At Desjardins, we believe that artificial intelligence will profoundly transform how way we design, deliver and develop technologies. As Director, IT Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Evolution, you play a strategic role at the heart of this transformation. Reporting to a director in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, you ensure consistency between AI strategy, workforce transformation, skills development and value delivery within the IT function. You help prepare the Information Technology Executive Division for future needs by leading major directions related to responsible AI adoption, work method transformation and development of organizational capacities. You provide cross-functional leadership to teams, managers and business partners to coordinate interrelated strategic initiatives, support trade-offs and ensure consistency in AI investments, priorities and desired benefits. Through your strategic vision, ability to influence and understanding of technological and human issues, you help position the IT function as a lever for creating value for members, clients and the organization. More specifically, you will be required to :

• Define and develop the sector’s vision for artificial intelligence, data and the transformation of IT roles, in line with Desjardins’s priorities.
• Govern and prioritize the Information Technology Executive Division’s portfolio of AI initiatives to ensure optimal allocation of investments and capacities.
• Establish mechanisms for governance, value tracking, benefits management and results measurement associated with AI initiatives.
• Identify, highlight and support high-potential AI use cases to speed up value creation.
• Ensure availability of data and analytics capabilities and measurement mechanisms that are required to sustainably adopt artificial intelligence.
• Define a multi-year vision for evolving IT professions and roles that are expected to be transformed by artificial intelligence and new technologies.
• Monitor future skills and guide strategies for developing, re-skilling and evolving the IT workforce.
• Develop and update the IT and AI training offer to support the acquisition of critical skills.
• Help teams adopt new ways of working and responsibly integrate AI into their activities.
• Support change management initiatives aimed at ensuring that new capacities and practices are permanently incorporated into operations.
• Advise executives on the strategic, organizational and human impacts related to the evolution of technologies and professions.
• Ensure the consistency and integration of transformations affecting data, AI, skills and IT delivery methods.
• Mobilize, develop and evolve a team of highly qualified professionals to support the IT function’s transformation ambitions.
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