Senior Advisor, Artificial Intelligence Strategy

iA Financial Group•Montreal, QC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Build the Future With Us Are you looking to play a leading role in digital transformation and the large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence? As a Senior Advisor, Artificial Intelligence Strategy, you will define, champion, and operationalize the artificial intelligence vision for IT4Bus teams, enabling the consistent, secure, and value-driven adoption of AI across various technology ecosystems while facilitating its practical use by Lines of Business (LOBs). This opportunity will allow you to act as a strategic anchor between corporate directions, IT teams, technology platforms, and business needs, while also playing a tactical role in guiding, prioritizing, and implementing AI capabilities. This position represents an excellent opportunity to showcase your skills and fully realize your potential within a caring and trusted organization. Here, people and their development are at the heart of our priorities, fostering an environment that encourages collaboration and innovation.

Requirements

Holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or another related field.
Has a minimum of 10 years of experience in process automation and innovation, including 5 years of hands-on experience implementing artificial intelligence solutions.
Is recognized for strategic thinking and the ability to align technology directions with business objectives.
Stands out for the ability to influence and mobilize stakeholders across both technology and business teams.
Demonstrates a strong ability to translate vision into actionable directions, roadmaps, and tactical priorities.
Is recognized for influential leadership and expertise in artificial intelligence.
Maintains an active awareness of emerging trends, architectures, and use cases in artificial intelligence.
Has advanced French language proficiency, both written and spoken.
Has advanced English language proficiency, as the role requires delivering presentations, facilitating meetings, and drafting written communications with English-speaking partners on a weekly basis.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain an AI vision aligned with business objectives and corporate priorities.
Develop the target functional and ecosystem architecture for artificial intelligence.
Identify value-creation opportunities and AI-driven differentiators for Lines of Business.
Ensure the consistency of AI initiatives across technology teams, platforms, security teams, and data teams.
Contribute to the evolution of governance frameworks, architectural principles, and AI usage guidelines.
Serve as a strategic advisor for the positioning and prioritization of AI use cases.
Translate the AI vision into actionable directions, roadmaps, and tactical priorities.
Support teams in the practical implementation of AI capabilities and solutions.
Promote the progressive, measurable, and scalable adoption of artificial intelligence solutions.
Partner with business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and structure high-impact needs.
Ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business value.
Maintain active awareness of emerging trends, architectures, and use cases in artificial intelligence.
Act as a recognized subject matter expert and influential leader across technology and business teams.
Contribute to increasing organizational maturity in artificial intelligence.