Lead Solution Architect: Enterprise Platform Transformation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension & retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Manulife Financial seeks a Lead Solution Architect to advance GWAM’s enterprise architecture strategy across Institutional and General Accounts Investment Management. You will translate business needs into scalable, secure architectures and guide cross-functional teams across technology and product domains.

The role emphasizes end-to-end architecture, governance, and collaboration with senior stakeholders in a global financial services firm.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to own solution architecture and influence technology direction.
• Experience across diverse business domains and enterprise-scale solutions.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns and cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into scalable, secure solution architectures.
• Own end-to-end development and maintenance of initiatives or domains.
• Assess architectures, identify gaps, and propose fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Apply architecture standards to deliver resilient, cost-effective solutions.
• Lead architecture artifacts and documentation across delivery lifecycles.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and business teams to resolve complex issues.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud and API design

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Tools

Cloud platforms

API patterns

Job description

Manulife Financial seeks a Lead Solution Architect to advance GWAM’s enterprise architecture strategy across Institutional and General Accounts Investment Management. You will translate business needs into scalable, secure architectures and guide cross-functional teams across technology and product domains.

The role emphasizes end-to-end architecture, governance, and collaboration with senior stakeholders in a global financial services firm.