Platform Lead - Lending

Vancity; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 91,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a strategic Platform Technology Lead to drive innovation and enhance user experience. This role is pivotal in modernizing lending capabilities while ensuring compliance and performance. You will lead a cross-functional team, overseeing the design and implementation of robust technology platforms. If you're passionate about technology and want to make a real impact in a supportive and inclusive environment, this opportunity is for you. Join a team committed to social justice and community empowerment, where your contributions will help shape the future.

Benefits

Flexible vacation allowance

Comprehensive benefits package

Defined benefits pension plan

Additional statutory holidays

Living Wage Employer

Attractive benefit packages

Care days for personal illness

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in platform development and management.
• Understanding of Canadian banking and payments ecosystem.
• Strong technical leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for platform development.
• Lead platform-related projects ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Implement metrics to monitor platform performance and reliability.

Skills

Platform Development

Integration Management

Technical Leadership

Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)

API Development

Microservices Architecture

DevOps Principles

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

About Vancity

Vancity is a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. A relentless commitment to their values has helped them challenge the status quo and break down barriers since day one in 1946. They have bold commitments to make Vancity net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans and are pursuing strategies on Indigenous banking and to improve the financial resilience of their members.

Vancity is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and has been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada. If you’re interested in joining their team of 2,700 diverse individuals and accessing competitive rewards and benefits, all while knowing you are part of a greater movement, then apply today!

About the workplace

We are seeking a strategic and hand-on Platform Technology Lead to oversee the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of our technology platforms within the organization. This role will play a critical part in modernizing our lending capabilities, improving customer experience and ensuring platform scalability, performance and regulatory compliance. This role requires a deep understanding of platform architecture, integration, and scalability to ensure the delivery of robust and efficient platform services. The Platform Tech Lead will work closely with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with business objectives and drive innovation

This is a permanent, full-time role that will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office.

A typical day would involve:

• Platform Strategy: Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for platform development that aligns with business goals and enhances user experience.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the platform team, ensuring best practices in architecture, design, and coding. Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, architects, and product managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Architecture Oversight: Ensure the platform architecture is robust, scalable, and secure. Provide guidance on best practices and technical standards.
• Project Management: Lead platform-related projects, from planning and execution to delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines. Coordinate with stakeholders to define project technical requirements and objectives.
• Performance Monitoring: Implement and maintain metrics to monitor platform performance, reliability, and user engagement. Use data-driven insights to identify improvements.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams (e.g., product, data platforms, retail) to understand needs and ensure platform solutions meet user demands.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers to optimize platform functionality and integrations.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage new tools and processes.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with company policies and industry regulations related to platform usage and data security. Incorporate into the platform roadmap compliance / regulatory items and legacy systems modernization.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field;
• 7+ years of experience in platform development, integration and management, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Understanding of Canadian banking and/or payments ecosystem including the partner landscape.
• Proficiency in the platform full stack
• Understanding of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure), API development, microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of platform architecture and integration technologies.
• Working knowledge of DevOps principles. Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk and Grafana.
• Strong technical leadership abilities, with experience in technical decision-making, road mapping & platform optimization.
• Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams & articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges.
• Strong ability to hold business discussions and help influence business processes based on what the technology supports.

You are:

• Results-oriented: You have a demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders in order to elicit requirements, analyze findings, generate appropriate solutions, and build deliverable s all while securing team's commitment to these solutions.
• Technology savvy: You have education and/or experience supporting technology development/ implementation efforts.
• Analytical: You seek to facilitate data-driven decision making, including “rolling up your sleeves” to clarify requirements, research and ensure quality artifacts are consumable for the team.
• A problem solver: Your skills to diagnose challenges and issues, develop innovative business solutions, and assess risks and opportunities that may affect the business have been put to good use.
• Curious & innovative: You always do your research and analyze it to assess and recommend course of action on industry, political and economic trends, and to identify risks and opportunities that may impact the business unit and or designated area.

We value lived experience, so if you are interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if you feel your skills don't perfectly align with those listed.

The salary range for this role is $91,000 to $136,400 annually. Base pay offered may vary depending on factors such as relevant qualifications, skills, previous experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards package, employees may also be eligible for our annual incentive program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

Posting Deadline: Posted until filled

A career at Vancity is more than just a job, you’re joining a tradition of change-makers who are creating lasting change for our communities. Beyond base pay, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package to ensure our employees are empowered to thrive:

We offer:

• We are the largest private-sectorLiving Wage Employerin Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of theTop Employers in Canada.
• Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.
• New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows
• In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness.
• We have flex credits for our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
• We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined benefits pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] for confidential support. In-person assistance is also available. We will collaborate with you to ensure your needs are met promptly and effectively.

Qualifications Education

Preferred

Bachelors