Waterstone Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures , Best Workplaces for Women & TIME Magazine’s 2025 list of Canada’s Best Companies . These honours reflect our commitment to fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture where talent thrives and innovation drives us forward. As one of Canada’s leading alternative consumer lenders, we’re passionate about helping everyday Canadians create a brighter future. Help shape the future of our enterprise technology landscape. Reporting to the Vice President, Data & Enterprise Architecture, you’ll combine enterprise architecture leadership with deep solution architecture expertise, helping define our target-state technology architecture while leading the end-to-end architecture for select strategic and complex initiatives. This is a hands‑on architecture role for a strong technologist who can move comfortably between enterprise strategy, solution design and detailed technical conversations with engineers, delivery teams, vendors and technology partners. Translate business strategy and transformation priorities into practical technology roadmaps and architectural decisions across applications, cloud, infrastructure, security, integration, data, AI and automation. Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, and improve scalability, resilience and reuse. Act as a technical expert for complex, strategic and cross-domain architecture decisions, establishing practical guardrails that support delivery and long‑term technology direction. Serve as the Solution Architect for select complex or high-priority initiatives, accountable for end‑to‑end technical solution architecture from concept through implementation. Translate business and functional requirements into secure, scalable,



resilient and supportable solutions spanning applications, cloud, infrastructure, security, integration, data, identity, AI and third‑party technologies. Define key technical decisions, system interactions, integration patterns, deployment approaches and non‑functional requirements. Partner with engineers, technical leads, delivery teams and vendors to ensure solutions can be successfully built, implemented and operated. Lead architecture and design reviews, identifying risks, dependencies, constraints and opportunities for simplification or reuse. Guide trade‑offs involving security, performance, scalability, resilience, maintainability, cost and speed to market. Provide technical leadership to contract Solution Architects supporting major projects or programmes. Guide projects and domain leads in selecting the right integration approach, including API‑led, event‑driven, real‑time, asynchronous and batch‑based patterns. Provide architecture direction for complex integrations involving CRM, contact centre, payments, lending platforms, cloud services, data platforms and third‑party partners. Review integration designs for security, identity, resilience, observability, performance and operational readiness. Provide architecture leadership across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, including cloud, hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. Apply infrastructure architecture expertise across networking, compute, storage,



identity, resilience, observability and disaster recovery. Review and challenge cloud, infrastructure and vendor‑proposed architectures to ensure appropriate security, reliability, performance, scalability, cost and operational supportability. Provide architecture leadership across CRM, contact centre, payments, lending and broader financial services technologies, including customer engagement, payment processing, loan origination, underwriting, decisioning and servicing. Apply a solid understanding of the security, data, integration and regulatory considerations associated with financial services technology. AI and Automation Architecture: Design and lead enterprise AI and automation environments and enabling technologies. Establish scalable architecture patterns for Generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, intelligent automation and workflow technologies. Design secure integration of AI and automation capabilities with enterprise applications, data platforms, APIs and business processes. Establish technical guardrails and guide teams from proof of concept through secure, scalable and production‑ready implementation. Partner with Data, Security, Infrastructure and Application teams on privacy, identity, responsible AI, monitoring, resilience, cost and operational support, while evaluating emerging technologies for enterprise adoption. Actively participate in the Architecture Review Board, AI Council, Enterprise Data Council and other authoritative technology forums. Build alignment across Architecture, Data, AI, Security, Infrastructure, Engineering, Applications and Integration to support sound technology decisions. Demonstrated experience designing end‑to‑end technical solutions

📌 Enterprise Architect (Mississauga)
🏢 goeasy
📍 Mississauga