Senior Advisor, IT Architecture

Desjardins • Montreal, QC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 in your specialty area. 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 the compliance, alignment and development of solution architecture in your specialty areas. You produce specialized deliverables related to enterprise architecture 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 for one or more architecture teams for projects and initiatives in your specialty area that may have a significant, large-scale impact on the entire organization Elaborate, maintain and communicate the development plan for your architecture domain in line with enterprise architecture and modernization targets. Ensure that solution architecture is aligned with the priorities and targets set for this area Advise specialists and business partners to help them orient, plan, develop, execute and monitor innovative technology solutions for various strategic initiatives under your responsibility by setting out provisions for related applications Develop and update policies, standards, IT solutions and architecture targets (including supporting foundations) to support your area’s strategic projects and initiatives, taking into account issues related to data, applications and infrastructure 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• A minimum of eight years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of French is required
• Action oriented
• Customer Focus
• Differences
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Nimble learning
• Strategic mindset

Nice To Haves

• other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert advisor for one or more architecture teams for projects and initiatives in your specialty area that may have a significant, large-scale impact on the entire organization
• Elaborate, maintain and communicate the development plan for your architecture domain in line with enterprise architecture and modernization targets.
• Ensure that solution architecture is aligned with the priorities and targets set for this area
• Advise specialists and business partners to help them orient, plan, develop, execute and monitor innovative technology solutions for various strategic initiatives under your responsibility by setting out provisions for related applications
• Develop and update policies, standards, IT solutions and architecture targets (including supporting foundations) to support your area’s strategic projects and initiatives, taking into account issues related to data, applications and infrastructure
• 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

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior