Architecture Practice Lead - R152675 Senior Solution Architect - Architecture Strategy Team

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

Located in downtown Montreal, we are a rapidly growing team of people who are passionate about innovation and leading-edge technologies. We focus on exploiting data to innovate and transform the insurance sector to make life easier for our customers.

We are hiring an Architecture Practice Lead to evolve a scalable architecture practice and governance model and provide strategic oversight for the end-to-end design of AI and data products. You will play a pivotal role in empowering teams and scaling AI capabilities to build a best-in-class AI-driven architecture practice.

What you'll do here: 

• Lead and evolve a lean, fit-for-purpose architecture practice and governance model across multiple solution architecture teams supporting end-to-end AI and Data products designs.

• Ensure architecture practices align with enterprise strategy, standards, and cross-portfolio initiatives.

• Establish best practices for documenting, publishing, and maintaining architecture artefacts (ex. blueprints, patterns, strategies, technology choice rationale).

• Define the AI strategy and roadmap to accelerate the overall architecture practice (ex. agent-based automated reviews, artifact generation, architecture auditing) and ensure adoption.

• Promote, manage and curate reusable architecture patterns and decision records to accelerate consistent, resilient, compliant delivery.

• Lead weekly peer and structured design reviews to validate functional and non-functional requirements (ex. performance, scalability, security/privacy, cost, usability).

• Define and report architecture KPIs/scorecards, ensuring traceability from principles to implemented solutions (ex. cycle time, reuse, technical debt, reference architecture adherence).

What you bring to the table: 

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent experience).

• 15+ years software development experience applying cloud, security, and DevOps/MLOps practices. 

• 10+ years as Solution and/or Application Architect defining target architectures and implementation strategies for complex AI and data initiatives (ex. transition states, viewpoints, patterns, decisions, TCO, NFRs). 

• Strong knowledge of AI, data product and data engineering lifecycles (ex. anonymization, observability, model training/serving architectures, API design, etc.). 

• Experience designing with modern platforms at scale (ex. AWS/GCP, Databricks, Snowflake). 

• Experience designing generative AI and / or agentic solutions – an asset.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills to facilitate decisions and drive consensus.

• Excellent communicator.

• Bilingual (French and English): Need to interact on a regular basis with an English-speaking clientele and colleagues across the country. 

• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

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Il s'agit d'un nouveau rôle au sein de notre équipe en plein croissance | This role is a new member of our growing 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.