Senior Solution Architect - Digital

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

128,300 - 156,800

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

15%

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Solution Architect - Digital to join our growing team! This role is centered on solution architecture and of backend services, APIs, databases, and integrations that power web and mobile applications.. The successful candidate will design and evolve backend enablement services and integrations with external domains, platforms and service providers. The role will also contribute to current and future architecture challenges, including high availability architectures, security improvements, and the eventual migration of workloads to AWS. Candidates should be comfortable working across a varied scope of architecture concerns, including solution, application, integration, cloud and DevSecOps architecture.

What you'll do here:

• As a central player within the project and product teams, facilitate solution definition within the company.
• Participate in product selection when a new product or technology is required.
• Participate in the development of standard & patterns definition with architects.
• Facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
• Help the enterprise architect define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Contribute to the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from the future to the current.
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.
• Liaise with the business and your teams to review solutions.
• Participate in the development of roadmaps & strategies.
• Make sure the goals of the business are aligned with the appropriate solutions and that we are making an impact and adding value for our organization.
• Define and document the application architectures, jointly with application architects, the product tech lead and considering the demands of the projects.
• Act as a technical mentor among the development teams.
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Assist in the development to define business vision and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business constituents, EA team members, project teams and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.
• Prior experience in agile development, continuous delivery and DevOps culture.
• Concrete experience in automated cloud service creation.

 

What you bring to the table:

• University degree in information technology, software engineering or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge & architecture experience in:
  • Software architecture (micro / macro / monolithic services, APIs, RESTful, SaaS).
  • event-driven architecture, (Kafka, Apache Fink).
  • Cloud Architecture (AWS, Google, Azure).
  • Authentication, OAuth, Kubernetes, SaaS, CI/CD, Git. and OWASP standards
  • Digital (Online solutions and Mobile applications).
  • Marketing technologies (email, SMS, Push messaging, CDP, analytics).
• Excellent knowledge of Software and Enterprise Design Patterns..
• Insurance experience would be a strong asset.
• Previous experiences either as a tech lead, content authority, solution or application architect.
• Demonstrated experience with modelling languages & techniques.
• Can quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Can understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Strong technical background (platforms, languages, protocols, frameworks, open source, etc.).
• Experience with architecture frameworks (TOGAF) & architecture certifications a plus.
• A team player and a technical mentor - willing to learn and collaborate with many groups of strong professionals.
• Understands or willing to learn about our different lines of business (digital, marketing, policy, billing, claims, sales, self-serve, telematics, etc.).
• Open and transparent - can communicate with the business, telecom, infrastructure, security, audit and software engineering.
• Driven by challenges and results.
• Organized, proactive and a catalyst for change.
• Knowledge on security best practices and understand the impacts it can have on a business.
• Comfortable working in a constantly evolving technological environment.
• Comfortable speaking with all levels of the organization and different audiences.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

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Ce poste jouera un rôle essentiel au sein de notre équipe. | This position will fill an essential role in our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.