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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Architect - Digital Banking & Credit Union Transformation - **Company:** After School Matters, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $166,400.0 - $228,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, Event Driven Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Api Design, Temenos, Microservices - **Published:** August 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://aequilibrium.applytojob.com/apply/ZKNKgjL3XN/Principal-Architect-Digital-Banking-Credit-Union-Transformation-Canada?source=GS ## About the Role * 12+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technology leadership. * Significant experience within Canadian credit unions, banking, or financial services. * Proven leadership of 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, and enterprise integration. * Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience. * Ability to move comfortably between executive strategy and detailed technical discussions with engineering teams. * Demonstrated experience leading architecture governance and multidisciplinary delivery teams. * Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills. Particularly Valuable Experience * Hands-on experience with VeriPark, VeriChannel and VeriLink. * Experience with Central 1 Forge and the Canadian credit union ecosystem. * Experience migrating from Forge or another legacy digital banking platform to VeriPark. * Experience with Backbase, ebankIT, Temenos, Intellect Design or other major digital banking platforms. * Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform architecture. * Relationships within the Canadian credit union, digital banking, or fintech ecosystem. * Industry thought leadership, conference speaking, publishing, or participation in banking technology communities. ## Description * 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 integration and API strategies that connect digital banking platforms with core banking, payments, CRM, identity, fraud, analytics, and other financial-services systems. * Lead Design Authority and architecture governance across Aequilibrium, client and vendor teams. * Translate complex technical decisions into clear business implications for CIOs, CTOs and other executives. * Guide engineering teams from architecture through implementation, testing, migration and go-live. * Champion configuration over customization, platform upgradeability, security by design and API-first integration. * Mentor solution architects, technical leads and engineers. Help Build Our Digital Banking Practice Beyond individual projects, you will help shape Aequilibrium's digital banking architecture capability. You will: * Develop reusable reference architectures, migration playbooks, integration patterns and accelerators. * Help define Aequilibrium's point of view on digital banking modernization and platform migration. * Participate in strategic pursuits, client workshops and technical presentations. * Build trusted relationships across the Canadian credit union ecosystem and with platform and technology partners. * Contribute to thought leadership through articles, webinars, conferences, and industry discussions. * Help identify emerging opportunities as credit unions modernize legacy platforms, consolidate through mergers, and collaborate through shared technology models., * Established yourself as a trusted architecture advisor to Aequilibrium's credit union clients. * Successfully led architecture for one or more major digital banking transformations. * Created reusable migration patterns and architecture assets that accelerate future implementations. * Strengthened relationships with our digital banking technology partners. * Helped Aequilibrium win additional digital banking transformation engagements. * Mentored and elevated the architecture and engineering capabilities of the broader AEQ team. ## Related Videos - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Microservices: how to get started with Spring Boot and Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/242-microservices-how-to-get-started-with-spring-boot-and-kubernetes) - [API Design - Getting Started](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/33-api-design-getting-started) - [Enterprise-Cloud-Native - Fast-Paced Development & Deployment in a Highly Secure Banking Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/671-enterprise-cloud-native-fast-paced-development-deployment-in-a-highly-secure-banking-environment) - [Cloud Chaos and Microservices Mayhem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/104-cloud-chaos-and-microservices-mayhem) - [Rest API Antipatterns](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100208-rest-api-antipatterns) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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