Senior Software Designer - Lead AI Microservices (Hybrid)

Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc; Magog; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid environment

Competitive retirement savings plan

Employee share purchase plan

EFAP (Employee and Family Assistance)

Vacation, wellness & personal dev days

Ergonomic furniture program

Performance bonus

Discounts on iA products

Job summary

iA Financial Group is looking for a Senior Software Designer to lead the design and evolution of high-performing software across distributed architectures and microservices. You will provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and collaborate with architects to translate strategy into concrete REST API integrations.

You will steer AI-enabled solutions, ensure security best practices, and drive DevOps and observability maturity while coordinating with multiple internal teams and legacy systems to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or another relevant field.
• Over 10 years in IT with at least 5 years in software solution design.
• Strong leadership and ability to communicate complex issues across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design high-performing, innovative and reusable software solutions in distributed/microservices architectures.
• Contribute to design, integration and deployment of AI capabilities with specialists.
• Translate architectural direction into concrete software solutions, esp. REST APIs.
• Act as a technical leader, maintain design integrity, oversee implementation, mentor teams.
• Collaborate with multiple teams on interdependent systems, including legacy ones.
• Evolve practices/tools/methods and stay current with technology trends.
• Ensure standards compliance and maintain up-to-date technical documentation.
• Support configuration, deployment, observability and operationalization of solutions.
• Promote DevOps, observability, security and AI-assisted development.

Skills

Distributed architecture

REST API design

Agile/Lean

DevOps

Observability & logging

Security (NIST/ISO27001)

Data management & analytics

SQL/NoSQL/Snowflake

Azure & related tools

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot

Git

Postman

SQL Server Management Studio

Dynatrace

Kafka

Kubernetes

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Camunda

Job description

iA Financial Group is looking for a Senior Software Designer to lead the design and evolution of high-performing software across distributed architectures and microservices. You will provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and collaborate with architects to translate strategy into concrete REST API integrations.

You will steer AI-enabled solutions, ensure security best practices, and drive DevOps and observability maturity while coordinating with multiple internal teams and legacy systems to