Principal Enterprise Architect

Join one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and be part of something extraordinary – welcome to goeasy! At goeasy, our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do, and we’re proud to be recognized for it. We’ve earned prestigious accolades such as Waterstone Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, Canada’s Top Growing Companies, and the TSX30, highlighting us as one of the top performers on the TSX. We’re also honoured to be named a Greater Toronto Top Employer and recognized by Great Place to Work® as having the Best Workplaces for Women & Most Trusted Executive Teams, and included on TIME Magazine’s 2025 list of Canada’s Best Companies. These honours reflect our commitment to fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture where talent thrives and innovation drives us forward.

As one of Canada’s leading alternative consumer lenders, we’re passionate about helping everyday Canadians create a brighter future. Our vision is to provide a path to a better tomorrow, today. We offer a full range of products, including non-prime leasing, unsecured and secured loans, and point-of-sale financing through easyhome, easyfinancial, and LendCare.

If you're seeking an exciting, high-growth environment where your contributions truly matter, we want to hear from you! Join us, and together, let's create a future of financial empowerment.

Help shape the future of our enterprise technology landscape.

We’re looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect who can set enterprise-wide technology direction while staying close to the solutions that bring that strategy to life. Reporting to the Vice President, Data & Enterprise Architecture, you’ll combine enterprise architecture leadership with deep solution architecture expertise, helping define our target-state technology architecture while leading the end-to-end architecture for select strategic and complex initiatives. This is a hands-on architecture role for a strong technologist who can move comfortably between enterprise strategy, solution design and detailed technical conversations with engineers, delivery teams, vendors and technology partners.

What will you be doing?

• Enterprise Architecture:
  • Define and evolve enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and target-state technology direction.
  • Translate business strategy and transformation priorities into practical technology roadmaps and architectural decisions across applications, cloud, infrastructure, security, integration, data, AI and automation.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, and improve scalability, resilience and reuse.
  • Act as a technical expert for complex, strategic and cross-domain architecture decisions, establishing practical guardrails that support delivery and long-term technology direction.
• Solution Architecture:
  • Serve as the Solution Architect for select complex or high-priority initiatives, accountable for end-to-end technical solution architecture from concept through implementation.
  • Translate business and functional requirements into secure, scalable, resilient and supportable solutions spanning applications, cloud, infrastructure, security, integration, data, identity, AI and third-party technologies.
  • Define key technical decisions, system interactions, integration patterns, deployment approaches and non-functional requirements.
  • Partner with engineers, technical leads, delivery teams and vendors to ensure solutions can be successfully built, implemented and operated.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews, identifying risks, dependencies, constraints and opportunities for simplification or reuse.
  • Guide trade-offs involving security, performance, scalability, resilience, maintainability, cost and speed to market.
  • Provide technical leadership to contract Solution Architects supporting major projects or programmes.
• Systems Integration and Integration Architecture:
  • Guide projects and domain leads in selecting the right integration approach, including API-led, event-driven, real-time, asynchronous and batch-based patterns.
  • Provide architecture direction for complex integrations involving CRM, contact centre, payments, lending platforms, cloud services, data platforms and third-party partners.
  • Review integration designs for security, identity, resilience, observability, performance and operational readiness.
  • Partner with Integration leadership and delivery teams to advance modern, scalable and reusable integration capabilities.
• Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Architecture:
  • Provide architecture leadership across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, including cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Apply infrastructure architecture expertise across networking, compute, storage, identity, resilience, observability and disaster recovery.
  • Embed security, privacy and identity considerations into architecture and solution design from the outset.
  • Review and challenge cloud, infrastructure and vendor-proposed architectures to ensure appropriate security, reliability, performance, scalability, cost and operational supportability.
• Financial Services Technology:
  • Provide architecture leadership across CRM, contact centre, payments, lending and broader financial services technologies, including customer engagement, payment processing, loan origination, underwriting, decisioning and servicing.
  • Apply a strong understanding of the security, data, integration and regulatory considerations associated with financial services technology.
  • Develop target-state architectures and multi-year platform roadmaps that modernise legacy technologies, reduce duplication and simplify the enterprise technology landscape.
• AI and Automation Architecture:
  • Design and lead enterprise AI and automation environments and enabling technologies.
  • Establish scalable architecture patterns for Generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, intelligent automation and workflow technologies.
  • Design secure integration of AI and automation capabilities with enterprise applications, data platforms, APIs and business processes.
  • Establish technical guardrails and guide teams from proof of concept through secure, scalable and production-ready implementation.
  • Partner with Data, Security, Infrastructure and Application teams on privacy, identity, responsible AI, monitoring, resilience, cost and operational support, while evaluating emerging technologies for enterprise adoption.
• Technology Governance and Leadership:
  • Serve as an advocate for strong architecture, engineering and technology practices.
  • Actively participate in the Architecture Review Board, AI Council, Enterprise Data Council and other authoritative technology forums.
  • Build alignment across Architecture, Data, AI, Security, Infrastructure, Engineering, Applications and Integration to support sound technology decisions.

