Senior Advisor, IT Architecture
Top Benefits
About the role
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.
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
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Trade Union (If applicable)
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
2025-08-8
About Desjardins
Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America and the fifth largest cooperative financial group in the world, with assets of $435.8 billion as at March 31, 2024. It was named one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine and by Mediacorp. To meet the diverse needs of its members and clients, Desjardins offers a full range of products and services to individuals and businesses through its extensive distribution network, online platforms and subsidiaries across Canada. Ranked among the world's strongest banks according to The Banker magazine, Desjardins has some of the highest capital ratios and credit ratings in the industry and the first according to Bloomberg News.
Senior Advisor, IT Architecture
Top Benefits
About the role
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.
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
Curious about this profession? Click here
#LI-Hybrid
Trade Union (If applicable)
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
2025-08-8
About Desjardins
Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America and the fifth largest cooperative financial group in the world, with assets of $435.8 billion as at March 31, 2024. It was named one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine and by Mediacorp. To meet the diverse needs of its members and clients, Desjardins offers a full range of products and services to individuals and businesses through its extensive distribution network, online platforms and subsidiaries across Canada. Ranked among the world's strongest banks according to The Banker magazine, Desjardins has some of the highest capital ratios and credit ratings in the industry and the first according to Bloomberg News.