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CDPQ

Global pension fund manager and investor

Enterprise Architect - Technology, AI and Data

Data ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, or a related field.
  • At least 10 years of experience in technology, including at least five years in enterprise architecture or a similar role.
  • Demonstrated experience in a financial institution or investment environment and understanding of the investment business.
  • Mastery of enterprise and solution architecture disciplines, with the ability to operate at all levels while maintaining a strategic perspective.
  • A solid understanding of cloud architectures, microservices, application programming interfaces, data, and enterprise-scale integration.
  • Understanding of major technology trends and their impact on an organization like La Caisse.
  • Ability to challenge strategic directions, structure complex problems, and formulate clear recommendations.
  • Excellent command of spoken and written French and English, including oral and/or written interactions with external partners based outside Quebec.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve La Caisse’s structural technology orientations and positions in AI, agentic systems, data, analytics, and technology, aligned with organizational priorities.
  • Evaluate and position emerging technologies, such as agentic platforms, hyperautomation tools, analytics surfaces, unstructured-data infrastructures, and integration strategies, and translate their implications into actionable decisions for La Caisse.
  • Maintain an enterprise perspective on the digital maturity of business capabilities in data, technology, AI, and analytics, and ensure their coherent evolution over time.
  • Monitor technology trends and contribute to the technology roadmap through platform evaluation and rationalization, investment recommendations, and positioning in the reference catalog.
  • Understand business needs and translate them into target, reference, and transition architectures for structured and unstructured data, AI, analytics, and technology.
  • Model business capabilities by domain and determine the appropriate technology orientations to support them, with emphasis on AI-augmented capabilities.
  • Define agentic architecture patterns, including multi-agent architectures, orchestration, delegation, state management, context persistence, guardrails, human oversight, and lifecycle governance in a regulated environment.
  • Collaborate with the Data teams to design the semantic foundations that allow AI agents to operate on reliable and interpretable data.
  • Establish and maintain reusable architectural patterns for data products, AI products, retrieval-augmented generation, GraphRAG, automation, and hyperautomation.
  • Develop and maintain the associated architectural toolkit, including decision templates, adoption guides, routing criteria, and best practices.
  • Support delivery teams in developing solutions aligned with enterprise architecture orientations.
  • Contribute to the architectural governance model by participating in the architecture board, documenting decisions using architecture decision records, and applying the decision taxonomy.
  • Identify and report architectural risks in the covered domain, including technical debt, critical dependencies, and obsolescence, and contribute to their mitigation.
  • Ensure alignment with related functions, including data, AI, security, technology platform, and delivery teams.
  • Contribute to the visibility of the architecture practice and the development of its community of practice.

About the Company

CDPQ

Global pension fund manager and investor

La Caisse manages the funds for Québec’s public and parapublic pension and insurance plans and invests globally to generate long-term returns that support the province’s economy. It allocates capital across asset classes like private equity, stocks, bonds, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure, using subsidiaries such as Ivanhoé Cambridge and Otéra Capital to build a diversified portfolio. It is government-backed with a mandate to balance returns and public development, operating with a global network of offices and a governance framework focused on transparency and responsibility. Its goal is to maximize long-term value for Québec’s pension and insurance plan members while promoting economic growth in Québec and advancing climate-related investments, including a carbon-neutral portfolio by 2050 and about $400 billion in climate action investments by 2030.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
$10.9B
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
1965

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