Vice-president- Cloud, Infrastructure - Montréal, Canada - Intact

Intact

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

From coast-to-coast, our inspiring colleagues are at the heart of what we do best: helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

With our team, you'll bring this purpose to life every day by living our Values, being open to change, and pursuing your goals.

In return, we'll give you countless opportunities to learn and grow, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts - the best the industry has to offer.

You'll be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Here, you can help shape the future of insurance, win as a team, and grow with us.

About the role

We are looking for a Vice-President - Cloud, Infrastructure & Transformation to support and enable our technology teams, employees, and customers across Canada.

In this role you will be responsible for the organizations private and public infrastructure (compute, storage & network) You will lead the strategy development and investment to support our technology and cloud transformation - supporting our goal of being the most widely distributed, secure and reliable platforms in the industry.

You will lead over 250 technologists which support over 18,000 employees, 25,000 brokers and over 3 million Canadians who engage with our platforms on a day-to-day basis.

As one of our critical technology leaders, you will:

Lead a team of over 250 people ensuring the reliability and availability of key infrastructure, overseeing our Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) and private data centres
Own the strategy and development of our cloud strategy enabling DevOps and selfservice capabilities for thousands of software engineers and data scientists
Be a champion for world class engineering practices in building highperformance, secure, and reliable systems
Manage and optimize large budgets and investments continually assessing optimization and rationalization opportunities with a strong view on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Implement automation across the team, for internal and customer facing platforms such as self healing environments or actions from monitoring to automating delivery
Be an advocate for continuous improvement, engaging internal and external partners to deliver the best technology outcomes
Build an engaged. healthy, collaborative, and inclusive team of highly skilled technical consultants and engineers
Foster strong relationships and ties with other IT teams and leaders be a proactive partner to enable and improve productivity and satisfaction with our platforms and tools
Ensure the observability and compliance of all infrastructure as well as the effective management of vulnerabilities ensuring proper governance, security control, identity, and access management
Lead and partner with CSIO on ongoing threat assessment, maintain operational risk and compliance controls provide regular reporting to the enterprise risk management committee, IFC board of directors and regulators
Proactively anticipate issues and difficult situations and take the necessary steps to resolve them

What you bring to the table:

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or another relevant field
Minimum 15 years of experience managing large technical teams in an agile/scrum environment
Proven leadership over major transformation and technology projects at large institutions
Experience managing private and hybrid cloud environments including AWS, Azure
Understanding of architecture and agile development methodologies
Demonstrated ability to lead, recruit, engage and develop worldclass technology groups
Experience in operations, infrastructure, database, and middleware management
Experience managing major transformation, multiple projects, and operations at the same time
Experience managing large budgets (+$50M)

Skills and Abilities:

Teamwork and collaboration an inclusive, influential, and inspiring leadership style that allows to rally people around common goals.
Proven experience in managing crossfunctional projects and transformation programs. Flexibility in adapting to a rapidly changing environment to work with others in a professional and effective way
High degree of emotional intelligence & selfawareness proven ability to lead through change, collaborating and building shared accountability and trust among large, diverse teams
Experience in leading large change management programs, to drive culture change and employee engagement. Advanced interpersonal, consulting, and coaching skills
Deep experience in reading both the internal and external environment. Extensive experience in aligning and prioritizing resources with organizational business and IT plan
Natural collaborator and builder that inspires teamwork, trust and resilience
Solid business acumen, curiosity, and an impressive track record of delivering results
High energy, selfstarting professional