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.

About the role

We're looking for a bilingual Manager, Architecture, to join our growing team!

Your mandate as a Manager of Architecture will be to lead the application and solution architecture team for Intact’s primary insurance contract management platform. Your goal will be to ensure the implementation and evolution of application architecture practices and platform technologies while proactively working to increase the knowledge of your team. With your team, you will own the plateform’s architecture to ensure scalability, conformity and evolution throughout the different releases. Your weapons of choice will be your team, the other enterprise and solution architecture teams, and finally the software development teams who will bring your conclusions to life. Your reward will be the technological transformation of a large platform towards a modern, scalable and efficient architecture that will meet users' needs.

What you'll do here:

• Develop application architecture and associated good practices.

• Develop productive and engaged teams, fostering the development of personal and technical skills, as well as collaboration.

• Collaborate with other managers to ensure that all initiatives are appropriately staffed, balancing the needs of the company with the experience and professional aspirations of each resource.

• Collaborate with enterprise and solution architecture to ensure that the decisions made by application architecture are in line with the company’s directions and vision.

• Ensure that our company standards are met for software engineering, architecture and quality.

• Continually evolve development practices, tools and processes to increase team autonomy and efficiency, and ensure they can meet Intact’s goals.

• Cultivate change and initiate innovation.

• Understand business needs and ensure technology can meet the viability of products.

• Master all the facets of software development, understand how all the components interact and can impact the performance and the quality of delivered products.

• Remain on the lookout for market opportunities and question the status quo.

• Communicate the technology vision to team members and ensure governance.

• Master Agile/Scrum development and ensure that processes and tools are well adapted.

What you bring to the table:

• A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Software Engineering or any equivalent combination of training and experience.

• More than 10 years of experience designing and developing software applications.

• Solid management track record including at least 2 years managing and coordinating senior technical staff and Application Architects.

• Strong experience delivering software engineering products using the Agile/Scrum approach.

• Deep understanding of Web Java, Mobile, etc. application technologies.

• Firm grasp of the different types of software architecture (Web, service-oriented, distributed, event-oriented, etc.).

• Good knowledge of the various frontend and backend frameworks (Java frameworks).

• Experience with application security best practices.

• Passionate about creating software products and about software architecture and technological innovations.

• Creative, curious and ingenious.

• An agent of change, able to question the status quo.

• An excellent communicator, able to explain your ideas to various stakeholders.

• A visionary and have a good understanding of the challenges of the IT world.

• Diplomatic, organized, proactive and a team player.

• A servant leader who knows how to create an open and collaborative environment.

• Comfortable working in a constantly evolving technological environment.

• Bilingualism is mandatory (French and English) - Need to interact on a regular basis with colleagues across the country.

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

#LI-Hybrid

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.