IT Solutions Architect

Job title: IT Solutions Architect

Job description: 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.

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Job Level NV-11

As an IT Solutions Architect, 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 based on architecture targets and supporting foundation. You ensure consistency with the organization’s current and future needs and structure, while also ensuring that new components are compatible with the existing architecture (software applications, products, services, etc.).

You lead and influence the organization’s business partners and specialists on solution or enterprise architecture initiatives that are strategic, complex and innovative. Your initiatives require extensive, in-depth expertise across several technology and/or business fields and knowledge of data, applications and infrastructure.

You make recommendations regarding solution or enterprise architecture. You produce specialized deliverables as part of projects or initiatives that have a very high degree of operational and conceptual complexity, using your analytical skills and extensive, in-depth knowledge of your line of business and the organization. Coordination is critical, so you frequently interact with stakeholders working in a wide range of other fields. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential.

You serve as an expert advisor and subject matter expert in your field, as well as a resource person and coach for senior management and decision-making bodies.

General Information on the Position

Main responsibilities

Serve as an expert advisor and subject matter expert to an architecture team for large-scale, specialized projects and mandates that significantly impact the entire organization

Advise and assist specialists and business partners to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic mandates under your responsibility. Organize, manage and deliver guidelines, as needed, on specific technical subjects requiring the consensus of multiple stakeholders

Support your unit’s strategic projects and initiatives by developing and updating policies, standards, architecture targets and supporting foundations, or technology solutions, taking into account aspects pertaining to data, applications and infrastructure

Identify, analyze and diagnose major issues. Establish guidelines and make recommendations to the appropriate decision-making bodies and committees

Represent your unit before senior management committees and decision-making bodies

Represent Desjardins’s position when making agreements with external partners and organizations.

Other working conditions

Work location: The work arrangement for the position is hybrid work #LI-Hybrid

Number of jobs available : 1

Qualifications

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

For vacant positions available in Quebec, please note that knowledge of French is required

Desjardins Cross-sector skills Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Nimble learning

Key competencies for the job Interpersonal Savvy, Strategic mindset

Work Location 1, Complexe Desjardins, Montréal

Trade Union Non Syndiqué

Unposting Date 2023-10-27

Job Family Information technology (FG)

Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, and one of the largest employers in the country. It offers a full range of financial products and services and is home to a wealth of expertise in property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance, wealth management, services for businesses of all sizes, securities brokerage, asset management, venture capital, and secure, leading-edge virtual access methods.

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