Software Designer

Description

iA Financial Group has embarked on a transformation aimed at enhancing the software development experience for IT teams and accelerating value delivery across all business lines. Specifically, the DevX program was created to simplify organizational complexity through the implementation of a software engineering platform. This platform involves, among other things, establishing missing elements to enable continuous delivery and improving the availability of lower-tier environments.

In this context, the ideal candidate will be responsible for designing corporate application solutions, implementing and managing development tools, while promoting best DevSecOps practices within iA Financial Group.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with solution architects and enterprise architecture to position products under incubation.
• Work with development teams across business lines to understand their needs (e.g., CI/CD) and respond to them.
• Support the deployment of software development products and their associated DevSecOps practices across business lines.
• Develop and implement a DevSecOps strategy aligned with corporate objectives.
• Contribute to the operation of iA Financial Group’s software development platforms (Azure DevOps Server, Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, Artifactory, etc.), ensuring updates, feature additions, and retirements.
• Collaborate on maintaining the product backlog for the development team.
• Write technical stories for the development team.
• Design innovative, structured, high-performing, and ideally reusable solution components that integrate seamlessly into the enterprise ecosystem.
• Perform detailed solution designs in alignment with architecture standards in areas such as software engineering, IT infrastructure, information security, data management, and application/data integration.
• Provide support for IT assets managed by the team on a rotational basis to ensure their availability.
• Act as a technical leader for the solution delivery team and oversee delivery efforts to ensure design integrity. In some cases, build and implement the most complex components while ensuring compliance with integration, design, development, and information security standards.
• Promote the reuse of existing components and participate in the selection of third-party software, services, or external components (e.g., cloud solutions).
• Stay up to date with trends in their area of expertise and contribute to the evolution and promotion of cutting-edge methodologies, frameworks, tools, and services aligned with corporate standards.
• Ensure the production, validation, and maintenance of technical and design documentation needed to sustain the developed solutions.
• Mentor internal resources, external service providers, and third-party consultants involved in the design and technical realization of solutions.
• Serve as a technical spokesperson for the delivery team, representing the team internally within the IT division, including solution governance reviews and various external groups, regarding components under their responsibility.
• May be called upon to configure tools and software components, as well as continuous development and deployment environments (DevOps) to optimize solution delivery team efficiency.
• Support the operationalization and deployment of solutions.
  
  

Profile :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or another relevant field of equivalent level.
• 10 years of experience in IT, with at least 5 years in the targeted area of expertise.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience implementing and optimizing DevSecOps processes (certifications such as AZ-400, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc., are considered assets).
• Experience with software development management tools (Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, etc.).
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communicator, structured and technically skilled, with strong synthesis skills and an ability to work effectively in a team.
• Natural leader with the ability to influence and guide others, especially within solution delivery teams and collaborators peripheral to their area of expertise.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent coordination, negotiation, and decision-making abilities.
• Experience working with Agile, LEAN, and ITIL frameworks.
• Intermediate level of English proficiency, as the role involves communicating through calls and emails with English-speaking collaborators, suppliers, and clients based in the U.S. and Canada, as well as reading and creating documentation in English on a weekly basis.
  
  

Additional Profile Elements :

• Mastery of the following tools or concepts: Azure DevOps Server, Azure DevOps Services, GitHub (GitHub Projects, Actions, Security, etc.), GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, .NET, SQL.
• Knowledge of the following is an asset: Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitOps, Artifactory, SonarCloud, xUnit, SpecFlow, Postman, REST, Kafka, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based development environments using event-driven messaging and various technologies.