Principal, Software Engineering

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): 161,600 - 197,500 Annual bonus

target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to

double

the target (subject to personal and company performance): 20% 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 a Principal, Software Engineering - Policy Administration System (PAS) – Personal Lines.

Our Policy Administration System (PAS) is the transactional heart of Personal Lines at Intact. Every policy issued, changed, and renewed flows through it. At Intact, Canada’s largest provider of property and casualty insurance, that means millions of customers counting on it to be there in good and bad times.

Our PAS is built in-house - a substantial Java platform with an Angular front end, integrated with a broad landscape of insurance systems. We are modernizing this mission-critical platform, and we’re looking for a Principal to lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of that transformation end to end. This is not a maintenance role.

You will own the architecture, de-risk the migration off legacy, and shape how AI, data, and modern engineering practices come together in a system that thousands of colleagues and millions of customers depend on every day.

You will report directly to the Vice-President, Personal Lines, Transformation & Architecture, and join an organization of roughly 370 people. You’ll have the mandate, visibility, and decision authority to match the accountability - and you’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with our Personal Lines value streams, Intact Lab, and our Data & AI teams.

What you'll do here: Architecture, strategy & delivery:

Own the target architecture and the technical roadmap to get there — a scalable, resilient, high-performance PAS, and a credible, de-risked path off legacy. Own the outcome end to end — you set the technical direction and you’re accountable for the delivery, with the authority and support to make the calls that get us there. Integrate PAS with the enterprise through modern APIs and microservices, and establish the CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment that make rapid, high-quality releases the norm.

AI across the policy lifecycle:

Embed AI where it changes the game for customers and underwriters — underwriting, pricing, and recommendations — using approved models, in partnership with Intact Lab and our Data & AI teams. Help define how AI is responsibly integrated into core systems: here, governance is an asset, not a brake — it’s how we earn customer trust.

AI in how we build:

Drive the adoption of AI across the product lifecycle — not just in the coding, but in how the team designs, builds, tests, and ships. Help the engineering organization work faster and better with AI and set the example others follow. Partner with the broader Transformation agenda to bring AI-driven productivity into the PDLC end to end — removing bottlenecks, not just accelerating one step of it.

Trust, Data