Principal Architect – Digital Banking & Credit Union Transformation
$166,400,000–$228,800,000 year
On-siteVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Job Summary
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 Design Authority and architecture governance across Aequilibrium, client, and vendor teams. Guide engineering teams from architecture through implementation, testing, migration, and go-live. Develop reusable reference architectures, migration playbooks, and accelerators to strengthen the digital banking practice. Translate complex technical decisions into clear business implications for CIOs and CTOs. Mentor solution architects, technical leads, and engineers. Establish integration and API strategies connecting digital platforms with core banking, payments, CRM, and identity systems.
Required Qualifications
- 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 comfortably 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
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with VeriPark, VeriChannel and VeriLink
- Experience with Central 1 Forge and the Canadian credit union ecosystem
- Experience migrating from Forge or another legacy digital banking platform to VeriPark
- Experience with Backbase, ebankIT, Temenos, Intellect Design or other major digital banking platforms
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform architecture
- Relationships within the Canadian credit union, digital banking, or fintech ecosystem
- Industry thought leadership, conference speaking, publishing, or participation in banking technology communities
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