What experience do you have?

• 15+ years of progressive technology experience, including 10+ years across Solution, Platform and/or Enterprise Architecture, with significant hands-on Solution Architecture experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing end-to-end technical solutions for large-scale, highly integrated enterprise initiatives, from concept through implementation and production.
• Proven ability to operate at both the Enterprise and Solution Architecture levels, moving between target-state strategy and detailed solution design.
• Strong architecture experience across Microsoft Azure and AWS, including cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with solid security and infrastructure architecture expertise.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, API management, systems integration, event-driven architecture, messaging, middleware, microservices and modern integration patterns.
• Experience with enterprise technologies supporting CRM, contact centres, payments, lending and broader financial services.
• Experience architecting enterprise AI, Generative AI, intelligent automation or related technology environments.
• Good understanding of modern data architecture and how data platforms support operational, analytical, automation and AI workloads.
• Experience leading technology modernisation, large-scale transformation and the evaluation of strategic technologies and vendor architectures.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to Solution Architects, engineers, vendors and implementation partners through expertise and influence.
• Experience in financial services, lending, payments or another highly regulated industry is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and relevant cloud, security or architecture certifications are assets; however, practical technical capability and implementation experience are more important than framework expertise.

We offer a Flexible Work Program that provides you the ability to work three days onsite per week, from our Mississauga office.

Internal Applicants: please apply through the link and provide written endorsement from your current manager.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our team.

Why should you work for goeasy?

In keeping with our mission to create better tomorrows for our employees, each year goeasy commits to continuously enhancing its total rewards. Here are some of the perks we offer:

Financial Benefits:

• RRSP matching and Employee Share Purchase Plan programs.
• Annual bonus that rewards your hard work and dedication.
• Employee discounts on furniture, electronics, and appliances.
• MAT & PAT leave top-up.
• Expand your financial knowledge through engaging Financial Literacy Learning opportunities.

Health and Lifestyle:

• Enjoy company-paid volunteer days to give back to the community.
• Access 24/7 healthcare with Virtual Doctor Appointments.
• Personalize your benefits with a flexible modular benefits package.
• Stay fit and energized with exclusive access to our on-site private gym at our head office.

Employee Perks:

• Fuel your growth with the Tuition Assistance Program.
• Double the impact of your generosity with Company Matched Charitable Donations.
• Internal development training programs and platforms including job-specific training, career coaching, leadership excellence, mentorship, and many others.
• Enjoy a state-of-the-art office space with perks like a games room, a healthy snack program, a fitness studio, free gated parking, and more!

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity Employment:

At goeasy, we believe that we can only be the best when people are able to bring their best selves to work every day. goeasy is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process. Please let the talent acquisition team know if you require an accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire. We thank all interested applicants; however, we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.