Principal IT Integration Architecture Consultant - Data Solutions (Quebec City)

Principal IT Integration Architecture Consultant – Data Solutions

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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).

Advantages

• 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

Equal Opportunity

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