Desjardins Group

Senior Advisor, Data governance

Desjardins Group • $100K — $120K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Minimum six years of relevant experience
  • Other combinations of qualifications and experience may be considered
  • Knowledge of French required
  • Intermediate knowledge of English necessary for interaction with partners and clients

Responsibilities

  • Help data producers and users maximize data value for members and clients
  • Act as a specialist advisor in developing data management processes
  • Develop and enhance standards, processes, and tools related to data governance
  • Identify sector-specific data governance needs and opportunities
  • Analyze risks and gaps in governance documents versus operational practices
  • Oversee compliance practices with respect to data governance
  • Coordinate and communicate on the performance and maturity of data governance standards

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan for stable retirement income
  • Group insurance including telemedicine services
  • Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
Full Job Description
As a data governance senior advisor, you help define and implement data management processes, allowing optimal and secure use of data for the benefit of members and clients, with compliance rules, privacy, privacy policies and security in mind. You assist teams by helping them recognize and manage data as a strategic asset. You lead stakeholders in developing practices adapted to a wide range of business needs and in complex, strategic data governance initiatives. You make recommendations about data use and compliance with governance documents that apply to data, as part of initiatives with a high degree of operational and conceptual complexity that have a significant impact on the business sector. Your initiatives require extensive, in depth knowledge of your line of work. You serve as a specialist advisor and subject matter expert on data governance for stakeholders, and as a resource person and coach for decision making bodies. You interact with many stakeholders working in a wide range of fields to understand and communicate issues and influence decision making. More specifically, you will be required to:
  • Help data producers and users understand how to valorize data for the benefit of members and clients, in keeping with sound data governance
  • Serve as a specialist advisor to teams in developing and applying data management processes and controls
  • Develop, operationalize and improve standards, processes, tools and best practices related to data governance foundations
  • Coordinate identification of the sector's data governance needs and opportunities
  • Help the sector analyze risks and potential gaps between what is set out in the governance documents and their operational practices
  • Oversee the development and implementation of practices and mechanisms to ensure compliance with the governance documents that apply to data
  • Coordinate, monitor, measure and communicate about the performance of the standards and the practices in place, including changes in data governance maturity
  • Lead projects related to the development of data governance


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.

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What you bring to the table
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • A minimum of six years of relevant experience
  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
  • Knowledge of French is required
  • Intermediate knowledge of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
Action oriented, Communicates effectively, Complexity, Customer Focus, Differences, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning, Strategic mindset

Trade Union (If applicable)

Job Family
Data (FG)

Unposting Date
2026-10-8

About Desjardins Group

Desjardins Group is a Canadian cooperative financial group with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1900 and has since grown to become the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, with over 7 million members and clients. The group offers a range of financial services including banking, insurance, wealth management, and investment services. Desjardins Group operates primarily in Quebec and Ontario, but also has a presence in other Canadian provinces as well as in the United States and Europe. The group is committed to social responsibility and sustainability, and has implemented various initiatives to promote these values.
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