Senior Director, Technology Integration - Enterprise Architecture

Join Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank, as a Senior Director, Technology Integration - Enterprise Architecture. This role provides strategic leadership to accelerate technology integration and platform modernization, enabling teams to deliver safely at speed while converging on a cohesive target-state. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of banking experience and 5-10 years in enterprise architecture, with expertise in cloud, data analytics, APIs/integration, security, infrastructure, digital channels, and core banking platforms.

Requirements

• Build and maintain an enterprise capability model and value-stream maps to anchor integration decisions
• Develop transition states and sequencing plans to guide system consolidation, modernization, and decommissioning
• Establish architectural guardrails, standards, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and design principles
• Operationalize 'architecture as code' by embedding standards and NFRs into pipelines and automated checks
• Lead architecture reviews and manage the architectural risk register
• Provide architectural oversight for major migration events
• Drive platform rationalization decisions
• Collaborate with Technology, Retail Banking, Data Strategy, Cybersecurity, Operations, Infrastructure, and PMO teams
• Present architectural trade-offs to senior executives
• Ensure all architecture activities support synergy goals, operational readiness, and long-term scalability

Benefits

• Competitive discretionary bonus
• Market leading RRSP match program
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Maternity/Parental top-up
• Generous vacation policy and personal days
• Virtual events to connect with colleagues
• Professional development and Career Development program