Senior Advisor, IT architecture

Desjardins; Montreal West; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Desjardins in Canada is seeking a Senior Advisor IT Architecture to design IT solutions for large-scale projects, ensuring alignment with architecture targets across data, applications, security and infrastructure.

You will lead and influence business partners, coordinate among stakeholders, and deliver strategic architectural guidance across delivery teams for complex initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• A minimum of eight years of relevant experience is required.
• Knowledge of French is required.
• Additional combinations of qualifications may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert advisor on application solutions and operations architecture for large-scale initiatives.
• Integrate delivery teams and guide projects with strategic architectural insights.
• Advise partners to orient, plan, execute and monitor strategic initiatives under your responsibility.
• Design IT solutions, update policies and standards, and ensure alignment with data, security and infrastructure needs.
• Identify and analyze potential IT solutions and report major issues to decision-makers.
• Represent and negotiate on behalf of Desjardins with external partners and organizations.

Skills

Action oriented

Collaborates

Customer Focus

Innovation

Interpersonal Savvy

Strategic mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

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.

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
• Knowledge of French is required

• Action oriented
• Collaborates
• Customer Focus
• Innovation
• Interpersonal Savvy
• 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)

Unposting Date

2026-09-23