Senior Advisor, IT architecture

Desjardins; Lévis; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and annual bonus

4 weeks of flexible vacation starting

Defined benefit pension plan

Group insurance including telemedicine

Health and wellness expenses and telew

Telework equipment

Benefits apply based on eligibility

Job summary

Desjardins is seeking a Senior Advisor IT Architecture to design IT solutions that meet business needs across large-scale projects. You will lead and influence stakeholders, ensuring alignment with architecture targets and shared platforms.

You will provide expert advice on application solutions, coordinate with multiple delivery teams, and drive strategic initiatives requiring deep cross-domain expertise in data, applications, security, and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Eight years of relevant experience or more.
• Proficiency of French is required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as expert advisor on application solutions and operations architecture and as an integrator for delivery teams.
• Advise business partners and stakeholders to develop and monitor strategic initiatives; organize and deliver guidance on technical topics.
• Design IT solutions and update policies, standards, and architecture targets to support projects.
• Identify IT solutions meeting the organization's needs; report major issues; provide guidelines to decision bodies.
• Represent and negotiate on behalf of Desjardins with external partners and organizations.

Skills

Architecture design

Stakeholder management

Strategic mindset

Interpersonal savvy

French proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Required

As a Senior Advisor IT Architecture, you design IT solutions to meet the business needs of large-scale projects or programs using Desjardins Group’s architecture targets and shared platforms. You ensure consistency with the organization’s structure, as well as current and future needs, and ensure that new elements are compatible with existing architecture. You lead and influence the organization’s business partners and stakeholders on innovative, complex strategic initiatives related to solution architecture. Your initiatives require extensive, in-depth expertise across several IT fields, including data, applications, security and infrastructure. You make recommendations on IT development and implementation strategies that comply with architecture targets. You produce specialized deliverables as part of projects or initiatives that have a very high degree of operational and conceptual complexity. You use your analytical skills and comprehensive, in-depth understanding of your line of business and the organization. Coordination is critical. You interact with a very large number of stakeholders working in a wide range of fields. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential. You serve as an expert advisor and subject matter expert, as well as a resource person and coach for senior management and decision‑making bodies. More specifically, you will be required to:

• Serve as an expert advisor on application solutions and operations architecture and as an integrator for one or more delivery teams for projects and initiatives in your specialty area that may have a significant, large-scale impact on the entire organization


• Advise business partners and stakeholders to help them orient, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives under your responsibility. Organize, manage and, as needed, deliver work to provide guidance on specific technical subjects requiring the consensus of multiple stakeholders


• Design IT solutions that meet business needs. Develop and update policies, standards, architecture targets and supporting foundations to support your unit’s strategic projects and initiatives, taking into account issues related to data, applications security and infrastructure


• Identify and analyze potential IT solutions that meet the organization’s needs. Identify and analyze issues. Report major issues. Establish guidelines and make recommendations to decision‑making bodies and committees


• Represent your unit before senior management committees and decision‑making bodies


• Represent and negotiate on behalf of Desjardins and enter the organization into agreements with external partners and organizations.

What we offer*

• Competitive salary and annual bonus


• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year


• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement


• Group insurance including telemedicine


• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment


• Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

What You Bring To The Table

• Bachelor's degree in a related field


• A minimum of eight years of relevant experience


• Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered


• Proficiency of French is required

• Action oriented


• Customer Focus


• Differences


• Interpersonal Savvy


• Nimble learning


• Strategic mindset

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!

Job Family

Information technology (FG)