Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in positive times and be resilient in bad times. 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. Flexible wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more Annual bonus the target (subject to personal and company performance): 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. We’re looking for a Principal, Software Engineering to join our Shared Services team This role reports directly to the Vice-President, Software Engineering Shared Services. Its portfolio typically includes content and document services, customer and reference data, decision-support technology, product configuration, integration services, distributor platforms, and a mix of modern and legacy platforms. The organization acts as a central point of engagement for shared demand and is evolving these capabilities into secure, resilient, independently deployable services with clear ownership, roadmaps, service boundaries, and measurable outcomes. The Principal, Software Engineering is the most senior hands-on technical leader in the Shared Technology Services organization.



The role works across platforms, products, and teams to solve complex business and engineering problems, set technology direction, and improve the productivity and effectiveness of the broader engineering community. Technical credibility comes from sustained, current contribution: writing production code, pairing with engineers, reviewing designs and code, resolving high-risk problems, and proving new approaches in working software. This role combines deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, business acumen, and mentorship. It is distinct from an architecture governance role: the Principal remains engaged from technical strategy and design through implementation, production readiness, and continuous improvement. The role helps shared technology services operate as dependable enterprise platforms rather than a collection of project-specific solutions. Hands-On Engineering: Pair directly with engineers to resolve high-ambiguity challenges across modern cloud services, APIs, integration platforms, commercial products, and legacy systems. Lead by example during production incidents, performance investigations, security remediation, and complex defect resolution. Build working slices and proofs of concept to validate technical direction before teams scale an approach. Develop reusable frameworks, APIs, automation, and engineering toolkits that improve consistency and accelerate delivery across product teams.



Technical Leadership Through Doing, Not Decree: Translate enterprise needs into practical platform boundaries, technical decisions, and sequenced modernization plans. Advance strategic priorities such as independent release cadences, API-led integration, pragmatic cloud modernization, legacy-platform renewal, continuous improvement, and faster paths to production. Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior technology leaders, architects, and engineering leaders on high-risk or novel decisions. Quality, Standards & Thought Leadership: Define, model, and reinforce software engineering practices across design, development, testing, continuous delivery, observability, production support, security, and applicable regulatory requirements. Improve platform resilience, scalability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership through rationalization, standardization, technical-debt reduction, and lifecycle planning. Champion secure delivery practices, quality engineering, automation, and responsible AI adoption in the software development lifecycle, with appropriate human validation and governance. Act as a force multiplier across Shared Technology Services by pairing, conducting deep technical reviews, co-designing solutions, and helping teams remove blockers. Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders toward Principal-level scope, judgement, and enterprise impact. Build technical communities and shared practices across content services, data platforms, decision-support capabilities, product tooling, integration services, digital channels, and legacy-technology domains. Represent the organization in internal technical forums and contribute to the broader engineering community. Be ac

📌 Principal, Software Engineering (Montreal)
🏢 Intact Financial
📍 Montreal