Senior Principal Architect - Originations

Overview

Why GM Financial Technology? GM Financial is set to change the auto finance industry and is leading the path with tech modernization. We have a startup mindset, preserve our small company culture, in a public company environment with financial stability and intense growth. We are data junkies and trust in data and insights to advance our business objectives. We take our goal of zero emission, zero collision, zero congestion and zero friction seriously and aim to lead the GM EV mission to change the world.

We are building global platforms across LATAM, Europe, and China and seek high performing talent to support our growth. GMF is comprised of over 10,000 team members globally. Join our fin‑tech culture within a Blue-Chip company where we are changing how we use technology to support our customers and business.

Job Description

Why GM Financial Technology? GM Financial is set to change the auto finance industry and is leading the path with embarking on tech modernization – we have a startup mindset, preserve our small company culture, in a public company environment with financial stability and intense growth over a decade long history. We are data junkies and trust in data and insights to advance our business objectives.

We maintain a strong focus on zero emission, zero collision, zero congestion and zero friction as part of our leadership in auto finance and GM EV mission.

About the Role: As a technical leader and subject matter expert for the assigned business unit, the Senior Principal will be a key influencer in achieving strategic alignment and delivering business value. This leader will serve as the primary point of contact for IT Architecture in Canada, driving modernization of loan origination platforms and ensuring solution designs align with enterprise architecture principles and the North Star Architecture while enabling GM Financial’s long‑term strategy.

The Senior Principal will work with leaders across GM Financial Canada, Originations, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture to identify high‑impact initiatives that advance modernization goals. This role requires deep expertise in loan origination, banking, and enterprise‑scale solution architecture, acting as a trusted advisor for technical excellence. The person in this role should be energetic, dynamic and innovative, promoting process improvement to enhance productivity and performance.

The Senior Principal is an established figure internally and externally and will represent GM Financial in the broader community as an ambassador. It is important to maintain a strong external network in the Canadian technical and business community.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the modernization of Canada’s loan origination platforms, guiding the transition to future‑state architectures that improve scalability, risk management, automation, and customer experience.
• Serve as the primary architectural authority for all technology initiatives within the Canada domain, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture standards.
• Develop and validate large‑scale solution architectures that span multiple business and technical domains across GM Financial.
• Provide deep subject matter expertise in loan origination systems (LOS), credit decisioning, underwriting workflows, dealer relationship platforms, and related ecosystem technologies.
• Partner with business and technology teams to define target‑state architectures, architectural roadmaps, and domain‑specific technology strategies.
• Drive alignment between Canadian modernization needs and global architecture investments.
• Lead cross‑team architectural discussions and influence product, engineering, and operational decision‑making.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and architectural oversight to technical teams within the Canada domain.

• Collaborate with Domain Architecture peers to ensure enterprise‑wide coherence across capabilities, data flows, integration patterns, and platform modernization.
• Anticipate and resolve architectural risks, dependencies, and design challenges across multiple systems and teams.
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