Lead Solution Architect

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Lead Solution Architect to join Manulife’s Global Wealth and Asset Management Enterprise Architecture team.

This role advances GWAM's Cross-Enterprise Solution architecture vision by creating firm-wide guidance for capability development. You will collaborate with business, product, and technology partners to translate long-term goals into designs promoting reuse and convergence. Specifically, you will focus on defining and enhancing middle and back-office applications in Retirement for end-user solutions.

Join our Global Wealth and Asset Management team at Manulife, where we believe the truth lies in the numbers and it’s time to change the investment game. We've surpassed $1 trillion in assets under management across diverse public and private asset classes. Operating globally in North America, Asia, and Europe, we serve a wide range of clients, including institutional, retail, retirement, and wealth sectors.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to craft architecture that enables business and technology vision.

• Designing for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.

• Assisting the business in the scoping and planning of upcoming initiatives and roadmap items

• Participating in or leading in producing conceptual, solution, and component-level architectures and associated artifacts.

• Reviewing, advising, and providing feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team

• Business Process modeling and developing data driven solutions

• Pragmatic modernization and leading the end to end solution design and architecture for key company initiatives.

• Developing reference architecture and reference implementation patterns

• Mentoring and growing other technologists within the firm

• Contributing to or leading definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive and cross-enterprise thinking to become the norm.

• Helping to develop new and revising governance processes to ensure alignment of a diverse set of technology projects with the enterprise target state vision.

• Presenting architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making

• Connecting your business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Manulife’s platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers.

How will you create impact?

The ideal Lead Solution Architect is a proactive self-starter who excels at connecting people and technology to solve complex problems. You will develop high-level architecture plans integrating multiple technologies and functional areas across the organization. This role offers the chance to join a dynamic team focused on a multi-year platform transformation, directly impacting the company's direction, customers, and industry.

What motivates you? 

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit. 

• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes. 

• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together. 

• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters. 

• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up. 

• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone. 

 
What we are looking for 

• A strong software engineering and/or architecture background is required with ability to work in an Agile environment.

• 5 to 10 years of experience in leading, guiding or overseeing enterprise architecture, with a proven track record of shaping strategic direction and envisioning the future.

• Extensive experience and ability to understand diverse business domains, develop architectures that meet current and future needs, and evaluate new technologies in line with the latest industry trends.

• Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, GoF, SOA, Event sourcing, etc.).

• Experience with data and application integration patterns (Domain-Driven, APIs, messaging, streaming, sync/async).

• Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security and privacy).

• Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.

• Knowledge of the enterprise technology space: languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends.

• Good judgment and the able to handle high pressure situations, able to devise, develop and apply innovative technology to solutions that would benefit our clients.

• Refined presentation and communication skills and expertise interfacing and communicating effectively with both engineers and executives.

What can we offer you? 

• A competitive salary and benefits packages. 

• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills. 

• A focus on growing your career path with us. 

• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance. 

• Professional development and leadership opportunities. 

Our commitment to you 

• Values-first culture 
  We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. 

• Boundless opportunity 
  We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. 

• Continuous innovation 
  We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. 

• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 
  We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. 

• Championing Corporate Citizenship 
  We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact. 

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].

CAN, Ontario - Full Time Remote

Remote

Salary range is expected to be between

$107,730.00 CAD - $200,070.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact [email protected] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.