Senior Director, Technology Integration Enterprise Architecture
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Job Summary
Join a Challenger
Being a traditional bank just isnt our thing so we challenge ourselves to get creative in providing innovative banking solutions for Canadians.
How do we get there With a talented team of inquisitive and agile challengers that break through the status quo. So if youre passionate about redefining the future of bankingwhile having funthis could be your next big opportunity.
Our company continues to grow and today we serve more than 780000 customers acrossCanadathrough Equitable BankCanadasChallenger Bank and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Banks wholly-owned subsidiary Concentra Bank supports credit unions acrossCanadathat serve more than six million members. Together we have over$138 billionin combined assets under management and administration with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich peoples customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform () one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes Worlds Best Banks list since 2021.
The Work
The Senior Director provides strategic leadership to accelerate technology integration and platform modernization by enabling teams with clear guardrails reusable patterns and automated governance. Rather than acting solely as a centralized control point this role operates as an enterprise-wide architecture force multiplierempoweringdomainand platform teams to deliver safely at speed while converging on a cohesive role serves as the architecture integration leader for M&A translating deal intent into executable transition states sequencing and platform convergence outcomes.
A critical focus is the integration of capabilities into the Banks core and digital ecosystem establishing repeatable integration playbooks canonical interfaces and transition states that reduce risk while increasing time-to-valueand synergy. The Senior Director drives measurable outcomesfaster delivery cycles reduced complexityTCOand improved resiliencyso the Bank can operate with challenger-bank agility in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain an enterprise capability model and value-stream maps to anchor integration decisionsmapping capabilities to applications data domains and owners; identifying overlaps/gaps; and using this model to prioritize platform convergence sequencing and investment decisions.
- Develop transition states and sequencing plans to guide system consolidation modernization and decommissioning throughout the integration period.
- Establish architectural guardrails standards nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) and design principles that govern crossfunctional decisionmaking.
- Operationalize architecture as code by embedding standards and NFRs into pipelines reference implementations reusable templates and automated checks (e.g. security resilience data controls) enabling self-service delivery at scale with consistent outcomes.
- Lead architecture reviews and manage the architectural risk register to ensure stability and compliance during major migration events.
- Provide architectural oversight for Day1 Day100 and major cutover activities ensuring resilience performance and security requirements are met.
- Drive platform rationalization decisions identifying redundant systems and recommending pathways to reduce complexity and operational cost.
- Collaborate with Technology Retail Banking Data Strategy Cybersecurity Operations Infrastructure and PMO teams to align design choices.
- Present architectural tradeoffs to senior executives with clear business cost risk and timeline implications.
- Ensure all architecture activities support synergy goals operational readiness and longterm scalability.
Driving Transformation and Integration
- Lead enterprisewide architecture integration for core banking digital channels payments risk systems and supporting platforms.
- Govern architecture for system cutovers cloud migrations and infrastructure consolidation.
- Guide the creation of architectural artifacts transition maps and decision records that drive clarity across teams.
- Lead the integration architecture across customer journeys data domains security/IAM and integration patternsdefining canonical API/event contracts transition states and parallel-run / cut
Core Mandates for Success
- Partner closely with senior leaders across Technology Data Infrastructure Cybersecurity Retail Banking and PMO.
- Provide leadership to solution architects technical leads and integration consultants throughout the program
- Mentor and grow a high-performing architecture by coaching on pragmatic frameworks just-enough governance and modern tooling (reference architectures templates decision records) raising overall architecture maturity and delivery throughput.
- Lead the integration operating model for architecture across internal teams integration partners and vendorsdriving decision velocity dependency clarity and shared delivery standards during M&A execution.
Lets Talk About You!
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Architecture or a related discipline.
- 10 years of banking experience and 510 years in enterprise architecture gained within financial services or consulting environments.
- Demonstrated ability to prototype and operationalize architecture decisionsusing spike solutions reference implementations and experimentation to quickly test assumptions quantify trade-offs and inform executive decisions in fast-moving integration programs.
- Proven experience leading M&A integration architecture (pre-close planning through Day1/Day100 and beyond) including platform convergence data/domain integration cutover strategy and decommissioningideally in regulated financial services and/or consulting-led environments.
- Expertise across architecture domains such as cloud data analytics APIs/integration security infrastructure digital channels and core banking platforms.
- Strong understanding of NFRs including reliability performance scalability disaster recovery and security.
- Ability to design and govern complex multiplatform ecosystems.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to simplify complexity and influence senior decisionmakers.
- Demonstrated ability to lead mentor and develop architectsbuilding shared standards improving architectural decision quality and scaling consistent practices across a federated organization.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to facilitate crossfunctional alignment.
- Strategic mindset paired with operational awareness.
- Architecture certifications such as TOGAF SAFe Architect or cloud architecture certifications are an asset.
What we offer For full-time permanent roles
Competitive discretionary bonus
Market leading RRSP match program
Medical dental vision life and disability benefits
Employee Share Purchase Plan
Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one
Generous vacation policy and personal days
Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues
Professional development and 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 2200-25 Ontario Street 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 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 barrier-free 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 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!
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About Company
At Equitable Bank, we specialize in providing branchless financial services that meet the unique needs of all Canadians. Our range of mortgages, savings accounts and investment options are designed to offer the right solutions to match any unique circumstance.
