Enterprise Architect (Data Architecture)

Location: Toronto, Canada; flexible hybrid work model

Salary: CAD 145,000–155,000 annually, plus eligibility for a short-term incentive plan

Company

hirify.global is a Canadian financial technology company providing secure digital payments, identity verification, and fraud protection services.

What you will do

• Define and evolve enterprise data architecture principles, target-state blueprints, and transition roadmaps for data warehouse and lakehouse environments.
• Shape enterprise-wide data architecture direction across data domains, canonical models, integration patterns, semantic standards, and reusable data products.
• Establish metrics and guardrails for data quality, lineage, metadata, ownership, access controls, retention, and standards compliance.
• Identify and prioritize systemic data risks, including duplication, inconsistent definitions, weak lineage, poor quality, unclear ownership, and unmanaged sensitive data.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance forums covering privacy, security, regulatory requirements, data residency, and resiliency.
• Document reference architectures, modelling standards, ingestion and integration patterns, lakehouse zones, warehouse marts, semantic layers, and data product lifecycle practices.

Requirements

• Eligibility to work in Canada for hirify.global Corp. in a full-time capacity
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise, data, information, and/or solution architecture within complex environments.
• Experience operating in a federated architecture model and governing data domains, data products, models, metadata, lineage, access controls, and ownership.
• Practical experience with data warehouse and lakehouse patterns, including ingestion, transformation, curated data layers, semantic modelling, data marts, open table formats, BI, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Experience designing scalable, secure, and resilient data platforms across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, including APIs, event-driven flows, streaming, batch processing, and governed data sharing.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry, with strong decision-making, risk assessment, and trade-off analysis skills.

Nice to have

• TOGAF, CDMP, DAMA-DMBOK, AWS, Azure, or equivalent architecture, data management, or cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model.
• Generous vacation and wellness days.
• Employer-paid benefits and an employer-funded RRSP program.
• 24/7 employee and family assistance program.
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up.
• Charitable donation matching with United Way.

Hiring process

• Successful candidates must complete pre-employment background checks, which may include identity, criminal, credit, employment, education, and social media verification.
• Accommodation is available during the application and recruitment process.