Bilingual Specialist, Systems or Montreal

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The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well‑functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust
, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

• Accrued vacation.
• Annual individual performance bonus.
• Group insurance coverage to support your well‑being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.

Join the Information Technology team, in the Specialist, Systems position. In this role, you will be responsible for the full ownership and accountability of business requirements and play a key part in delivering innovative, high‑impact products that solve real business challenges. The Specialist will own the end‑to‑end process of defining and managing business requirements that directly shape the development of scalable, user‑centered solutions.

Serve as the key link between business stakeholders and technical teams—translating strategic needs into clear, actionable requirements.

This is a temporary position with a duration of 13 months.

• Own the discovery and analysis of complex business problems—accountable for eliciting, creating, validating, and maintaining high‑quality business requirements that drive scalable, value‑focused solutions aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Take responsibility for translating business needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria—ensuring alignment across cross‑functional stakeholders and accountability for the clarity, completeness, and quality of requirements delivered to development teams.
• Convert strategic goals into system features and process improvements, owning the prioritization and resolution of ambiguity while balancing business and technical trade‑offs across multiple platforms and lines of businesses.
• Define and control the scope of work, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies—accountable to ensure that business requirements remain viable and aligned throughout dynamic and evolving project life cycles.
• Drive Agile delivery by facilitating key ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) with accountability for ensuring consistent alignment, transparency, and momentum on high‑impact initiatives.
• Lead the adoption of Agile best practices, holding teams accountable for continuous improvement and actively promoting a culture of adaptability, learning, and innovation across the delivery ecosystem.
• Act as a subject matter expert in business processes, Agile methodologies, and enterprise requirements engineering, guiding teams through uncertainty and change.
• Influence without authority, facilitating collaboration across diverse stakeholder groups and POD team members to align on shared outcomes.

• An undergraduate degree in a related field such as computer science, business administration or commerce and/or an Agile certification.
• A minimum of five years of related experience with increasing responsibilities.
• Good oral and written communication skills and presentation skills.
• Project management skills acquired through the management of small to medium‑sized projects.
• Demonstrated interpersonal capabilities with demonstrated ability to interface and work with colleagues, always showing tact and diplomacy.
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills with the ability to reason logically and recognize assumptions.

• Knowledge of CMHC Core Business Systems such as CRM, ERP, GSL or others.
• A master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Bilingualism (French & English).

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