Principal Architect (Digital Banking & Credit Union Transformation)

Location: Remote, Canada; candidates must be Canadian-based

Compensation: CAD $80–$110 per hour, depending on experience and expertise.

Company

hirify.global delivers digital banking transformation services and technology solutions for Canadian credit unions, including platform modernization and migration engagements.

What you will do

• 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 API and integration strategies connecting banking platforms with core banking, payments, CRM, identity, fraud, analytics, and other financial-services systems.
• Lead design authority and architecture governance across client, vendor, and internal teams while guiding delivery through implementation, testing, migration, and go-live.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, migration playbooks, integration patterns, and accelerators; contribute to strategic pursuits, workshops, presentations, and industry thought leadership.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technology leadership.
• Significant experience in Canadian credit unions, banking, or financial services.
• Experience leading 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, enterprise integration, and Microsoft Azure architecture.
• Experience leading architecture governance and multidisciplinary delivery teams, with strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with VeriPark, VeriChannel, VeriLink, Central 1 Forge, or the Canadian credit union ecosystem.
• Experience migrating from Forge or another legacy digital banking platform to VeriPark.
• Experience with Backbase, ebankIT, Temenos, Intellect Design, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or Power Platform.
• Relationships within the Canadian credit union, digital banking, or fintech ecosystem.
• Industry thought leadership, conference speaking, publishing, or participation in banking technology communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Contract role with potential for contract-to-hire.
• Opportunity to shape a reusable digital banking architecture practice and strengthen platform modernization expertise.
• Work with credit union clients, technology partners, executives, architects, technical leads, and engineering teams.
• Competitive hourly compensation reflecting experience, digital banking expertise, and leadership capabilities.