Senior Enterprise Architect - Finance

intactfc; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 128,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Annual bonus up to 15%

Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Pension with guaranteed income forlife

Job summary

Intact is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Finance to lead the evolution of the enterprise technology landscape, aligning business strategy with technology investments for long-term transformation.

The role defines architecture principles, target-state roadmaps, and strategic direction across domains including business, data, cloud, security, and infrastructure. Collaboration with leaders is essential to identify opportunities and guide modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong strategic thinking and excellent communication skills.
• Experience shaping enterprise technology landscapes across multiple domains (business, data, security, cloud).
• Ability to influence across the organization and guide complex transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to creation and improvement of enterprise architecture practices, governance and compliance.
• Define and maintain governance standards and policies.
• Develop roadmaps and target-state architectures across domains (business, data, integration, cloud).
• Lead risk and cost analyses, including build vs. buy recommendations.
• Capture current state architecture and define future state vision for each domain.
• Work with business and IT leaders to ensure project designs align with approved architecture.

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.

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 an Enterprise Architect - Finance to join our growing team!

This role will shape and guide the evolution of our enterprise technology landscape, aligning business strategy, customer needs, and technology investments to enable long-term transformation. The successful candidate will define and communicate enterprise architecture principles, target-state roadmaps, and strategic technology direction across business, application, data, integration, cloud, security, and infrastructure domains.

This is a highly collaborative role that requires strong strategic thinking, excellent communication skills, and a genuine interest in staying close to technology and emerging trends. The Enterprise Architect will work with business leaders, delivery teams, and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities, address complex architecture challenges, and proactively drive modernization and transformation initiatives. Candidates should be comfortable influencing across the organization, balancing strategic objectives with practical implementation considerations, and helping teams make informed technology decisions.

What you’ll do here

• Contribute to the creation and improvement of the enterprise architecture practices, processes, governance and compliance.
• Establishes overall direction and strategic initiatives for a Global Enterprise Architecture guided by the overall business and IT strategy.
• Define and maintain governance and compliance standards and policies.
• Use AI to build prototypes and explore different options
• Execute based on of the Enterprise Architecture processes.
• Create, update and maintain architecture models, roadmaps and strategies.
• Lead risk and cost analysis including build vs. buy strategies and recommendations.
• Lead analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Contribute to the definition and evolution of global IT architecture based on long-term business strategy considering the diversity of Intact activities, the need for compliance to information Security requirements, the long-term business plan scenarios, the obsolescence of mission-critical applications and the evolution of IT solutions offerings from various sources.
• Capture current state Architecture and establish future state Architecture vision for each domain, supporting the business and IT strategy and vision.
• Develop roadmaps for each domain to achieve this future state.
• Actively participate in all strategic programs and guide its design, in line with the architecture principles.
• Work with the functional leadership to review all project implementation to ensure that it met the original design that was approved in the Architecture described through assets such as architecture decisions, high-level architecture designs, details architecture designs.
• Serve as an internal spokesperson for Enterprise Architecture on significant matters.
• Develop roadmaps for each domain to achieve this future state.
• Utilize this roadmap as the b