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Senior Director, Technology Integration - Enterprise Architecture

EQ Bank
Toronto
•On-site•
Full-time
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Posted 6 months ago
Integration Management Office
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Job Description

The Work
 
The Senior Director provides strategic leadership to accelerate technology integration and platform modernization by enabling teams with clear guardrails, reusable patterns, and automated governance. Rather than acting solely as a centralized control point, this role operates as an enterprise-wide architecture ‘force multiplier’—empowering domain and platform teams to deliver safely at speed while converging on a cohesive target-state. This role serves as the architecture integration leader for M&A, translating deal intent into executable transition states, sequencing, and platform convergence outcomes. 
 
A critical focus is 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. The Senior Director drives measurable outcomes—faster delivery cycles, reduced complexity, TCO and improved resiliency—so the Bank can operate with challenger-bank agility in a regulated environment.  

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain an enterprise capability model and value-stream maps to anchor integration decisions—mapping capabilities to applications, data domains, and owners; identifying overlaps/gaps; and using this model to prioritize platform convergence, sequencing, and investment decisions.
  • Develop transition states and sequencing plans to guide system consolidation, modernization, and decommissioning throughout the integration period.
  • Establish architectural guardrails, standards, non‑functional requirements (NFRs), and design principles that govern cross‑functional decision‑making.
  • Operationalize “architecture as code” by embedding standards and NFRs into pipelines, reference implementations, reusable templates, and automated checks (e.g., security, resilience, data controls), enabling self-service delivery at scale with consistent outcomes.
  • Lead architecture reviews and manage the architectural risk register to ensure stability and compliance during major migration events.
  • Provide architectural oversight for Day‑1, Day‑100, and major cutover activities, ensuring resilience, performance, and security requirements are met.
  • Drive platform rationalization decisions, identifying redundant systems and recommending pathways to reduce complexity and operational cost.
  • Collaborate with Technology, Retail Banking, Data Strategy, Cybersecurity, Operations, Infrastructure, and PMO teams to align design choices.
  • Present architectural trade‑offs to senior executives with clear business, cost, risk, and timeline implications.
  • Ensure all architecture activities support synergy goals, operational readiness, and long‑term scalability.

    • Driving Transformation and Integration

  • Lead enterprise‑wide architecture integration for core banking, digital channels, payments, risk systems, and supporting platforms.
  • Govern architecture for system cutovers, cloud migrations, and infrastructure consolidation.
  • Guide the creation of architectural artifacts, transition maps, and decision records that drive clarity across teams.
  • Lead the integration architecture across customer journeys, data domains, security/IAM, and integration patterns—defining canonical API/event contracts, transition states, and parallel-run / cut

    • Core Mandates for Success

  • Partner closely with senior leaders across Technology, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Retail Banking, and PMO.
  • Provide leadership to solution architects, technical leads, and integration consultants throughout the program
  • Mentor and grow a high-performing architecture by coaching on pragmatic frameworks, “just-enough” governance, and modern tooling (reference architectures, templates, decision records), raising overall architecture maturity and delivery throughput.
  • Lead the integration operating model for architecture across internal teams, integration partners, and vendors—driving decision velocity, dependency clarity, and shared delivery standards during M&A execution.

    • Requirements

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  • 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.

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