Principal Architect – Digital Banking, Credit Union Transformation

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About the role

  • Principal Architect leading digital banking modernization and Forge-to-VeriPark migrations for Canadian credit unions. Advising executives and guiding multidisciplinary architecture and engineering teams at Aequilibrium.

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture and technical leadership for complex digital banking transformations, including Forge-to-VeriPark migrations
  • Assess current-state environments and define target-state and transition architectures across digital banking, core banking, integration, cloud, data, identity, security, and third-party systems
  • Lead architecture for VeriChannel, VeriLink, Microsoft Azure, and Dynamics 365/Power Platform ecosystems
  • Establish integration and API strategies connecting digital banking platforms with core banking, payments, CRM, identity, fraud, analytics, and other financial-services systems
  • Lead Design Authority and architecture governance across Aequilibrium, client, and vendor teams
  • Translate complex technical decisions into clear business implications for CIOs, CTOs, and other executives
  • Guide engineering teams from architecture through implementation, testing, migration, and go-live
  • Champion configuration over customization, platform upgradeability, security by design, and API-first integration
  • Mentor solution architects, technical leads, and engineers
  • Develop reusable reference architectures, migration playbooks, integration patterns, and accelerators
  • Help define Aequilibrium’s point of view on digital banking modernization and platform migration
  • Participate in strategic pursuits, client workshops, and technical presentations
  • Build trusted relationships across the Canadian credit union ecosystem and with platform and technology partners
  • Contribute to thought leadership through articles, webinars, conferences, and industry discussions
  • Identify emerging opportunities as credit unions modernize legacy platforms, consolidate through mergers, and collaborate through shared technology models
  • Establish trusted-advisor relationships with credit union clients
  • Lead architecture for major digital banking transformations
  • Create reusable migration patterns and architecture assets
  • Strengthen relationships with digital banking technology partners
  • Help win additional digital banking transformation engagements
  • Mentor and elevate the broader AEQ team’s architecture and engineering capabilities

Requirements

  • Canadian-based; currently located in Canada
  • 12+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technology leadership
  • Significant experience within Canadian credit unions, banking, or financial services
  • Proven leadership of at least one major digital banking modernization, platform migration, or comparable enterprise transformation from strategy through implementation
  • Strong understanding of digital banking architecture, core banking integration, payments, identity, security, and member-facing digital channels
  • Deep expertise in APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration
  • Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience
  • Ability to move between executive strategy and detailed technical discussions with engineering teams
  • Demonstrated experience leading architecture governance and multidisciplinary delivery teams
  • Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills
  • Hands-on experience with VeriPark, VeriChannel, and VeriLink particularly valuable
  • Experience with Central 1 Forge and the Canadian credit union ecosystem particularly valuable
  • Experience migrating from Forge or another legacy digital banking platform to VeriPark particularly valuable
  • Experience with Backbase, ebankIT, Temenos, Intellect Design, or other major digital banking platforms particularly valuable
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform architecture experience particularly valuable
  • Relationships within the Canadian credit union, digital banking, or fintech ecosystem particularly valuable
  • Industry thought leadership, conference speaking, publishing, or participation in banking technology communities particularly valuable
  • Hands-on experience ensuring AODA/WCAG AA accessibility compliance

Benefits

  • Contract-to-hire opportunity
  • Competitive hourly compensation
  • Opportunity to build reusable expertise, accelerators, and architecture patterns
  • Thought-leadership opportunities through articles, webinars, conferences, and industry discussions
  • Mentorship and elevation of architecture and engineering capabilities

Job title

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$80 - CA$110 per hour

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AzureCloudMicroservices

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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