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. 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 architecture and produce specialized deliverables 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 to align IT strategies with the organization’s objectives. 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 to sectors, translate business priorities and strategies into consistent architecture requirements for all dimensions for projects and initiatives specific to your area of expertise that have a significant, large-scale impact on the organization.
• Advise specialists and business partners to help them orient, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives under your responsibility, relating to Desjardins architecture and IT solutions. Organize, manage and, as needed, deliver work to provide guidance on specific technical subjects requiring the consensus of multiple stakeholders.
• Develop, plan and maintain the business architecture roadmap in collaboration with the domain and business architecture advisor.
• Develop and update policies, standards, and architecture targets to support your unit’s strategic projects and initiatives.
• 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

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