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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 through architecture, 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 • Define Aequilibrium's point of view on digital banking modernization and platform migration • Participate in strategic pursuits, client workshops, and technical presentations • Build 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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 is particularly valuable • Experience with Central 1 Forge and the Canadian credit union ecosystem is particularly valuable • Experience migrating from Forge or another legacy digital banking platform to VeriPark is particularly valuable • Experience with Backbase, ebankIT, Temenos, Intellect Design, or other major digital banking platforms is particularly valuable • Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform architecture experience is particularly valuable • Relationships within the Canadian credit union, digital banking, or fintech ecosystem are particularly valuable • Industry thought leadership, conference speaking, publishing, or participation in banking technology communities is particularly valuable • Candidates are asked whether they are currently located in Canada or USA • Candidates must provide a valid LinkedIn profile link

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive rate of CAD $80–$110/hour • Contract-to-hire opportunity • Opportunity to contribute to thought leadership through articles, webinars, conferences, and industry discussions