Application Architect - Intact Lab

Intact Financial Corporation; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Montreal is looking for an Application Architect to shape the future of their software products. The successful candidate will lead the technology roadmap, mentor teams, and ensure architectural quality in alignment with the company's digital strategies. Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree in IT or Software Engineering, technical leadership experience, and strong knowledge in cloud solutions and application security. Bilingualism in French and English is required. This is a hybrid role.

Qualifications

• 1 to 3 years of experience in an architecture role.
• 5 years of experience in cloud solutions design and delivery.
• Experience with containers and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the technology roadmap.
• Ensure compliance with architectural quality.
• Collaborate with other architects to implement best practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural experience

Cloud solutions design

Application security knowledge

Agile development

Bilingualism (French / English)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology / Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

OpenShift

RESTful APIs

Job description

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

Are you passionate about building and delivering software products? Do you want to have an impact and contribute to the success of our digital strategies? Do you like working with cutting‑edge technologies, are you stimulated by challenges and have a proven experience in software engineering architecture? Come join our team.

We are currently looking for an Application Architect for our Intact Lab who will play a critical role in supporting our growth.

What you’ll do here:

• Carry out a permanent technological watch
• Lead the development of the technology roadmap with the practice of technical leadership
• Ensure consistency with the technological vision and the architectural quality of the lab’s products.
• Ensure compliance with the design and development rules imposed
• Collaborate with other architects in the Lab and the company to define and implement best software engineering practices
• Define and document the architecture of the applications, jointly with the technical leader of the product and taking into account the constraints of the projects.
• Act as a mentor and technical lead with software engineering teams

You are:

• A software craftsman
• Driven by challenges
• A change agent who doesn’t hesitate to challenge the status quo, especially in these times of migration to public clouds
• An excellent popularizer capable of explaining his ideas to various stakeholders
• Organized, proactive and a driver of change
• Comfortable working and promoting an ever‑changing technological environment
• A leader and excellent team player ready to dive back into the code to help his team
• A technical mentor, very active in terms of technological monitoring and ready to share his knowledge in a concrete way through functional proofs of concept
• At ease with the development of architectural designs including both front‑end web components and back‑end services.

What you bring to the table:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology/software engineering or any combination of education and equivalent experience.
• Proven technical leadership and architectural experience in software development.
• 1 to 3 years of experience in an architecture role.
• 5 years of experience designing, executing, and supporting cloud solutions. – AWS, ROSA (OpenShift), etc.
• 5 years of experience designing and delivering distributed systems and applications.
• Good knowledge of application security, its mechanisms and OWASP standards.
• Prior experience in agile development, continuous delivery and DevOps culture.
• Excellent knowledge of Software and Enterprise Design Patterns.
• Good knowledge of containers and orchestrators such as Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of Object Oriented.
• A good knowledge of Reactive Programming, Event driven architecture
• Experience with RESTful projects using JWT, OAuth 2.0.
• Excellent knowledge of RESTFul standards and the OpenAPI specification.
• Good working knowledge of the I.D.E.A.L.S principle and the 12 factor app method
• Concrete experience in automated cloud service creation as well as automated application delivery
• Good knowledge of cloud technologies and development and architecture best practices to deliver on different public clouds
• Bilingualism (French / 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.

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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, Métis 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.