3 days ago
Montréal, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Translate business and technology requirements into system, technology, and organizational solutions.
- Lead governance of solution reviews and propose, review, and approve architecture decisions.
- Ensure solutions are aligned and integrated with appropriate ecosystems and recommend pragmatic workarounds.
- Oversee end-to-end solution integrity and quality from design through delivery, including implementation oversight and validation against test results.
- Provide multidisciplinary leadership to designers, analysts, developers, external collaborators, and vendors.
- Support management of project timelines, scope, and budgets.
- Maintain architecture decision traceability and certify and update technical documentation.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture methods, processes, guidelines, standards, tools, and methods.
- Monitor application, component, and technology obsolescence and recommend replacement, upgrades, or retirement.
- Contribute to prioritization and remediation plans and act as application owner in the enterprise repository.
- Monitor architecture trends and emerging approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business computing, information systems, computer or software engineering, mathematics, or another relevant equivalent field.
- 12 years of information technology experience, including at least 7 years as an architecture professional on major projects and within large organizations.
- Leadership experience with multidisciplinary teams comprising internal and external resources.
- Ability to manage multiple dimensions of complex initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts clearly.
- High tolerance for ambiguity, uncertainty, and frequent change.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks including TOGAF and Zachman.
- Experience designing high-volume, high-availability applications and systems.
- Strong knowledge of strategic information technologies.
- Experience with SDLC, DevOps, Agile, MVP, LEAN, and ITIL.
- Advanced proficiency in both French and English for daily verbal and written collaboration across Canada.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility and access to innovative workspaces.
- Flexible group insurance.
- Competitive pension plan.
- Stock purchase plan.
- Vacation, wellness, and personal development days.
- Telemedicine.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- Ergonomic furniture program.
- Performance bonus.
- Discounts on iA products.
- Locations are Quebec City or Montreal, Quebec; posting closes December 7, 2026.
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About Ia
iA is a Swiss software studio best known for iA Writer and iA Presenter—focused writing and Markdown-based presentation apps for macOS, iOS, Windows, and Android. Founded in 2005 by Oliver Reichenstein and headquartered in Zurich with a presence in Tokyo, it sells its products via paid licenses and subscriptions through app stores and direct sales. The company also undertakes typographic and interface design work for publishers and digital products.