Senior Advisor, Delivery Excellence and Innovation

Location: Lévis

As a Senior Advisor, Delivery Excellence and Innovation, you help transform and continuously improve Service Now delivery capabilities, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and internal governance. Working within a hybrid in-house/external delivery model, you contribute to enhancing the software development life cycle (SDLC) by implementing effective, measurable practices across the entire delivery chain, from requirements definition to production deployment.

You act as a consultant for the management committee to help advance development practices and drive the adoption of modern delivery approaches, including traditional development, low-code and no-code development, automated testing, and capabilities enabled by artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Using a data-driven approach focused on business value, you ensure that investments made in the platform generate tangible benefits for clients by promoting speed, quality, reliability, and efficiency throughout the development cycle.

More specifically, you will be required to:

Define and evolve the delivery cycle strategy to optimize execution speed, delivery quality, predictability of commitments, and the value generated for client sectors

Establish and evolve development practices, working methods, tools and operating models based on business needs, internal governance, compliance requirements and the desired cost-benefit ratio

Help transform the software development life cycle (SDLC) by strengthening source code management, traceability, change governance, environment management, and version control practices.

Optimize continuous delivery capabilities by promoting automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), as well as efficient delivery coordination

Define and evolve testing and quality assurance strategies by focusing on test automation, the standardization of validation practices, and improving the reliability of releases

Promote the use of the most appropriate coding level, including traditional, low-code, and no-code approaches, to accelerate solution delivery while continuing to meet all quality, security, and governance standards

Leverage data, automation and artificial intelligence to improve delivery cycle performance, team productivity and operational efficiency

Establish governance indicators and mechanisms to measure delivery cycle performance, solution quality, value creation and return on investment

Act as a consultant to the management committee and partners to support the evolution of development practices and the managed-service model

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.

What you bring to the table

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

A minimum of eight years of relevant experience

Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Significant experience in the evolution or transformation of development cycles and delivery models

Experience in managed services and delivery partner management

Demonstrated experience in implementing Agile, Dev Ops, and continuous delivery practices

Experience in evolving software development, quality assurance, and test automation practices

Experience in implementing performance indicators and value measurement mechanisms

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We’re committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

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Job Family
Information technology (FG)