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Aequilibrium

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51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🥽 AR/VR

Fintech • Banking • AR/VR

Aequilibrium is a company that specializes in digital transformation services, focusing on immersive learning, digital twins, and mobile app development. They work predominantly with banks and credit unions, providing solutions that integrate virtual reality simulations and customized banking platforms to enhance user engagement. Aequilibrium aims to blend physical and digital realities to create remarkable experiences for their clients, leveraging advanced technologies to drive significant digital transformation across various sectors.

📋 Description

• 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 architecture for VeriChannel, VeriLink, Microsoft Azure, and Dynamics 365/Power Platform ecosystems • Establish integration and API strategies connecting digital banking platforms with core banking, payments, CRM, identity, fraud, analytics, and other financial-services systems • Lead Design Authority and architecture governance across Aequilibrium, client, and vendor teams • Translate complex technical decisions into clear business implications for CIOs, CTOs, and other executives • Guide engineering teams from architecture through implementation, testing, migration, and go-live • Champion configuration over customization, platform upgradeability, security by design, and API-first integration • Mentor solution architects, technical leads, and engineers • Develop reusable reference architectures, migration playbooks, integration patterns, and accelerators • Help define Aequilibrium’s point of view on digital banking modernization and platform migration • Participate in strategic pursuits, client workshops, and technical presentations • Build trusted relationships across the Canadian credit union ecosystem and with platform and technology partners • Contribute to thought leadership through articles, webinars, conferences, and industry discussions • Identify emerging opportunities as credit unions modernize legacy platforms, consolidate through mergers, and collaborate through shared technology models • Establish trusted-advisor relationships with credit union clients • Lead architecture for major digital banking transformations • Create reusable migration patterns and architecture assets • Strengthen relationships with digital banking technology partners • Help win additional digital banking transformation engagements • Mentor and elevate the broader AEQ team’s architecture and engineering capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Canadian-based; currently located in Canada • 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 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 • Hands-on experience with VeriPark, VeriChannel, and VeriLink particularly valuable • Experience with Central 1 Forge and the Canadian credit union ecosystem particularly valuable • Experience migrating from Forge or another legacy digital banking platform to VeriPark particularly valuable • Experience with Backbase, ebankIT, Temenos, Intellect Design, or other major digital banking platforms particularly valuable • Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform architecture experience particularly valuable • Relationships within the Canadian credit union, digital banking, or fintech ecosystem particularly valuable • Industry thought leadership, conference speaking, publishing, or participation in banking technology communities particularly valuable • Hands-on experience ensuring AODA/WCAG AA accessibility compliance

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract-to-hire opportunity • Competitive hourly compensation • Opportunity to build reusable expertise, accelerators, and architecture patterns • Thought-leadership opportunities through articles, webinars, conferences, and industry discussions • Mentorship and elevation of architecture and engineering capabilities