Old Age Security payments modernization

Industry: Public sector

Delivered for: Government of Canada, Old Age Security

Focus: Payments data modernization and governance

Impact: Enabled a modern, secure payments data foundation for a new payment system

Project scope

  • 1

    Target architecture and migration blueprint

    Scope included design of the target payments data architecture and migration blueprint for a new payments environment, including canonical beneficiary and payment models.

  • 2

    Secure data flows and curated datasets

    Scope included secure data flows, curated payments datasets, and integration patterns across legacy and modern environments to support operations, reporting, and controlled data sharing.

  • 3

    Governance and stewardship standards

    Scope included governance standards for data quality, stewardship, access control, and reuse across sensitive payments data products.

Project context

The legacy payments data environment needed stronger security, clearer governance, and more reliable integration patterns to support a modern payments system in a highly sensitive public-sector context.

Problem

The platform needed a data foundation that could support risk and operational reporting while meeting growing security, audit, and compliance expectations.

Solution

The engagement defined a modern cloud architecture, governed integration patterns, and curated payments data products to support analytics, reporting, and controlled data sharing while aligning with federal security and privacy requirements.

Outcome

The resulting architecture supported a modernized payments system with secure data flows, governed payment models, and a more scalable foundation for operations, reporting, and future change.

Selected outcomes

  • Enabled a modern cloud architecture for the new payments system
  • Standardized beneficiary and payments data models across reporting and integration flows
  • Strengthened governance for sensitive personal information through traceability, controlled access, and secure sharing
  • Reduced operational risk and improved the foundation for future platform change

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