Lead Architect - Technical Delivery & Solutions

SIA Innovations Inc.; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 146,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent compensation

Performance incentives

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

SIA Innovations is seeking a Lab Leader to oversee the LAB division and its internal products: Agile+, MIRE, and Common Sense. You will evolve these tools, guarantee the delivery quality of LAB development activities, and promote SIA’s LAB services to clients and IBM.

This role is cross-cutting across all studios, with leadership across multiple engagements, and involves coaching developers, shaping product vision, and driving continuous improvement in line with SIA’s values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
• 6–10 years of enterprise app development experience
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple studios
• Bilingual French/English communication is preferred

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product vision for Agile+, Mire, and Common Sense
• Guarantee LAB development delivery quality across all projects
• Promote LAB services to clients and IBM
• Coach and grow talent across studios across engagements

Skills

Leadership

SDLC ownership

Agile

People management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

IBM Bob

Agile+

MIRE

Common Sense

Job description

Utilization Rate Billable time utilization against target

Delivery Quality Conformance rate to LAB quality standards across studio deliverables

Internal Product Owner & Delivery Quality (LAB)

• Montréal, QC
• Full-Time, Permanent
• 100% On-Site - Salary Range:- 146k - 157k + Performance incentives & benefits Start Date:- September 14, 2026

Is This Opportunity Right for You?

① Does your leadership show up at every stage of the development cycle?

The Lab Leader isn't defined by a single project milestone: you own quality end-to-end across the SDLC (design, development, testing, deployment), set the standard every team follows, and interact with all internal and external stakeholders.

② Are you ready to take on responsibility for a team of developers spread across multiple engagements (both individually and collectively)?

As the manager of all of SIA's developers, you coach, evaluate, and grow talent delivering across different studios, without being attached to any one studio yourself - all in collaboration with each of our studio leaders.

③ Can you balance product vision with team leadership?

The role calls for evolving our internal products and tools (Agile+, MIRE, Common Sense) while providing technical and people leadership to developers across the entire software development lifecycle - all in collaboration with each of our SIA product managers.

If you answered yes to all three, we want to hear from you!

About SIA Innovations

SIA Innovations is a boutique digital transformation consultancy operating at the forefront of AI and hybrid cloud adoption. We help medium and large organizations - across Quebec, Canada, and internationally - take advantage of IBM technologies (AI, agentic, cloud, cybersecurity, automation, blockchain, and more) to increase their agility.

Based in the heart of downtown Montréal (with direct access to the Metro and REM), SIA also has offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Nassau, and works with major clients and public-sector organizations across Quebec, Ontario, the Caribbean, and the United States.

The Role

As Lab Leader, you are responsible for SIA's LAB division and its internal products: Agile+, MIRE, and Common Sense. Your mandate is threefold: evolve these tools so they create real value for our teams and clients, guarantee the delivery quality of all LAB development activities, and promote SIA’s LAB services to the marketplace and to IBM.

This role is cross-cutting: you are not attached to any specific studio. Your influence extends across all of SIA's studios and delivery teams.

What You Will Do

Your responsibilities are a direct expression of SIA's five core values.

Value Creation

• Define and evolve the product vision for Agile+, Mire, and Common Sense
• Identify continuous-improvement opportunities across our development processes and tools
• Build and maintain a library of reusable components and best practices for the LAB
• Contribute to internal R&D initiatives and SIA's intellectual property

Commitment to Clients

• Ensure the quality standards defined for the LAB translate concretely into client deliverables
• Translate studio and client needs into clear priorities for the internal products' roadmap
• Document and communicate the LAB's quality standards and development processes

Servant Leadership

• Support development teams across all studios without direct hierarchical authority - through coaching and example
• Coach and guide the development team through the LAB's and the SDLC's evolution from “doing” to “thinking,” notably through the adoption of agentic AI tools like IBM Bob
• Contribute actively to business development: demos, proposals, and RFPs showcasing our internal products, as well as promoting SIA online (social media presence) and in person (networking, events, volunteering)
• Help onboard new developers to the LAB's tools and practices

Sustainable Practices

• Lead internal “Cool Stuff to Know” sessions on LAB products and best practices
• Maintain ongoing awareness of tools, methodologies, and technologies relevant to the LAB
• Contribute to solutions that are durable, robust, and well documented

Empowered Teams

• Take full ownership of LAB outcomes, with autonomy over product and quality decisions
• Manage the full lifecycle of internal products: prioritization, delivery, adoption, continuous improvement
• Support studio teams in achieving their quality goals, without taking over their work

The Consulting Environment: What to Expect

Expectations

• Challenging and rewarding work with real impact: your decisions shape SIA products and influence client solutions.
• The opportunity to create value for high-profile private & public sector clients in a variety of industries & geographies, across all of SIA’s innovation studios.
• Significant autonomy over the vision and roadmap of SIA’s products and tools.
• The chance to work with leading-edge Ai and hybrid cloud tools and technologies for high performance.
• A dynamic and stimulating work environment based on Agile methodologies, diverse empowered teams and outstanding colleagues.
• The opportunity to work in a boutique IT consultancy and collaborate closely with IBM, one of the industry-leading enterprise technology companies.
• Accelerated growth and advancement.
• Excellent compensation, performance incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.
• A blended work/life environment and culture.
• Continuous learning and personal growth.
• An opportunity to build your business/social networks and soft skills.
• Ability to influence project work without direct hierarchical authority, through credibility
• Ability to prioritize work across studios who may sometimes have conflicting needs.
• 100% on-site presence to stay close to studio teams.
• Communicate proactively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Prioritize your work and career.
• When working at client sites, adapt to the client's working hours and dress code as much as possible.
• Continuously invest in your personal growth (which will require time outside of regular business hours for keeping current, learning, networking, team building, client/partner events and other corporate social activities).
• Be prepared for irregular hours and occasional travel (with overnight stays) to accommodate client expectations and deadlines.
• Ensure that you have the personal agility to deal with unplanned needs; this comes with taking ownership over business outcomes (not output).
• Be “on call” and available in the event of client or project emergencies (yes, even while on vacation!).
• Plan vacations and time-off (maximum 2 consecutive weeks) during our summer and winter slow-down periods and outside of our blackout periods.

Skills That Will Help You Thrive

① Hard Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 6 to 10 years of experience in enterprise application development
• Hands-on experience in several of the following areas: containers / clusters (Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo, UrbanCode, Buddy), monitoring (ELK, Logdna, Prometheus), development (NodeJS, Java, React), databases (CloudantDB, MongoDB, DB2, MySQL)
• Experience with product or backlog management (e.g., ClickUp) and Agile methodologies
• Experience with AI or automation projects is an asset

② Soft Skills

• Full professional bilingualism in French and English, spoken and written
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical issues for varied audiences
• Discipline, organization, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities