Hybrid Lead Solution Architect - Strategy & Transformation

Manulife; Regina; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife Lead Solution Architect role in Canada leads technology architecture strategy for Group Benefits, driving modernization, cloud adoption, and platform engineering across enterprise programs. You will guide executives, establish standards, and govern architecture governance with emphasis on resilience, security, and data strategy.

The position requires 15+ years of experience, strong leadership, and expert communication with senior leaders; hybrid work model in a regulated financial

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive technology experience.
• 3+ years in enterprise or principal architecture leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization programs.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, and governance skills.
• Proven ability to drive alignment across large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture vision, roadmaps, and target-state capabilities.
• Drive alignment between business strategy and technology investments.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, modernization, cloud, AI, data, and platform strategies.
• Act as the senior architecture advisor to business and technology executives.
• Establish and govern architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Lead architecture review boards and major design decisions.
• Ensure technology solutions adhere to enterprise principles and security requirements.
• Drive consistency across domains, platforms, and delivery teams.
• Designing for functional and non-functional qualities including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
• Assisting the business in scoping and planning upcoming initiatives and roadmap items
• Participating in producing conceptual, solution, and component-level architectures and artifacts
• Reviewing, advising, and providing feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team
• Lead large-scale transformation initiatives spanning multiple portfolios.
• Guide application modernization, cloud adoption, platform engineering, and resilience programs.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and cost optimization.
• Influence investment prioritization and technology roadmaps.
• Partner with executive leaders, engineering teams, product leaders, risk, security, and operations.
• Build consensus across complex stakeholder groups.
• Present architectural recommendations and business cases to senior leadership.
• Leading a team of solution architects (3-5), business architects (3-5), data architects (1-2) and platform architects (1-2).
• Mentor solution, business, data and platform architects.
• Foster a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and knowledge sharing.
• Champion architecture best practices across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Executive communication

Architecture governance

Leadership

Education

TOGAF or equivalent certification

Job description

Manulife Lead Solution Architect role in Canada leads technology architecture strategy for Group Benefits, driving modernization, cloud adoption, and platform engineering across enterprise programs. You will guide executives, establish standards, and govern architecture governance with emphasis on resilience, security, and data strategy.

The position requires 15+ years of experience, strong leadership, and expert communication with senior leaders; hybrid work model in a regulated financial