Enterprise Architect (Data Architecture)

Location: Toronto, Canada; flexible hybrid work model. Eligibility to work for hirify.global Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity is required.

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

Company

hirify.global provides secure digital payments, identity verification, and fraud protection services that support Canada’s financial ecosystem.

What you will do

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

Requirements

• Must be eligible 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, products, models, metadata, lineage, access controls, and ownership.
• Practical experience with data warehouse and lakehouse patterns, including ingestion, transformation, curated layers, semantic modelling, data marts, open table formats, BI, analytics, and AI consumption.
• 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, trade-off analysis, security, risk, and compliance knowledge.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model supporting work-life balance.
• Generous vacation and wellness days.
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits and an employer-funded RRSP program.
• 24/7 confidential employee and family assistance program.
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up.
• Inclusive, purpose-driven environment focused on digital finance, innovation, and community impact.

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 every stage of the application and recruitment process.