Integration Technical Lead

Vancity • New Westminster, BC

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Vancity is a member-owned credit union founded on principles of inclusion and social justice, committed to becoming net-zero by 2040 and pursuing strategies in Indigenous banking and financial resilience. Recognized as a Top Employer and the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada, Vancity is modernizing its financial systems with secure, real-time, and scalable solutions. This Full-time, Permanent Integration Technical Lead role is crucial for driving the design, development, and optimization of secure, real-time backend systems that connect to Vancity's financial platforms at scale. The position combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic guidance to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions, integrating enterprise platforms, APIs, and third-party services. The role reports directly to the Senior Manager, Integration Platform, and offers a hybrid work arrangement, with expectations for on-site presence for events and business demands when needed. While the head office is in Vancouver, candidates from BC and Ontario are welcome to apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience designing and leading high-scale, high-availability backend/API systems.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and influence architectural decisions for integration solutions.
• Proven experience leading development team, technical design and delivery for complex integration initiatives across multiple domains. Deep expertise in API design, backend services, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with event‑driven architectures, including messaging, streaming, and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud‑native and serverless architectures, preferably on Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of security, authentication, authorization, and data protection for APIs and integration platforms.
• Experience working in regulated or complex enterprise environments (financial services experience is a strong asset).
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading or overseeing migrations from MuleSoft to Azure Integration Services, including defining migration strategy, target architectures, and transition plans across teams.
• Experience defining and enforcing performance tuning, monitoring, and observability standards across Azure integration platforms, including proactive reliability and cost‑optimization strategies.
• Experience operating in hybrid integration environments, supporting multiple platforms (e.g., MuleSoft and Azure) during phased modernization or transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to financial services, banking, or other regulated industries, with an understanding of compliance, auditability, and risk considerations in integration design.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and implementation of enterprise‑grade integration solutions, with a strong emphasis on real‑time APIs, backend services, and event‑driven architectures
• Ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards and best practices; API & Backend Expertise Act as the technical authority for API‑first and backend integration design
• Ensuring seamless End‑to‑End Integration Design, reliable data flow across internal platforms, core systems, and external partners, supporting both synchronous (API) and asynchronous (event/messaging) integrations.
• Evolving integration standards, reference architectures, and reusable components to drive consistency, quality, and delivery velocity across teams; Standards, Reusability & Governance Develop
• Executing an integration platform roadmap focused on modernization, performance, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance
• Leading and mentoring cross‑functional engineering teams through the full integration lifecycle from discovery and design through delivery, release, and operational support
• Overseeing cross‑functional collaboration partnership closely with Product, Data, Operations, Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure integration solutions meet both technical and business requirements
• Overseeing vendor‑delivered solutions and external integrations, ensuring architectural alignment, quality, and long‑term maintainability
• Monitoring, documentation, supportability, and incident management to ensure high availability and regulatory compliance in production environments

Benefits

• Living Wage Employer: We’re the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and consistently ranked among Canada’s Top Employers.
• Customizable Benefits: Permanent employees receive flexible benefit packages that can be tailored annually to meet evolving needs.
• Generous Vacation: New employees start with 3-4 weeks of vacation per year, with additional days earned over time.
• Extra Stat Holidays: In addition to BC’s 11 statutory holidays, we offer 2 extra days, plus care days for personal or family illness.
• Immediate Health Coverage: Health and dental benefits begin on your hire date, with three levels of coverage to choose from.
• Defined Benefit Pension: Our retirement plan provides a guaranteed income for life, recognizing that retirement looks different for everyone.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees