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connectFirst Credit Union

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🛡️ Insurance

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

Insurance • Banking • Finance

connectFirst Credit Union is a Canadian credit union providing retail and business financial services, including chequing and savings accounts, credit cards, mortgages, personal and commercial loans, investment products (GICs, wealth management), and insurance. It operates branch and digital banking channels, serves personal, small business, agri-business, commercial and non-profit clients, and emphasizes community-focused programs and member rewards. The organization highlights customer service, local presence, and financial products aimed at helping members save, borrow, invest and protect their assets.

📋 Description

• Analyze business requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and select appropriate technologies and platforms • Design solution architecture, including software, hardware, and networking components • Guide development teams throughout the project lifecycle and ensure best practices and standards are followed • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet technical and business expectations • Promote and support peer review of team deliverables • Develop consistent, effective documentation adhering to team standards and templates • Review existing systems and develop strategies to improve or further leverage them • Share knowledge with IS members to support adoption of standards and best practices • Develop proofs of concept to demonstrate feasibility of proposed products, methods, or ideas • Maintain awareness of technology inventory assets, identify adaptation and reuse opportunities, research market trends, and make build-versus-buy-versus-repurpose decisions • Bridge business challenges and technology solutions across the enterprise architecture team • Improve cost efficiency, future-proof systems, project outcomes, security, and compliance

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of continuous IT experience • Minimum five years of experience serving as an architect within a specific IT architecture domain • University degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related IT discipline • TOGAF certification or functional proficiency with a similar methodology or framework is required • Experience leading diverse projects addressing business and IT challenges • Modeling experience using common solution description languages, standards, tools, and visual aids • Formal IT methodology practitioner and project management methodology participant • Proven experience designing complex solutions across varied platforms through implementation and operations • Expertise in architecture best practices, architecture development methodologies, domain-specific modeling techniques, and solution documentation • Software application development experience using Agile or Waterfall SDLC approaches and specification-level writing • Systems integration experience in a Service-Oriented Architecture environment using an Enterprise Service Bus and API-based messaging standards • Experience with COTS solutions and custom applications • Ability to use code repositories such as GitHub, TFS, or Azure DevOps • Ability to work within an Agile/Scrum environment • Ability to work in a Test Driven Development environment • Experience with Ovation, Salesforce, OutSystems, Boomi, Databricks, Visual Studio, C#, ASP.Net, ASP.Net Core, jQuery, Power Platform, or Cloud Architecture is an asset • Ability to manage multiple competing projects, time, schedule, and scope • Timely communication and appropriate escalation of issues • Selected candidate must successfully pass a criminal background check, reference check, and credit check

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation including performance-based incentive pay and profit share • Health and wellness benefits • Vacation program • Retirement savings programs • Training & Development Opportunities • Career Advancement Potential • Flexible work options • Meaningful work towards individual and corporate goals • Employee volunteer program and opportunities to give back • Profit sharing • Voting for the board of directors as a credit union member • Access to all financial services provided by the credit union • Accommodations available during every stage of the hiring process upon request