Senior Business Architect

Manulife Financial; Toronto; On-site; CAD 94,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking an experienced Senior Business Architect to support business and technology transformation in Toronto. The candidate will conduct capability assessments and drive innovation across functions. Ideal applicants have over 8 years of experience in business transformation, strong communication skills, and a background in business or technology. This position offers a flexible working environment and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Customizable health and wellness benefits

Retirement savings plans

Generous paid time off

Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant experience driving large business transformations.
• Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization.
• Experience using model-based representations and business architecture blueprints.

Responsibilities

• Complete capability and value stream assessments.
• Identify common business and solution patterns; work with technology teams.
• Keep updated on tech advancements and market trends.

Skills

Business transformation experience

Capability and value stream assessments

Cross-functional influence

SWOT analysis

Exceptional communication skills

Education

Degree in business, marketing, finance, or technology

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Business Architect to join Canada segment’s Technology & Operations Strategy team.

We are at the forefront of redefining our business and operating model using the latest artificial intelligence and automation innovations. Support Canada’s business and tech transformation by assessing capabilities and value streams.

We are an organization that values diverse and big thinking, rewards both behaviors and delivery, and focuses on growth and continuous improvement – all in support of Manulife’s mission to help clients and one another succeed.

Position Responsibilities

• Complete capability and value stream assessments to address end-to-end business and technology impacts and ensure ongoing alignment between strategy and implementation.
• Improve innovation and transformation for foundational capabilities to improve benefit through process standardization and technology re-use.
• Identify common business and solution patterns; partner with technology teams to build out and govern reference architectures.
• Develop an integrated view of organization’s business architecture to support capability, value stream or customer journey assessments and to define and govern outcome-based transformation roadmaps.
• Keep updated on tech advancements and market trends, research competitors for innovation opportunities to improve our business model.
• Help accomplish key project breakthroughs and overall project deliverables on schedule, within budget, and following relevant standards.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant experience driving large business transformations
• Ability to successfully drive complex capability and value stream assessments, across multiple functions or business units.
• Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies and work effectively at all levels of an organization to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Experience with capability, value stream and customer experience assessments, SWOT analysis, definition, and governance of outcome-based transformation roadmaps.
• Experience using model-based representations and business architecture blueprints, that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years experience in business and technology transformation roles with a degree in business, marketing, finance, or technology.

When you join our team

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and Hengkang

宏利金融公司是一家業界領先的國際金融服務商，致力於幫助人們實現「輕鬆投資理財，樂享豐盛人生」。若要進一步了解我們，請瀏覽 https://www.manulifeim.com/institutional/tw/en

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Referenced Salary Location: Toronto, Ontario

Working Arrangement: 混合式

Salary range is expected to be between $94,220.00 CAD - $174,980.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.