
• Work collaboratively to identify opportunities for innovation, reuse, standardisation, automation, and increased value across the digital-health ecosystem.
• Provide sound stewardship of human and financial resources, including workforce planning, performance management, budget oversight, forecasting, procurement support, and value-for-money recommendations.
• Represent Digital Health Enablement in governance forums, partner engagements, working groups, and cross-sector planning activities, promoting a connected and system-wide approach to digital-health delivery.
  
  

How You Can Make an Impact

• Enable safer and more effective digital-health delivery by engaging early, resolving uncertainty, and reducing downstream risk and rework.
• Improve the end-to-end partner experience by making CSDS pathways, requirements, decisions, and accountabilities easier to understand and navigate.
• Help major health initiatives move from concept to implementation with stronger alignment across technology, clinical needs, operations, security, privacy, procurement, and vendors.
• Build an engaged team that is trusted for its judgement, responsiveness, collaboration, and ability to create a practical path forward.
• Advance digital enablement that contributes to better healthcare experiences and outcomes for Nova Scotians.
  
  

Qualifications and Experience

You are a credible and collaborative people leader with strategic leadership experience and a demonstrated record of delivery in complex environments. You are comfortable working across executive, operational, clinical, business, and technical settings, and you can translate competing needs into focused action.

• Progressive leadership experience in digital delivery, information technology, health informatics, service transformation, business analysis, enterprise or solution architecture, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams, including internal employees, external resources, partners, and vendors.
• Experience overseeing a portfolio of complex initiatives and balancing strategic priorities, operational pressures, delivery risk, and changing requirements.
• A strong understanding of digital solutions and how technology, data, architecture, security, privacy, procurement, and operations come together to enable sustainable services.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and bring together diverse partners to reach constructive outcomes.
• Experience providing clear, concise, and evidence-informed advice to senior leaders and decision-making bodies.
• Experience with governance, prioritisation, risk management, financial stewardship, resource planning, vendor management, and service improvement.
• Knowledge of modern digital and internet-era practices, including human-centred design, agile and iterative delivery, product or service thinking, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex information accessible to varied audiences.
• Demonstrated commitment to service excellence, respect, integrity, diversity, accountability, and the public good.
  
  

An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered. Experience in healthcare, digital health, government, or another complex regulated environment would be considered an asset.

We recognise that people bring different combinations of skills and experience and that not every candidate will check every box. If this opportunity interests you, tell us how your experience and perspective would help you succeed in the role.

We will assess the above qualifications and experience using tools such as assessments, presentations, interviews, reference checks, etc.

Benefits

Based on the employment status, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.

Additional Information

This position is based in Halifax. Periodic travel throughout Nova Scotia will be required.

What We Offer

• Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
• Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
• Countless career paths
• A dynamic, client-focused office environment where service excellence and teamwork are our focus.
  
  

Pay Grade:EC 14

Salary Range:$4,754.34 - $5,942.94 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement: Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians, Persons of African Descent, Racialized Persons, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ Persons and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

Accommodation Statement: We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

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PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

If you are receiving a pension from the Nova Scotia Public Service Superannuation Plan (PSSP) or any related plans, you cannot receive pension payments while contributing to the same plan. If you accept a position that requires PSSP contributions, your pension payments must be stopped. Please contact the Nova Scotia Pension Services Corporation for more information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. Where required, candidates must provide proof that they are legally entitled to work in Canada. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to [email protected].