Principal IT Integration Architecture Consultant - Data Solutions

Principal IT Integration Architecture Consultant – Data Solutions

Lead the integration of the data ecosystem, working closely with enterprise architects, solution architects and other integration specialists to deliver high‑performance data solutions that meet organizational needs.

• Guide and advise project architects to align on a common TI vision for the data ecosystem.
• Ensure architects understand the current data ecosystem and build architecture accordingly.
• Advises on alignment with corporate strategies and enterprise architecture.
• Validate data solution architectures and the implementation and integration strategy.
• Guarantee that architectures and implementation strategies respect strategic alignment.
• Ensure best practices in data engineering are followed.
• Contribute to business case and strategic study development to support a performant data ecosystem.
• Propose viable data solutions in close collaboration with enterprise and solution architects, evaluating impacts and costs.
• Help define organizational strategies in partnership with enterprise architecture for the information domain.
• Actively contribute to workshops and deliverable writing.
• Coordinate with enterprise architects to ensure strategy is executable and aligned with the target vision.
• Maintain collaboration with enterprise architects to preserve consistency during implementation.
• Own the implementation of the IT component of the data strategy.
• Identify and deploy required IT foundations to achieve strategic and tactical data goals.
• Serve as an organizational change agent to facilitate data strategy execution.
• Validate estimates and scopes for solutions or applications to be developed or integrated.
• Ensure estimates consider all data engineering and analytics elements.
• Promote data engineering and analytics across the organization and influence decision‑makers toward a data‑oriented culture.
• Act as an ambassador for the senior leadership.
• Drive transformation toward a data‑centric operating model.
• Serve as a data‑solution expert when required, across platforms or applications.
• Lead IT discussions with vendors and stay abreast of market trends in data solutions.
• Maintain awareness of data‑related solutions, approaches, and methodologies and share insights with colleagues.
• Support various sectors in the data domain, acting as the IT pillar for ecosystem solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum of ten years of experience in data architecture.
• Strong knowledge of the insurance domain.
• Prior participation in large‑scale projects, business cases, and opportunity studies.
• Expertise in data, analytics, and artificial intelligence IT domains.
• Mastery of platforms and concepts surrounding data engineering, analytics, and AI.
• Experience developing data strategies.
• Advanced proficiency in French (oral and written) and functional proficiency in English (oral and written).

• Competitive salary
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Group insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Vacation time
• Hybrid work option
• Telemedicine service
• Employee assistance program
• A commitment to sustainability initiatives

Beneva is an equal‑opportunity employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and visible and ethnic minorities.