Lead Global Solution Architect - Wealth & Asset Mgmt

Manulife Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental benefits

Pension

Job summary

Manulife Financial in Toronto is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to join the GWAM Enterprise Architecture team. You will define end-to-end solution architectures that enable global-scale capabilities for institutional and general accounts investment management, translating business needs into scalable, secure designs.

You will collaborate with business, product, data, and technology partners across regions to drive platform transformation, governance, and architecture standards,

Qualifications

• Proven ability to own solution architecture and influence strategic technology direction and future-state vision.
• Strong ability to understand diverse business domains and design architectures that address current and emerging business needs across a broad stakeholder group.
• Expert knowledge and hands-on experience in applying industry-recognized architecture frameworks and methodologies to develop solution architectures.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate business needs into practical, scalable, and secure solution architectures.
• Own the end-to-end development and maintenance of initiative or domain specific solution architectures.
• Assess current architecture, platforms, and capabilities; identify gaps; and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions that may include custom development, third-party products, and integration with internal and external systems.
• Apply industry best practices, design patterns, and architecture standards to deliver resilient, high-performing, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions.
• Support business planning, initiative scoping, and roadmap development by providing architecture guidance, technical direction, and cost considerations.
• Lead or contribute to conceptual, solution, and component-level architecture artifacts, including diagrams, design specifications, implementation guidelines, and related documentation.
• Oversee solution implementation planning across the delivery lifecycle, including development, integration, testing, launch, and continuous improvement within Agile delivery models.
• Review and provide guidance on architectures produced within and outside the team to ensure alignment with enterprise direction, domain integrity, and quality expectations.
• Maintain a coordinated view of shared capabilities, application portfolios, and cross-functional or cross-region dependencies to support strategic decision-making.
• Evaluate third-party vendors, products, frameworks, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities that strengthen business capabilities and improve platform effectiveness.
• Identify architectural risks, compliance considerations, and data governance requirements, and define mitigation strategies to ensure adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and functional teams to resolve complex issues, maintain architecture integrity, and enable informed technical and business decisions.
• Present architecture recommendations, innovative ideas, and trade-off decisions to leadership and peer groups to support alignment, governance, and key decision-making.
• Contribute to architecture standards, continuous improvement initiatives, and the development of team capability through collaboration, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

API design

Integration

Agile methods

Investment domain knowledge

Job description

Manulife Financial in Toronto is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to join the GWAM Enterprise Architecture team. You will define end-to-end solution architectures that enable global-scale capabilities for institutional and general accounts investment management, translating business needs into scalable, secure designs.

You will collaborate with business, product, data, and technology partners across regions to drive platform transformation, governance, and architecture standards,