Senior Manager, Architect

IGM Financial; Toronto; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & benefits

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Health and dental coverage

Disability plans

Job summary

IGM Wealth Management is seeking a Senior Manager, Architect to own end-to-end solution architecture for major initiatives. You will translate business needs into architecture, guide design, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and non-functional requirements.

The role requires collaboration with delivery teams and governance to ensure production readiness. The ideal candidate has a strong track record across application, data, integration, cloud, and security design, with proven

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Prior experience operating as a solution architect or systems designer on complex initiatives.
• Demonstrated capability across solution architecture disciplines, including application, data, integration, cloud, and security design.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to guide delivery outcomes through influence and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Owns solution architecture for major initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, Objectives and Key Results, and non-functional requirements.
• Translating business and application needs into architecture patterns, system interaction models, integration approaches, and technology selections.
• Provide architectural oversight during build to ensure integrity.
• Collaborate with delivery and enabling roles to ensure seamless integration and operational readiness.
• Ensure architectural readiness for production including considerations for non-functional requirements, costs and operational support.
• Apply approved architecture standards, patterns, and review practices. Support use of AI-assisted practices in a controlled and governed manner.
• Participate in architecture chapter activities to strengthen practice consistency and delivery effectiveness.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud security design

Data architecture

Education

Post-secondary degree in CS/SE

Tools

SAP Data Platform

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Job description

Overall, Job Purpose

The Senior Manager, Architect is accountable for end-to-end solution architecture for major initiatives. Translates business and application needs into architecture patterns, systems interactions, and technology choices. The role owns solution architecture outcomes for assigned initiatives, ensures alignment to enterprise standards, Objectives and Key Results, and non‑functional requirements (e.g., security, scalability, resilience), and provides design oversight throughout build and implementation to ensure architectural integrity and delivery readiness.

This role contributes directly to delivery success within the delivery model by enabling speed and autonomy through clear architectural direction, while ensuring solutions conform to governance, risk, and compliance guardrails.

Key Accountabilities

• Owns solution architecture for major initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, Objectives and Key Results, and non‑functional requirements.
• Translating business and application needs into architecture patterns, system interaction models, integration approaches, and technology selections.
• Provide architectural oversight during build to ensure integrity.
• Collaborate with delivery and enabling roles to ensure seamless integration and operational readiness.
• Ensure architectural readiness for production including considerations for non-functional requirements, costs and operational support.
• Apply approved architecture standards, patterns, and review practices. Support use of AI‑assisted practices (e.g., documentation generation, architecture modelling or simulation) in a controlled and governed manner.
• Participate in architecture chapter activities (e.g., standards, patterns, knowledge sharing, and peer reviews) to strengthen practice consistency and delivery effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Post‑secondary degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Prior experience operating as a solution architect or systems designer on complex initiatives.
• Demonstrated capability across solution architecture disciplines, including application, data, integration, cloud, and security design.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to guide delivery outcomes through influence and technical leadership.

Preferred

• Experience within the financial services industry, including banking, wealth management, insurance, or asset management environments.
• Experience working with or supporting delivery involving:
• SAP Data Platform (including SAP data management and analytics capabilities)
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Experience working in a product operating model or pod-based delivery environment.
• Proven success working with geographically dispersed and cross-functional teams, coordinating across multiple regions and time zones.

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $145,000, 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.