Director, Architect - Investment Management/Fund Services

IGM Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 163,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental coverage

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

IGM Financial Inc. is seeking a Director, Architect to set architecture direction for Investment Management and Fund Services. You will define standards, roadmaps, and guardrails enabling delivery of high‑performance financial systems across portfolios.

Lead cross‑initiative governance, align technology strategy with business priorities, and mentor teams while managing complex data and integrations with external vendors.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture for large financial services portfolios.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Define domain standards and target-state designs for complex platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture direction aligned to enterprise standards and business priorities.
• Govern domain standards, patterns and reference architectures for buy-side apps.
• Evolve the Domain Target Architecture and multi-year roadmaps.
• Resolve cross-solution architectural issues with risk-focused trade-offs.
• Coach others on architectural principles without direct people management.
• Identify and remediate technical debt; drive modernization.
• Design data-centric solutions with auditable data lineage and governance.
• Contribute to architecture chapters for knowledge sharing.

Skills

Governance & standards

Stakeholder influence

Architectural roadmap

End-to-end capital markets

Data architecture

Jira/Confluence/Kanban

Cloud data platforms

Vendor collaboration

Tools

MuleSoft

SQL Server

Oracle

Job description

Requisition ID14186-Posted08/06/2026- Location (2) -Canada- Province of Job Posting (2) - Career Site (2)

IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.

Founded in 1926, IG Wealth Management is a key part of IGM's business model, providing comprehensive wealth management services to Canadian financial advisors and their clients.

With a vision to inspire financial confidence, IG Wealth Management is recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top 100 Employers, and Best Diversity Employers, aiming to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals.

Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive environment. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues! Our Values: Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.

Overall, Job Purpose

The Director, Architect sets architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services Pod and operates within the Investment Excellence Portfolio.

The role defines standards and patterns, guides target-state roadmaps and resolves cross-initiative and cross-solution architectural complexity (dependencies, integration, sequencing, and technical debt) to enable delivery through clear standards and guardrails. Translates enterprise standards into actionable guidance for modern, high-performance financial systems.

Key Accountabilities

• Set architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services pod to ensure alignment to enterprise standards, technology strategy, and business priorities.
• Define and govern domain standards, patterns, and reference architectures and designs for building resilient, scalable, and secure buy‑side applications (including technology guardrails).
• Define and evolve the Domain Target Architecture and target‑state roadmap focusing on modernizing platforms for portfolio analytics, fund services, and data management and aligning sequencing and technology investments to multi‑year priorities.
• Resolve complex cross‑solution architectural issues (low latency data integration, system interoperability and dependencies between front, middle, and back‑office platforms) and drive pragmatic decisions on trade‑offs and risk.
• Guide and coach others, ensuring consistent application of architectural principles focused on secure high‑performance engineering and quality expectations without direct people management.
• Identify architectural risk and technical debt and sponsor remediation and modernization plans from legacy systems to modern, cloud‑native solutions.
• Lead the design of data‑centric solutions, ensuring auditable data lineage and robust governance for all financial calculations, trading decisions, and ledger adjustments.
• Participate in architecture chapter activities (e.g., standards, patterns, knowledge sharing, and peer reviews) to strengthen practice consistency and capability maturity

Qualifications and Experience

• Extensive experience leading architecture across complex, enterprise‑scale financial services portfolios (solution and/or domain).
• Strong capability in governance, standards, target‑state design, integration, and roadmap definition.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes across multiple teams without direct line authority.
• Skilled in facilitating trade‑offs and risk decisions while balancing strategic coherence with delivery pragmatism.
• Architectural understanding of the end‑to‑end investment lifecycle, from front‑office (portfolio construction, quantitative modeling, order management) and middle‑office (risk analytics, compliance) to back‑office (NAV calculation, fund accounting).
• Strong knowledge of Wealth Management/Capital Markets and the Financial Services industry.
• Experience with end‑to‑end technical solutions and business processes to support Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Institutional SMAs.
• Knowledge of diverse asset classes and their data structures, including public global equities, fixed income, derivatives, and private markets.
• Previous experience working with Global Asset Managers and Market vendors such as CIBCM, BNY, Morningstar, Bloomberg, FactSet etc and the data associated with these systems and solutions.
• Previous experience with Accounting Book of Record and Investment Book of Record solutions and awareness of the technology stacks Experience delivering capabilities involving packaged / SaaS solutions.
• Awareness of integration platforms including MuleSoft and/or others.
• Awareness of the technology stack used in capital markets, investment and/or wealth management.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise data architecture, including relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and cloud data platforms like Google BigQuery or Snowflake.
• Experience designing high‑performance analytics systems, with an awareness of parallel computing techniques (e.g., using NumPy, Pandas, multi‑threading, NVIDIA CUDA for large‑scale data processing)
• Fluent working in Jira, Confluence, Kanban and Sprint Boards
• Familiarity with leveraging AI agentic solutions (OpenClaw, AgentSH, etc.), MCP servers and prompt context optimization

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $162,500- $197,000, which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short‑term incentive, health and well‑being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.

COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION

competitive base salary, performance‑weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE

competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short‑term & long‑term disability plans.

RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS

voluntary Defined Contribution Pension Plan

INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee‑led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).

IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

IG is an accessible employer committed to providing a barrier‑free recruitment experience. If you require an accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.

Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.

We thank all applicants for their interest in IG Wealth Management; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.