Desjardins Group

Team Lead, Data Support - Projects

Desjardins Group$90K — $120K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Minimum eight years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of French and advanced proficiency in English
  • Advanced skills in Power BI, Jira, Confluence, and Excel
  • Familiarity with data and analytical environments
  • Understanding of the Business Services sector
  • Experience within project-managed environments

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and develop a team of data business analysts
  • Align data-related activities across the Business Services sector
  • Support project rollouts with sector solutions
  • Facilitate team skill development in governance, AI, and analytics
  • Prioritize team activities based on capabilities
  • Implement common practices, tools, and standards
  • Plan and track skills development and training for the team

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan for stable retirement income
  • Group insurance including telemedicine access
  • Health and wellness expense reimbursement and telework equipment
Full Job Description
As Team Lead, Data Support - Projects, it's your job to manage and mobilize a team of data business analysts acting as data domain experts on projects. You plan, prioritize, and oversee your team's mandates to ensure the availability, quality, consistency and decision-making value of data used throughout the organization. You play an active role in integrating governance practices, aligning initiatives with organizational standards, and developing analytical and artificial intelligence capabilities across the Business Services sector. You're a key resource in the project lifecycle and support teams in assessing data needs, validating deliverables and monitoring benefits. You ensure that frameworks, practices and mechanisms are implemented to promote optimal and responsible use of data. You're also responsible for developing your team's skills, monitoring individual and collective performance, and maintaining a high level of quality for deliverables. You use your expertise to help support a team responsible for developing recommendations on strategic issues related to data operations and governance, systems, and the activation and integration of AI solutions. You assist the team manager with data support for projects in portfolios. In a multi-pronged context of alignment and transformation, you work closely with business partners, technology teams and decision-making bodies, while acting in an advisory, influential and leadership capacity. More specifically, you will be required to:
  • Oversee, mobilize and develop a team of data business analysts
  • Ensure alignment and connection points with all data-related activities across the Business Services sector
  • Support the sector when solutions are being rolled out
  • Ensure team skill development (governance, AI, advanced analytics)
  • Prioritize activities and efficiently allocate mandates according to capabilities
  • Develop and implement common practices, tools and standards
  • Plan and track skills development, including training, coaching and onboarding


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 eight years of relevant experience
  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
  • Knowledge of French is required
  • Advanced proficiency 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
  • Advanced proficiency in Power BI, Jira, Confluence and Excel
  • Knowledge of data and analytical environments
  • Knowledge of the Business Services sector
  • Knowledge of project mode
Action oriented, Ambiguity, Customer Focus, Develops talent, Differences, Directs work, Engagement, Nimble learning, Plans and aligns, Teams

Trade Union (If applicable)

Job Family
Management support and expertise support (FG)

Unposting Date
2026-07-9

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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48,200 employees
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