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 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 basis to review and approve all project designs, at the Design gate state of the Project lifecycle.
• Understand, advocate and promote the Enterprise Architecture vision and value proposition within the IT and business community.
• Lead and facilitate research and assessment of new approaches and technologies for potential use within the organization.
• Lead and facilitate the creation and evolution of architecture principles to support decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture.
• Drive the Architecture review of all proposed programs as part of the yearly planning process.
• Propose Architecture driven programs that actively achieve the Architecture goals of simplifying complexity, reducing redundancy and duplications, and leveraging the leading edge of technology innovations.
• Consult with project teams to align projects to enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Consult with infrastructure teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.
• Review and ensure the soundness of the proposed solutions of all major projects and its alignment with enterprise architecture.

What you bring to the table:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or business administration, or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Experience in application development and systems architecture
• Proven experience in developing strategies & roadmaps for Enterprise Architecture
• Knowledge of the Insurance, Finance or Fintech Industry
• Ability to build application prototypes using AI tools.
• Technically savvy with a keen interest in keep abreast of different technologies
• Understanding of Architecture Governance and compliance to regulatory requirements like OFSI
• 10+ years in information technology.
• 5+ years in IT strategic planning, enterprise, solution or business architecture.
• 2+ years hand-on experience within Enterprise.
• Business value driven person with positive organization-wide outcome mind.
• A team player and a technical mentor.
• Sharing Intact's values: integrity, respect, customer driven, excellence, and generosity.
• Comfortable working in a constantly evolving technological environment.
• Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices, trends and transformation.
• Experience in defining global enterprise architecture.
• Experience in establishing and chairing IFC architecture forums.
• Experience in providing leadership on technological innovation in an enterprise.
• Experience in working closely with IT PMO.
• Experience in vendor management, contracts and capacity planning in a hyper-growth environment.
• Experience with mergers & acquisitions and the integration of acquired businesses.
• Knowledgeable in IT solutions, trends in IT and experience evaluating/implementing new tools and solutions.
• Experience in the business/system/solution architecture.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent and effective communication, both verbal and written.
• Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals.
• Experience with cloud architecture is an asset.
• Enterprise Architecture certification is an asset.
• Certification in TOGAF considered an asset.
• Familiarity with information management practices.
• Familiarity with the IT application development life cycle.
• 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.

#LI-Hybrid 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.