Security Advisor PAM Specialist

Location: Downtown Montreal North

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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):
118,
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 are seeking a  Senior PAM Specialist  with deep hands-on expertise in IDIRA (formerly Cyber Ark) to lead the   design and architecture   of our PAM program and to build advanced integrations, including   custom CPM plugins  ,   PSM connectors   for   MFA-enabled applications  , and forward-leaning capabilities such as   Agentic AI vaulting   and JIT (Just-in-time) implementation.

What you'll do here:
Own solution architecture for IDIRA Privileged Cloud including tenant design, environment segregation (prod/non-prod), network connectivity patterns, identity federation/SSO, and operational hardening
Define onboarding standards for privileged accounts, safes, platforms, rotation policies, session controls, approvals, and audit evidence
Establish reusable reference architectures for common target types (Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, network devices, cloud consoles, SaaS admin portals)
Ensure key risk metrics/indicators are developed and implemented to systematically measure and report information-related risks
Develop and maintain   custom CPM plugins  for systems and applications not supported out-of-the-box
Engineer rotation, verification, and reconciliation logic with robust error handling, logging, and supportability
Create standardized development practices (code reviews, versioning, testing harnesses, release process) for CPM plugin lifecycle
Design and build   custom PSM connectors  for:
Web applications (including complex flows),Thick clients / legacy applications and Administrative tools requiring step-up authentication
Engineer solutions for   MFA-enabled apps , balancing automation and security (e.g., brokered sessions, step-up patterns, conditional access alignment, approved MFA handling approaches)
Provide technical guidance to app teams on requirements to enable…