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About the role

  • Data Architect modernizing Univeris’s Canadian wealth-management platform through microservices, cloud data, and governance. Leading secure, compliant pipelines, analytics, and master data strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical authority on data strategy, modeling, and governance
  • Act as the bridge between Enterprise Architecture and engineering execution
  • Define architectural patterns and assist with their application
  • Lead the design for decoupling data from monolithic systems into domain-specific services
  • Define data synchronization and consistency patterns for distributed environments
  • Architect and oversee data pipelines and replication into domain-service and analytics environments
  • Design for advanced BI dashboards, RAG systems, and AI model training
  • Establish DataOps best practices with Platform Engineers
  • Champion a Data-as-a-Product approach for ingestion and transformation pipelines
  • Oversee the evolution of data pipeline and analytics environments for external integrations and client-facing analytics
  • Design cloud cost-efficiency strategies, including partitioning, indexing, and lifecycle policies
  • Define Master Data Management strategies, identify Systems of Record, and govern data flows
  • Embed CIRO, CSA, GDPR, data sovereignty, and Privacy by Design requirements into data models
  • Co-lead the Univeris Data Governance Framework and facilitate the Data Governance Office
  • Operationalize metadata management, master data, data security, and data quality policies
  • Establish automated data quality rules and SLAs for Critical Data Elements such as KYC and account information
  • Design retention and disposal mechanisms for audit and regulatory compliance
  • Guide engineering teams on data access patterns and database performance tuning for OLTP and batch workloads
  • Set the technology and security vision for a scalable, product-aligned data architecture roadmap
  • Report to the Director of Enterprise Architecture

Requirements

  • Minimum 7–10 years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, or a related senior technical role
  • Proven experience in Wealth Management, Fintech, or Banking is highly desirable
  • Understanding of the regulatory landscape (CIRO/IIROC, MFDA, GDPR), KYC, Systems of Record (SoR), and PII protection
  • Demonstrated success implementing or managing a Data Governance program
  • Experience guiding organizations through Monolith-to-Microservices decomposition, including distributed data management
  • Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server, OLTP optimization, and T-SQL
  • Proficiency in PostgreSQL
  • Familiarity with Google BigQuery or similar cloud data warehouses
  • Advanced conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling skills for relational and NoSQL paradigms
  • Experience with domain-driven service architectures and distributed data consistency patterns
  • Experience designing data pipelines and integration patterns, including CDC, Event-Driven Architecture, and API-based access
  • Experience with ELT tools such as Dagster, Airbyte, and dbt
  • Familiarity with batch orchestration tools such as Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Dataflow is highly desirable
  • Familiarity with Google Cloud data platforms, including Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, BigQuery, and Dataproc
  • Understanding of Java and .NET database interactions through Hibernate/JPA and Entity Framework
  • Proficiency with data cataloging tools, data quality suites, and metadata management platforms
  • Required ability to translate complex technical data concepts into business value
  • Nice-to-have: AI/ML data layers, Vector Databases, RAG patterns, feature stores, Azure or GCP data architecture certifications, modern BI tools, DAMA-DMBOK, and BIAN standardized data models

Benefits

  • Full-time, permanent employment
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Office accommodation for persons with disabilities during the application process

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$130,000 - CA$150,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AzureBigQueryCloudEntity FrameworkGoogle Cloud PlatformHibernateJavaMicroservicesMS SQL ServerNoSQLPostgresSpringSQL.NET

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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