Join a Challenger
Being a traditional bank just isnt our thing. We are big believers in innovating the banking experience because we believe Canadians deserve better options and we challenge ourselves and our teams to creatively transform whats possible in banking. Our team is made up of inquisitive and agile minds that find smarter ways of doing things. If youre not afraid of taking on big challenges and redefining the future you belong with us. Youll get to work with people who will encourage you to reach new heights. We like to keep things fun ask questions and learn together.
We are a big (and growing! family. Overall we serve more than 670000 people acrossCanadathrough Equitable BankCanadasChallenger Bank and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Banks whollyowned subsidiary Concentra Bank supports credit unions acrossCanadathat serve more than six million members. Together we have over$125 billionin combined assets under management and administration with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich peoples lives. Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform eqbank one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes Worlds Best Banks list since 2021.
The EQ Bank Engineering Team
EQ Bank Engineering Team has been advocating building bestinclass branchless digital banking experience to advance millions of Canadians personal financial goals since its inception. The team believes that the more agile and seamless banking features we build the more wealth opportunities Canadians can unlock. Engineers in EQ Bank adopt the agile mindset to continually create test deploy improve and scale banking digital services. Our partnership with Wise Nesto Ratehub Flinks Borrowell and Neo Financial has given us topnotch banking consumer insights and therefore these insights allow the Engineering Team to build a differentiated and unique digital banking platform. The team is on an 18to24month transformational journey and ready to expand more banking features by growing doubledigit team size to tripledigit. Join us to lead engineers on a transformational journey!
Purpose of Job
The Technical Lead Software Engineering Digital Banking Core Banking is part of the team that will enable EQ Banks Challenger Bank aspiration: A banking platform to put the power in customers hands. Every feature we build is designed to give our customers an edge over their money to maximize their potential. You will use cloudnative technologies and productcentric agile methodologies to manage multiple crossfunctional pods dedicated to launching new products features and ongoing business value for our digital bank apps.
Reporting to the Associate Director Engineering you will help drive forwards the evolution our core banking platform to support our modern APIdriven microservices architecture using foundational Azure Cloud DevOps API and PaaS services to deliver dozens of production releases per month. You will lead a crossfunctional team through all areas of Agile Software Development and will partner closely with Digital Banking Business and Product teams to prioritize and deliver outcome driven solutions. This will include enabling MVP approaches and faster learning towards our customer goals and objectives.
The Technical Lead Engineering will focus on ensuring feasibility of sprint stories and tasks code quality and sprint velocity. The incumbent will work closely with the team members to ensure the pod is following agile development principles including backlog grooming and estimation sprint planning code reviews and test automation. The Technical Lead will also be responsible for issue tracking unblocking engineers and driving forward sprint progress.
As the T24 Application Specialist Digital Banking youll be expected to collaborate with our Products and existing pods by providing technical support in the form of assessment/analysis integration development and troubleshoot for our T24 platformassignment types.
Accountability
The T24 Application Specialist Digital Banking works under direct management and their work is reviewed by the Associate Director Core Banking.
The incumbent should be internally motivated and constantly strive to find innovative ways to enhance capability methodology and practice; always be looking to maximize business value by balancing strategic technology plans with speed of delivery.
T24 system under your care is a core banking system with multimillion $ value and the recipient of serious funding investments ongoing by Equitable. The projects that you will be involved in delivering will involve significant dollar values so you will use your experience to make sure everything app related is managed with great diligence and that Temenos vendor gaps are addressed in a way that does not impeded progress of Equitables objectives or day to day work. This role has been specifically created to enable us to deliver with pace and clarity.
Job Complexities / Thinking Challenges
The position requires the ability to work with a wide range of computer technologies and thus a good understanding of each of our technology elements is important. T24 Application Specialist Digital Banking is expected to be able to perform initial analysis on technical problems apply fixes based on their technical knowledge and exercise their judgement to escalate the issue to the Manager of IT and/or the vendor appropriately and promptly.
The objectives provided for project tasks and other technical tasks will be clear and exact but will not be down to stepbystep instructions. The T24 Application Specialist Digital Banking is expected to be able to complete the objectives with selfinitiative or go back to the requestor to get more details.
The incumbent is expected to understand and observe IT policies and procedures and work under the direction of the Manager of IT to ensure that they are followed by all staff. The incumbent is expected to think independently understand the business needs critically review the business requirements and make design and implementation decisions.
You will ensure work and projects are completed promptly and thoroughly. Support the vision of the business needs for success now and in the future. Set your own goals and hold yourself self and others accountable for achieving goals aligned with current and future business strategy.
The incumbent will directly contribute to assessing business needs designing solutions and implementing secure and scalable solutions to serve the Banks customers and grow the business. They must assist in the identification of opportunities and develop recommendations to minimize risk improve service capability and reduce costs. They will be required to evaluate problems within their domain to provide expert advice and recommendations for course of action to senior leadership.
What we offer For fulltime permanent roles
Competitive discretionary bonus
Market leading RRSP match program
Medical dental vision life and disability benefits
Employee Share Purchase Plan
Maternity/Parental topup while you care for your little one
Generous vacation policy and personal days
Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues
Annual professional development allowance and a comprehensive Career Development program
A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience
The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from Equitable Banks additional office space located at 351 King Street East Toronto ON.
Equitable Bank is deeply committed to inclusion. Our organization is stronger and our employees thrive when we honour and celebrate everyones diverse experiences and perspectives. In tandem with that commitment we support and encourage our staff to grow not just in their career path but personally as well.
We commit to providing a barrierfree recruitment process and work environment for all applicants. Please let us know of any accommodations needed so that you can bring your best self to the application process and beyond.All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check and credit check to qualify for hire. While we appreciate your interest in applying an Equitable recruiter will only contact leading candidates whose skills and qualifications closely match the requirements of the position.
We cant wait to get to know you!