Principal, Cloud Strategy & Autonomous Enterprise

Location: St. John's North Central

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):
149,
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

Reporting to the VP, Cloud and Platform Engineering, the Principal Advisor is both a visionary and a practitioner, serving as the top technical authority for the Cloud and Platform Engineering portfolio. In this role, you will set the long-term strategy for our multi‑cloud future while remaining a deeply technical, hands‑on builder.
Your core mandate is to be a leader who has the ability to code and build the infrastructure and AI platforms that power an autonomous enterprise. You are accountable for the end-to-end health of our technology—from mainframe to cloud—and are empowered to rationalize, modernize, and automate at scale to drive Intact’s future forward.
What you'll do here:
Strategic Vision & Architecture:
Own the end-to-end infrastructure strategy, target architectures, and multi-year roadmaps aligned with business capabilities, resilience, and cost.
Provide thought leadership on transformation, security, and responsible AI, translating emerging tech into actionable strategy.
Define the technical path for mainframe modernization, data center exit, and workload migration (rehost, replatform, refactor, SaaS)
Hands-On Engineering & Automation:
Lead by doing:
Architect, code, and deliver reference implementations for IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
Champion and build AIOps and agentic AI solutions to eliminate operational toil, enable predictive capacity, and automate remediation.
Evolve our internal developer platform (IDP) with self-service golden paths that enforce security and compliance standards.
Leadership & Influence:
Serve as the primary advisory partner to the VP, presenting clear options and technical investment plans.
Coach directors and senior engineers to elevate decision quality and unblock critical technical challenges.
Engage with executive forums (ARB, PI…