Senior Advisor, IT Architecture

Relevance; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 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

Reimbursement of health and wellness:

Job summary

Desjardins is seeking a Senior Advisor, IT architecture to guide large-scale projects by translating business priorities into architecture requirements, ensuring alignment with enterprise targets and future needs. You will lead and influence partners across the organization on innovative, complex initiatives involving data, applications and infrastructure.

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior management, develop and maintain the architecture roadmap, and collaborate with external partners

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency of French and English due to duties and cross-language collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as expert advisor translating business priorities into architecture requirements with large-scale impact.
• Advise specialists and partners to plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic IT initiatives.
• Develop and maintain the IT architecture roadmap with domain and business leaders.
• Update policies, standards, and architecture targets to support major projects.
• Identify issues, report them, and provide guidelines to decision-makers.
• Represent the unit to senior management and negotiate with external partners.

Skills

Interpersonal Savvy

Strategic mindset

Proficiency of French

Intermediate knowledge of English

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

As a Senior Advisor, IT architecture, you actively monitor opportunities offered by new technologies and business approaches for the organization as a whole. You design solutions to meet the business needs of large-scale projects or programs using Desjardins Group's architecture targets and supporting foundations. 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 and/or business fields and knowledge of data, applications and infrastructure. You make recommendations about architecture and 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 to align IT strategies with the organization’s objectives. 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 to sectors, translate business priorities and strategies into consistent architecture requirements for all dimensions for projects and initiatives specific to your area of expertise that have a significant, large-scale impact on the organization
• Advise specialists and business partners to help them orient, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives under your responsibility, relating to Desjardins architecture and IT solutions. Organize, manage and, as needed, deliver work to provide guidance on specific technical subjects requiring the consensus of multiple stakeholders
• Develop, plan and maintain the business architecture roadmap in collaboration with the domain and business architecture advisor
• Develop and update policies, standards, and architecture targets to support your unit’s strategic projects and initiatives
• 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.

Interpersonal Savvy, Strategic mindset

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.

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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
• Intermediate knowledge of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients

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)

Unposting Date

2026-11-1