Technical Consultant: Cloud-Native AI & API Architect

Intact Insurance U.S.; Canton (MA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

401(k) with annual contributions up to

Mental health support

Parental leave

Job summary

Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions seeks a Technical Consultant to join the Corporate IT team on a hybrid schedule at Canton, MA; Boston, MA; Farmington, CT; or Raleigh, NC offices. You will guide an autonomous team through SDLC, delivering cloud-native, AI-enabled solutions using Java, RESTful APIs, and modern architectures.

You will own non-functional requirements, mentor junior developers, and ensure secure, scalable, and well-documented code.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Degree from a Technical school or equivalent work experience.
• On the job training is also recognized.
• 9+ years of related experience.
• Significant development experience in the languages used by the company.
• Has application architecture and development experience in the technologies used by the company.
• An intermediate level understanding of the Insurance business.
• Work experience in Property Casualty or Specialty Insurance a plus.
• Experience across the full technology stack, including Java, SQL, and JavaScript, and is expected to design, develop, and support enterprise-grade solutions spanning backend services, APIs, data persistence, and modern web user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a technical lead/consultant helping customers, business analysts, and team members capture, understand and translate business requirements that drive the design of quality technical solutions of the most complex nature; aligning the business and IT strategies while complying with the organization’s architectural standards.
• Develops and presents recommendations towards the design and development of application architecture, business systems and IT solutions that are of the most complex nature across the IT organization.
• Recommends the development of complex designs through the use of new technical solutions not currently in our existing configuration as well as the use of data or system modification within the current system configuration.
• Owns non-functional requirements including performance, resiliency, scalability, security, and operational readiness of delivered solutions.
• Designs and develops scalable, cloud-native, AI-enabled enterprise applications using modern Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and distributed system patterns.
• Acts as a hands‑on technical authority, proactively identifying risks, owning delivery outcomes, and unblocking teams through direct technical contribution.
• Responsible for recommendations towards the component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and buy vs. build recommendations.
• Consults and/or leads the full systems development life cycle and may be responsible for providing estimates, gathering business requirements, designing, coding, testing, implementing and supporting applications software at an advanced level. Their work should be delivered in a timely manner using the agile methodology.
• Collaborates effectively with others in a variety of work settings. This involves helping to educate others within Technical Consultant’s own area of expertise, understanding the issues/concerns of other areas, and working together to solve problems across the IT organization.
• Is identified as a technical expert in multiple technologies used at the company.
• Helps drive the selection of new technical products, services, and solutions.
• Communicates the project status for areas of responsibility effectively across the organization.

Skills

Java

SQL

JavaScript

API design

Cloud-native

Agile/SDLC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Technical school degree or equivalent experience

On-the-job training

Tools

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Java Frameworks

Job description

Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions seeks a Technical Consultant to join the Corporate IT team on a hybrid schedule at Canton, MA; Boston, MA; Farmington, CT; or Raleigh, NC offices. You will guide an autonomous team through SDLC, delivering cloud-native, AI-enabled solutions using Java, RESTful APIs, and modern architectures.

You will own non-functional requirements, mentor junior developers, and ensure secure, scalable, and well-documented code.