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SIA Innovations is seeking a Lab Leader for Agentic AI in Montreal, QC. This role involves end-to-end ownership of quality across the SDLC, managing a team of developers, and balancing product vision with team leadership. Responsibilities include evolving internal products (Agile+, MIRE, Common Sense), ensuring delivery quality, and promoting LAB services. The ideal candidate will have 6-10 years of experience in enterprise application development, strong technical skills in areas like containers, CI/CD, and development languages, and full bilingualism in French and English.
Internal Product Owner & Delivery Quality (LAB) · Montréal, QC · Full-Time, Permanent · 100% On-Site
Is This Opportunity Right for You?
Before reading further, ask yourself three questions. Your honest answers will tell you whether this is the right fit.
① Does your leadership show up at every stage of the development cycle?
The Lab Leader isn't defined by a single project milestone: you own quality end-to-end across the SDLC (design, development, testing, deployment), set the standard every team follows, and interact with all internal and external stakeholders.
② Are you ready to take on responsibility for a team of developers spread across multiple engagements (both individually and collectively)?
As the manager of all of SIA's developers, you coach, evaluate, and grow talent delivering across different studios, without being attached to any one studio yourself – all in collaboration with each of our studio leaders.
③ Can you balance product vision with team leadership?
The role calls for evolving our internal products and tools (Agile+, MIRE, Common Sense) while providing technical and people leadership to developers across the entire software development lifecycle – all in collaboration with each of our SIA product managers.
If you answered yes to all three, we want to hear from you!
SIA Innovations is a boutique digital transformation consultancy operating at the forefront of AI and hybrid cloud adoption. We help medium and large organizations — across Quebec, Canada, and internationally — take advantage of IBM technologies (AI, agentic, cloud, cybersecurity, automation, blockchain, and more) to increase their agility.
Based in the heart of downtown Montréal (with direct access to the Metro and REM), SIA also has offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Nassau, and works with major clients and public-sector organizations across Quebec, Ontario, the Caribbean, and the United States.
As Lab Leader, you are responsible for SIA's LAB division and its internal products: Agile+, MIRE, and Common Sense. Your mandate is threefold: evolve these tools so they create real value for our teams and clients, guarantee the delivery quality of all LAB development activities, and promote SIA’s LAB services to the marketplace and to IBM.
This role is cross-cutting: you are not attached to any specific studio. Your influence extends across all of SIA's studios and delivery teams.
Your responsibilities are a direct expression of SIA's five core values.
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Rewards |
Expectations |
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• Challenging and rewarding work with real impact: your decisions shape SIA products and influence client solutions. • The opportunity to create value for high-profile private & public sector clients in a variety of industries & geographies, across all of SIA’s innovation studios. • Significant autonomy over the vision and roadmap of SIA’s products and tools. • The chance to work with leading-edge Ai and hybrid cloud tools and technologies for high performance. • A dynamic and stimulating work environment based on Agile methodologies, diverse empowered teams and outstanding colleagues. • The opportunity to work in a boutique IT consultancy and collaborate closely with IBM, one of the industry-leading enterprise technology companies. • Accelerated growth and advancement. • Excellent compensation, performance incentives and a comprehensive benefits package. • A blended work/life environment and culture. • Continuous learning and personal growth. • An opportunity to build your business/social networks and soft skills. |
• Ability to influence project work without direct hierarchical authority, through credibility • Ability to prioritize work across studios who may sometimes have conflicting needs. • 100% on-site presence to stay close to studio teams. • Communicate proactively with internal teams and external stakeholders. • Prioritize your work and career. • When working at client sites, adapt to the client's working hours and dress code as much as possible. • Continuously invest in your personal growth (which will require time outside of regular business hours for keeping current, learning, networking, team building, client/partner events and other corporate social activities). • Be prepared for irregular hours and occasional travel (with overnight stays) to accommodate client expectations and deadlines. • Ensure that you have the personal agility to deal with unplanned needs; this comes with taking ownership over business outcomes (not output). • Be “on call” and available in the event of client or project emergencies (yes, even while on vacation!). • Plan vacations and time-off (maximum 2 consecutive weeks) during our summer and winter slow-down periods and outside of our blackout periods. |
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KPI |
How It Is Measured |
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Team Contribution |
Billing and delivery performance of the development team under your responsibility |
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Utilization Rate |
Billable time utilization against target |
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Delivery Quality |
Conformance rate to LAB quality standards across studio deliverables |
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SIA IP Product Contribution |
Value generated by Agile+, Mire, and Common Sense in client engagements, beyond internal adoption alone |
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Personal Billings |
Achievement of individual billing targets set for the role |
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Product Roadmap |
Progress and delivery against defined priorities for LAB products |
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Studio Satisfaction |
Structured feedback from development teams and studio leaders |
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Business Development Contribution |
Involvement in demos, proposals, and RFPs tied to internal products, as well as promoting SIA online (social media) and in person (networking, events, volunteering) |
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Visibility |
Participation in IBM TechXchange communities, internal presentations, and SIA brand contribution |
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Work Model |
100% on-site, five days per week |
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Location |
Downtown Montréal — 1000 de la Gauchetière Ouest, 39th floor (direct access to the Metro and REM) |
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Reporting Line |
Not attached to any studio — a cross-cutting role within the LAB |
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Employment Type |
Full-time, permanent |
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Travel |
Occasional, based on studio and client needs |
Submit your CV along with a focused cover letter of one page maximum.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
SIA Innovations · siainnovations.com · careers@siainnovations.com · Montréal, QC
