About the Role
The Enterprise Architect, Data Architecture role will define and evolve Interac’s enterprise data architecture target state, enabling a modern data warehouse and lakehouse ecosystem that improves data trust, discoverability, quality, security, lineage, and speed-to-insight while supporting near-term delivery needs.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise data architecture principles, target-state blueprints, and transition roadmaps for Interac’s data warehouse and lakehouse ecosystem.
- Contribute to the Architecture Strategy Centre of Excellence by stewarding enterprise-wide data architecture direction.
- Establish architecture metrics and guardrails for data quality, data lineage, metadata completeness, ownership, access controls, retention, and standards compliance.
- Identify systemic data risks and partner with leaders to prioritize remediation.
- Lead and participate in architecture reviews, peer assessments, and governance forums.
- Document and socialize data reference architectures, modelling standards, ingestion and integration patterns, lakehouse zones, warehouse marts, semantic layer guidance, and data product lifecycle practices.
Requirements
- Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.
- 5+ years’ experience in enterprise, data, information, and/or solution architecture roles within complex environments.
- Proven experience operating in a federated architecture model.
- Demonstrated experience designing enterprise data architectures where data domains, data products, data models, metadata, lineage, access controls, and ownership are clearly defined and governed.
- Demonstrated ability to assess, quantify, and manage data architecture risk.
- Practical experience with data warehouse and lakehouse architecture patterns.
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
- Strong decision-making and trade-off analysis skills.
- Experience designing scalable, secure, and resilient data platforms across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.
- Strong understanding of how data quality, metadata, lineage, master and reference data, lifecycle state, privacy, and security controls intersect.
- Successful candidates will be required to complete background checks.
Skills
- Data Architecture
- Data Warehouse
- Lakehouse
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Data Lineage
- Metadata Management
- Access Controls
- Data Modeling
- APIs
- Event-driven data flows
- Streaming
- Batch processing
- TOGAF
- CDMP
- DAMA-DMBOK
- AWS
- Azure
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Architecture, data management, and/or cloud certifications such as TOGAF, CDMP, DAMA-DMBOK, AWS, Azure, or equivalent are considered an asset.
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000.00 - $155,000.00
Benefits
- Eligibility for short-term incentive plan
- Generous vacation and wellness days
- Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage
- Market-leading employer-funded RRSP program
- Flexible hybrid work model
- Access to a free and confidential 24/7 employee & family assistance program
- Pregnancy and parental leave top-up
- Charitable donation matching with United Way
About the Company
- Interac connects Canadians through secure digital payments, advanced identity verification and industry-leading fraud protection.
- Founded in 1984, Interac facilitates over 20 million transactions daily.
- Consistently ranked as Canada’s most reputable financial technology brand.
- Interac is deeply embedded in the daily lives of Canadians.
- Interac is shaping the future of digital finance in Canada.
Equal Opportunity
- Interac is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Providing fair and equitable employment opportunities for all individuals, without discrimination based on race, color, ancestry, ethnic origin, place of origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital or family status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- If you require accommodation during any stage of the application or recruitment process, please contact us at humanresources@interac.ca.
