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Definity is the parent company to some of Canada's most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada's leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We embrace a culture that's collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.
We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the work and team. Bring your true self and be part of our journey. It's better here.
Join our team as a Senior Integration Technical Architect --- a key technical leadership role with hands-on responsibilities in designing, delivering, and governing enterprise API, event, and microservices-based integration solutions. This role shapes the integration architecture vision, enables modern, scalable integration capabilities, and supports innovation across our digital ecosystem, including GenAI-driven use cases. You will work closely with enterprise architects, platform engineers, and domain teams to design and deliver robust, secure, and intelligent integration solutions.
What You'll Do
- Architect and deliver modern integration solutions using Apigee (API management), Confluent Kafka (event streaming), and container-based microservices on GCP and AWS.
- Lead the integration of GenAI capabilities into workflows by designing APIs and streaming pipelines that connect AI models with enterprise systems and data.
- Build and evolve reusable integration patterns, templates, and frameworks to accelerate delivery and promote platform adoption.
- Define, socialize, and enforce enterprise-wide standards and best practices for APIs, events, and microservices, supporting secure and scalable architecture.
- Contribute to platform capabilities including API lifecycle automation, observability, developer self-service, and CI/CD to improve developer experience and operations.
- Drive proof-of-concepts and critical implementations to validate architecture decisions and enable teams through hands-on leadership.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies --- including GenAI, low-code tools, and event-driven platforms --- to inform platform strategy.
- Partner with architects, stakeholders, and product owners to align solutions with business objectives and principles.
- Provide architecture leadership during delivery --- shape backlogs, assess feasibility, estimate complexity, and ensure standards are met.
- Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, and performant, supporting observability, automation, and fault tolerance.
What You Bring
Technical Expertise
- Experience designing and delivering API management, microservices, event-driven architecture, and streaming platforms.
- Experience with Apigee, Confluent Kafka, GCP, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Python, and automation tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Knowledge of event and messaging platforms such as Kafka Connect, Pub/Sub, WebSockets.
Integration Governance
- Experience defining and enforcing standards, reusable patterns, and best practices for scalable architecture.
Agile and DevOps
- Success working in Agile environments using Scrum or SAFe.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with tools like Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, and testing frameworks.
Security
- Understanding of OAuth2, mTLS, JWT, and API security practices.
- Experience with identity and access management platforms such as ForgeRock.
Analytical Skills
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to perform impact analysis and risk assessments across interconnected systems.
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business narratives.
- Leadership mindset with a passion for mentoring teams.
Role ID - 224
Interested but don't meet every requirement? We encourage you to apply! We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives to help us improve insurance. Inclusion, diversity, and equity are essential to our success.
