Senior Solution Architect

Société Financière Manuvie; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Toronto is seeking a Solution Architect to join their Canadian Enterprise Architecture team. The role involves crafting cross-platform solutions, overseeing the technical ecosystem, and developing architecture models. Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in solution architecture, with a customer-centric approach and experience in complex system design. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement with a competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and dental benefits

Retirement savings plans

Paid time off programs

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as a Solution Architect.
• Demonstrated ability as an engineer for sophisticated systems.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into solution architecture.
• Experience with continuous delivery, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IT professionals to implement cross-platform solutions.
• Motivate to tackle complex cases and help transform the Canadian business.
• Take ownership of the technical ecosystem and manage solutions.
• Develop architecture models and maintain future models.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Engineering mindset

Customer engagement

Complex problem solving

Data-driven decision-making

Job description

Overview

Our Canadian Enterprise Architecture team is looking to expand our practice! We are looking for flexible, resilient, energetic IT professionals with an engineering mentality, who understands how to deliver what the customer wants and needs, through great collaboration with our business and IT partners. We encourage you to apply if you are passionate and experienced with the different pillars we are building on the team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with dedicated IT professionals to craft and implement cross-platform solutions to support our customers as they engage with the business processes.
• Motivate to tackle complex cases while being at the forefront of the technology journey; help with the transformation of our Canadian business.
• Take ownership of the broader technical ecosystem and the solutions you manage. Participate as a team member and use standards and patterns to speed progress.
• Be data driven in both decision making and in governance practices.
• Hold on demand reviews in public for greater transparency, ensuring that governance is collaborative and not punitive.
• Learn how to measure critical metrics, understand their value, and then use the results to continuously improve both the ecosystem and your solutions.
• Develop useful architecture models that can be brought to bear by both system architects and engineers, and demoing these models.
• Partner with product partners by influencing priorities while being responsible for the technical solutions.
• Be proactive, working with collaborators to create architecture concepts prior to initiating an effort, demoing changes to these concepts.
• Develop and maintain future models to align business and technology strategy, and any product purchases or vendor assessments.
• Keep models updated frequently and available for others to access.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as Solution Architect
• Demonstrated ability as an engineer for sophisticated systems from design to production.
• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
• Ability to translate complex business problems and important metrics into a solution architecture which can be demoed and implemented by multiple agile teams.
• Have an eye for the future - we need leaders with vision who flourish with learning about what's on the horizon and seeing how it can be applied to the customer challenges we need to tackle.
• You know and care about writing safe, sound, and secure code and have fixed issues yourself.
• Experience with and curiosity about going deep on topics such as continuous delivery, reliability, security, cloud, and data science.

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise Architecture and design
• Integration
• Cloud design and Implementation
• Cybersecurity

Benefits

• 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 John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [e-mail].

Salary and Working Arrangement

Referenced Salary Location: Toronto, Ontario

Working Arrangement: Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between $113,000.00 CAD - $163,000.00 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.