Integration Architect (Hybrid)

TEAM LOCAL is hiring

Built on nearly 80 years of service in local communities, Prospera Credit Union is a community-based, purpose-driven organization that offers a full range of financial products and services. Prospera is one of the largest credit unions in British Columbia, with approximately $9.3 billion in assets and 120,000 members. With 24 branches, Prospera is proud to serve communities throughout the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and Okanagan. It's our vision to help build vibrant, healthy communities, thriving local enterprises and financially empowered people.

The Integration Architect is a technical leader at Prospera and will be responsible for designing and implementing robust integration solutions that align with Prospera's strategic business goals. This role guides the development of integration platforms, ensuring seamless data flow between disparate systems while maintaining high security and compliance standards, collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, translates the requirements into technical specifications, and leads the integration efforts from concept to deployment.

What you'll do:

• System Integration Design: Design and plan how several software applications interact, share data, and collaborate to fulfill business needs. Create a strategic framework that outlines the connections and data flows between systems.
• Technology Selection: Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and platforms for integrating various application considering factors such as scalability, security, and compatibility.
• Data Mapping and Transformation: Lead the capability of Data Mapping within Prospera and identify preferred methods, tools, and processes for data mapping to consistently document data lineage across the organization.
• API Design and Management: As part of the Data Ecosystem Cross functional team, design API's enabling conformance to the reference architectures and work with stakeholders to structure re-useable, modular payloads at the experience, process and system layers in the messaging stack.
• Message Routing and Orchestration: Establish and implement rules for routing messages between systems, ensuring that data flows smoothly.
  Security and Compliance: Address security concerns related to data exchange. Implement authentication, authorization, and encryption mechanisms to protect information according to Prospera's Data Governance policies and standards.
• Scalability and Performance: Optimize integration solutions for scalability and performance and ensure that systems can handle increased data volumes and maintain responsiveness.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor data flows, track performance metrics, and troubleshoot issues. Proactively identify roadblocks and resolve integration-related problems.
• Continuously identify areas for innovation in overall technical ecosystem. Identify technical trends that should be investigated as Proof of concepts for enterprise differentiators.
• Assess new technologies in the market for maturity and capability.
• Participate in the design and development of integration projects required to incorporate new vendors, new process, and data sources into the enterprise.
• Coach, facilitate, and enable strong architectural outcomes across a portfolio of initiatives.
• Collaborate and build relationships with a wide range of people, including stakeholders and executives in both technical and business teams.

What you bring:

• 5+ years' experience involved in architectural design using current best practices in the integration domain.
• 7+ years working in a collaborative team setting contributing and adhering to standards and best practices.
• A demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, services, and technical challenges.
• Experience in documentation of high-level architectures, workflows, and other related artifacts using architectural documentation tools and nomenclature.
• Experience in service-oriented architectures, micro-services, and systems integration.
• Proven knowledge of architectural methodologies and frameworks.
• Experience in creating and maintaining reference architectures and enterprise level data catalogs.
• Experience with data governance and stewardship.
• Experience integrating between SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS platforms using both event and time driven techniques is an asset.
• API/Micro-service enabled ecosystem experience with legacy systems is an asset

Prospera offers a total compensation package of base pay plus incentives that is market competitive and reviewed against the market annually. Starting salary is normally targeted around the middle of the posted salary range, and is determined based on the successful candidate's knowledge, experience and internal equity.

Our Values

Cultivate trusting relationships | Empower and Enable Others | Lead with Curiosity | Embrace Change and Execute with Purpose | Thrive as One Team

What's in it for you?

Inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace: All team members are valued, respected, and heard. We learn from each other's differences, gaining strength through our people and our perspectives.

Training and Support. We set our employees up for success with training and continued support and access to resources throughout employment.

Career Advancement! We are committed to our employee's growth and development and we want to see you soar.

Fun & Camaraderie. We care deeply about our members and our employees and we want the hours you spend with us to be fun, rewarding and sometimes lighthearted. We like to work hard, play hard, have fun and be there for each other.

Show me the money! We offer competitive pay, a personalized benefits program, a generous defined contribution pension plan, and an employee incentive program.

Community Focused. At Prospera, local banking means more, and that means giving back to the communities we live, work and play in. We participate in many community minded activities throughout the year.

Great Place to Work. We are committed to employee engagement and have achieved the Great Place to Work certification 3 years in a row.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are part of everything we do, and we're on a continuous journey to ensure every employee and member feels like they #BelongAtProspera.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.