Specialist - Agentic AI & Automation in Risk Management

Intact Financial Corporation; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 94,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work model

Up to 5 extra days off per year

Telemedicine & Wellness account

Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) up

Job summary

Intact Financial Corporation is seeking a role focused on applying AI and automation across Risk Management. You will build AI assistants, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation to support risk teams and enable scalable solutions.

The position reports to the Director of Technology Risk Management and emphasizes end-to-end delivery, reliability, and governance while collaborating with cross-functional partners. This is a hybrid role in Toronto.

Qualifications

• Post secondary degree in data science, AI, computer science, software engineering, analytics, or a related field - is required.
• Proven experience in design, development, deployment, and maintenance of AI or automation solutions used in a business context - is required.
• Proficiency in Python or another relevant programming language; experience with structured and unstructured data, as well as integrating data sources, knowledge repositories, and enterprise platforms - is required.
• Solid knowledge of large language models, AI assistants, agent-based workflows, search-based applications, APIs, and enterprise integrations - is required.
• Ability to deliver end-to-end solutions: requirements analysis, architecture, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, support, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Build a Risk Management-wide portfolio by identifying high-value AI opportunities.
• Develop a shared roadmap balancing enterprise priorities, value, and feasibility.
• Automate evidence collection, document comparison, and risk reporting.

Skills

Data science

Artificial intelligence

Python

Risk management

Communication

Bilingual English/French

Education

Post secondary degree in data science, AI, CS, or related field

Tools

APIs

Enterprise platforms

Knowledge repositories

Data sources integration

AI governance tools

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): 94,200 - 115,200

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance): 12%

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

Help shape how Intact uses AI and automation across Risk Management, creating more capacity for the work that requires professional judgment, effective challenge and meaningful business partnership.

Reporting to the Director, Technology Risk Management, you will build and deploy AI assistants, agentic workflows and practical automation for enterprise, financial, operational and technology risk teams.

As an individual contributor, you will translate shared priorities into reliable, reusable solutions that strengthen Risk Management as a whole.

What you'll do here

Build a Risk Management-wide portfolio

• Partner across Risk Management to identify and prioritize high-value opportunities for AI and automation.
• Develop a shared roadmap that balances enterprise priorities, team-specific needs, value, feasibility, control requirements and ongoing maintenance.
• Simplify processes before automating them and focus investment on sustainable, reusable solutions.

Build, deploy and maintain solutions

• Develop AI assistants and agentic workflows that retrieve information, support analysis and execute authorized tasks through approved enterprise tools.
• Automate activities such as evidence collection, document comparison, assessment preparation, issue follow-up and management reporting.
• Integrate solutions with approved data sources, knowledge repositories and risk management platforms.
• Own the full solution lifecycle, from prototyping and testing to deployment, monitoring, support and continuous improvement.

Make AI reliable, responsible and useful in daily work

• Implement access controls, source traceability, testing, human review and exception handling while preserving independent risk oversight and clear human accountability for judgments and decisions.
• Collaborate with Technology, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Compliance, Data and AI Governance partners.
• Document solutions and establish support practices that a lean team can sustain.
• Train colleagues and help them adopt new tools with confidence.
• Measure results through time saved, improved quality, faster turnaround and sustained adoption.

What you bring to the table

• Post secondary degree in data science, artificial intelligence, computer science, software engineering, analytics, or a related field - is required.
• Proven experience in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of AI or automation solutions used in a business context - is required.
• Proficiency in Python or another relevant programming language; experience with structured and unstructured data, as well as with integrating data sources, knowledge repositories, and enterprise platforms - is required.
• Solid knowledge of large language models, AI assistants, agent-based workflows, search-based applications, APIs, and enterprise integrations - is required.
• Ability to deliver end-to-end solutions: requirements analysis, architecture, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, support, and continuous improvement.
• Experience in evaluating the reliability of AI results and in implementing controls related to security, data protection, traceability, human oversight, and exception handling.
• Ability to design reliable, reusable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical teams, risk professionals, and high-level stakeholders.
• Independence, curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, risk management, or a regulated industry is a plus.
• Bilingualism (English/French) – For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

What success looks like

In your first year, you will have established a Risk Management-wide roadmap and delivered reliable solutions embedded in daily work, with measurable gains in capacity, quality and turnaround time and clear ownership, documentation and support.

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Il s'agit d'un nouveau rôle au sein de notre équipe en pleine 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.