Enterprise Data Architect: Lakehouse & Governance Leader

Interac Corp.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 145,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & wellness days

Benefits coverage

RRSP program

Hybrid work model

Employee assistance program

Parental leave top-up

Charitable matching

Job summary

Interac Corp. is seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on Data Architecture to define and evolve our modern data warehouse and lakehouse target state.

You will drive trust, discoverability, quality, security, and speed-to-insight across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, balancing governance with delivery. You will lead architecture reviews, establish standards for data domains, lineage, and semantic models, and partner with security, risk, privacy, and product teams to enable scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise/data/solution architecture within complex environments.
• Experience in federated architecture balancing enterprise stewardship with delivery.
• Proven ability to define and govern data domains, data products, models, metadata, lineage and ownership.
• Experience with data warehouse and lakehouse patterns including ingestion, transformation, semantic layers, and data marts.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Interac’s data architecture target state for warehouse and lakehouse ecosystems.
• Contribute to Governance & Strategy through Center of Excellence oversight and reusable data products.
• Establish architecture metrics for data quality, lineage, ownership, access controls and compliance.
• Identify and remediate data risks like duplication, unclear definitions, and weak lineage.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance forums ensuring privacy, security, and regulatory alignment.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data architecture

Federated architecture

Data governance

Security & compliance

Cloud & on-premises

APIs, streaming & batch

Data quality & lineage

Decision making & trade-offs

AI readiness & analytics

Tools

TOGAF

CDMP

DAMA-DMBOK

AWS

Azure

Job description

Interac Corp. is seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on Data Architecture to define and evolve our modern data warehouse and lakehouse target state.

You will drive trust, discoverability, quality, security, and speed-to-insight across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, balancing governance with delivery. You will lead architecture reviews, establish standards for data domains, lineage, and semantic models, and partner with security, risk, privacy, and product teams to enable scalable