Senior Director, Technology Integration - Enterprise Architecture

Team: Information Technology Central

Location: Toronto

Commitment: Full Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

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.

Let's Talk About You!

• 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.