EQ Bank | Equitable Bank

Senior Director, Technology Integration – Enterprise Architecture

EQ Bank | Equitable Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Provide strategic leadership to accelerate technology integration and platform modernization by enabling teams with clear guardrails, reusable patterns, and automated governance.
  • Operate as an enterprise-wide architecture ‘force multiplier’—empowering domain and platform teams to deliver safely at speed while converging on a cohesive target-state.
  • Serve as the architecture integration leader for M&A, translating deal intent into executable transition states, sequencing, and platform convergence outcomes.
  • Focus on the integration of capabilities into the Bank’s core and digital ecosystem, establishing repeatable integration playbooks, canonical interfaces, and transition states that reduce risk while increasing time-to-value and synergy.
  • Drive measurable outcomes—faster delivery cycles, reduced complexity, TCO and improved resiliency—so the Bank can operate with challenger-bank agility in a regulated environment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline.
  • 10+ years of banking experience and 5–10 years in enterprise architecture, gained within financial services or consulting environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to prototype and operationalize architecture decisions—using 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 Day‑1/Day‑100 and beyond), including platform convergence, data/domain integration, cutover strategy, and decommissioning—ideally 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 multi‑platform ecosystems.
  • Strong leadership presence with the ability to simplify complexity and influence senior decision‑makers.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop architects—building shared standards, improving architectural decision quality, and scaling consistent practices across a federated organization.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to facilitate cross‑functional alignment.
  • Strategic mindset paired with operational awareness.
  • Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, SAFe Architect, or cloud architecture certifications are an asset.
Benefits
  • 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architecturecloud architecturedata analyticsAPIsintegrationsecurityinfrastructuredigital channelscore banking platformsM&A integration architecture
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstrategic mindsetoperational awarenessmentoringinfluencingsimplifying complexitycross-functional alignmentdecision-makingbuilding shared standards
Certifications
TOGAFSAFe Architectcloud architecture certifications