IT Architect

IT Architect

Remote type: The work arrangement for the position is hybrid.

Locations: Montréal, Lévis

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Today

Job requisition ID: R2600074

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IT architecture at Desjardins

At the heart of innovation and client experience. At Desjardins, IT architecture is more than just a technical framework—it’s a strategic driver that moves our mission forward. It relies on Desjardins’s planning, business needs, market trends, and industry standards to build robust, integrated, and sustainable solutions.

With over 9,000 IT professionals, Desjardins is Quebec’s largest private employer of IT professionals. Our top priority: providing an exceptional member/client experience. To achieve this, we focus on security, performance, intelligent integration of solutions, and long-term investments.

IT architecture plays a key role in this vision by orchestrating the interaction between human capital, data, and technologies, while taking internal and external environments into account. It’s an essential pillar for turning Desjardins’s ambitions into concrete and sustainable realities.

The solution architect’s target role

Application solution architecture advisor

Supports the solutions integration architecture advisor and their application scope:

• Designs the application and functional layer of the solution architecture, taking business needs (functional and non-functional) into account.
• Aligns the functional and application layer with architecture targets and other layers of the solution architecture.
• Validates compliance with Desjardins Group’s and sectors’ IT/software frameworks (security, infrastructure, platforms, etc.) that could have an impact on the proposed solution.
• Ensures the reuse of common services and sector-specific services, especially shared solutions and reusable patterns.
• Helps assess the costs (recurring and non-recurring) of the solutions architecture and optimize solution architecture based on the 4 quality dimensions.
• Contributes to strategies (implementation, quality, deployment).
• Directs and supports the landing of solution architecture within the delivery team.

Operations solution architecture advisor

Designs the operational layer (infrastructure, networking, and security) of the solution architecture, taking into account business needs (functional and non-functional):

• Defines the level of service that needs to be delivered and develops solutions.
• Aligns the operational layer with architecture targets and other layers of the solution architecture.
• Validates compliance with Desjardins Group’s and sectors’ IT/software frameworks (security, infrastructure, platforms, etc.) that could have an impact on the proposed solution.
• Ensures the reuse of common services and sector-specific services, especially shared solutions and reusable patterns.
• Helps assess the costs (recurring and non-recurring) of the solutions architecture and optimize solution architecture based on the 4 quality dimensions.
• Contributes to strategies (implementation, quality, deployment, etc.).
• Directs and supports the landing of solution architecture within the delivery team.

Integration solution architecture advisor

In feasibility and design:

• Is accountable for the design of IT solution architectures, taking into account business needs (functional and non-functional), based on architecture targets and shared services, in accordance with norms and standards, and in coordination with the architectural triad.
• Integrates the various layers of architecture into a relevant, consistent, economical, and sustainable IT solution, in coordination with experts from each layer of IT architecture.
• Optimizes solution architecture around the 4 quality dimensions: alignment of operations architecture, technical quality, meeting needs, and costs/benefits.
• Contributes to strategies (implementation, quality, deployment).
• Transfers the solution architecture to the delivery manager.
• Actively monitors opportunities offered by new technologies and business approaches.

Here are the main IT areas we work with:

• Applications
• Web
• Digital
• IT foundations
• IT platforms
• Cryptography
• API
• Cloud computing
• Network and system security
• Telecommunications
• Data
• Business intelligence
• AI

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.

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Job Family

Information technology (FG)

Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America. We're the choice for over 52,000 employees and we're named one of Canada's top employers by Mediacorp and Forbes. We offer a full range of financial products and services and share our expertise in personal services, business services, wealth management, life and health insurance, and property and casualty insurance.

Pursuing a career at Desjardins means being part of an organization that puts people first.

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