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Senior Director, Business Architecture – Innovation
Posted 2 weeks ago
About the role
- Senior Director shaping enterprise business architecture, strategic foresight, and innovation for iA Financial Group, a Canadian insurance, savings, and wealth management provider.
Responsibilities
- Lead a comprehensive and coherent enterprise business architecture supporting corporate strategy and organizational transformation initiatives
- Define and maintain enterprise-wide business architecture covering business capabilities, value streams, key processes, and transformation initiatives
- Anticipate required business capability evolution, identify gaps, and guide development paths
- Develop business architecture roadmaps connecting corporate strategy, business capabilities, and execution
- Align sector priorities, enterprise capabilities, and transformation roadmaps while supporting strategic trade-offs and decisions
- Define business architecture standards, artifacts, tools, approaches, and methodologies
- Contribute to executive narratives supporting transformation initiatives
- Monitor technological, competitive, societal, and organizational trends influencing financial services
- Identify emerging signals and translate implications into business capabilities, processes, target architectures, and transformation priorities
- Assess the impact of artificial intelligence and autonomous agents on business capabilities
- Translate strategic directions into business capabilities, transformation roadmaps, implementation paths, and tangible outcomes
- Bridge business leaders, IT teams, and the Project Office to create executable transformation roadmaps
- Align business, data, technology, and innovation strategies with enterprise architecture
- Work with the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture to align business and innovation roadmaps with iAFG’s IT strategy
- Collaborate with the leader responsible for Business Models and Business Intelligence from a business architecture perspective
- Provide recommendations to the CTO and executive leadership, making impacts, dependencies, and options visible
- Support decision-making by clarifying capability gaps, impacts, dependencies, and implementation options
- Lead directors and teams through clear direction, senior expertise, and empowerment
- Bring stakeholders together around emerging trends, transformation priorities, and experimentation initiatives
- Develop future-ready capabilities in business architecture, strategic foresight, experimentation, and innovation
Requirements
- Relevant university degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Innovation, or a related field
- Significant experience in business architecture, innovation, or organizational transformation, ideally within a complex business environment
- Knowledge of the financial services industry is an asset
- Understanding of emerging technologies and modern transaction models, including real-time processing, automated workflows, and digital platforms
- Demonstrated ability to gain alignment and drive decisions without formal authority among business leaders, technology teams, and executives
- Strong business acumen, strategic curiosity, and an innovation mindset
- Ability to bring together strategy, business, technology, and financial services perspectives
- Ability to translate strategic directions and emerging trends into roadmaps, business capabilities, experiments, and actionable transformation paths
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills
- Clear communication and influence at strategic levels
- Ability to mobilize stakeholders around a shared vision
- Results-oriented approach focused on experimentation, value creation, and meaningful outcomes
- Understanding of artificial intelligence systems, including autonomous agents and their implications for business processes
- Advanced proficiency in both French and English
- Curiosity and an innovative mindset
- Credible leadership and professional presence
- Sound judgment and professional maturity
- Collaborative approach
- Pragmatism and action-oriented mindset
- Adaptability and commitment to continuous learning
Benefits
- A work environment where learning and development merge with a collective pursuit of excellence
- Artificial intelligence tools supporting personal effectiveness and organizational growth
- Healthy, safe, equitable, and inclusive environment
- Hybrid work environment supported by flexibility and access to inspiring, innovative workspaces
- Flexible group insurance plans
- Competitive pension plan
- Employee share purchase program
- Vacation plan and personal wellness and development days
- Telemedicine services
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Ergonomic furniture program
- Performance bonus
- Discounts on iA products
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