Principal Product Architect

Job Title: Principal Product Architect
Salary Range: $160K - $165K
Location: Toronto, Canada

Job Description:
GTT's client, a leading Canadian financial technology company, is on a mission to revolutionize the payments infrastructure within Canada. As part of a major technology modernization initiative, they are seeking a Principal Product Architect to work on several key FinTech products focused on payment processing, financial transactions, fraud detection and real-time transaction management.

This role is integral to a transformative program designed to implement the ISO 20022 messaging standard, enhancing payment data richness while fortifying fraud mitigation capabilities through a centralized fraud utility service. Operating in a fast-paced Agile environment, this position requires a strategic leader who can seamlessly align product, technology, and business objectives to deliver mission-critical projects.

Opportunity Overview:

• Be at the forefront of innovation, leading cutting-edge FinTech projects that redefine the future of payments.
• Join a dynamic organization scaling from 800 to over 1,100 employees within 24 months, offering unparalleled career growth.
• Competitive base salary, industry-leading bonus structure, and a comprehensive benefits package.

• Partnering with platform leadership and owners on backlog population, curation, prioritization, and release planning across multiple squads.
• Managing architectural requirements in platform backlogs.
• Technical debt tracking and remediation planning.
• Conducting well-architected reviews and mapping findings to remediations in the backlog.
• Contribution to, and leadership within, working groups tasked with continuous, iterative cross-PL product convergence and platform standardization.
• Curating/incubating/prototyping/delivering new potentially shared capabilities in partnership with your aligned PL team and others in the architecture practice.
• Prototyping/POC patterns, creating docs/cookbooks, and executable code.
• Product-to-platform dependency tracking.
• Providing executive & program advice and consulting.
• Governing architectural and decision quality.

• Direct involvement in similar work in the past.
• Ability to act as a mentor for others within the architecture practice.