Senior Solution Architect: Enterprise & Cloud Strategy

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

Job summary

Manulife Financial Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, seeks a Lead Solution Architect to define and drive technology architecture strategy across Group Benefits. You will lead architecture teams, set standards, and influence executives to align investments with business outcomes, resilience, and enterprise principles.

With 15+ years in technology and strong governance, you will shape large-scale modernization programs, mentor architects, and partner with stakeholders to deliver strategic platforms.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive technology experience.
• 3+ years in enterprise or principal architecture leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization programs.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, and governance skills.
• Proven ability to drive alignment across large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture vision, roadmaps, and target-state capabilities.
• Drive alignment between business strategy and technology investments.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, modernization, cloud, AI, data, and platform strategies.
• Act as the senior architecture advisor to business and technology executives.
• Lead architecture review boards and major design decisions.
• Drive consistency across domains, platforms, and delivery teams.
• Guide application modernization, cloud adoption, platform engineering, and resilience programs.
• Partner with executive leaders, engineering teams, product leaders, risk, security, and operations.
• Mentor solution, business, data and platform architects.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Modern engineering practices

Executive communication

Governance

Stakeholder alignment

Leadership of architects

Tools

TOGAF

Cloud certifications

Job description

Manulife Financial Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, seeks a Lead Solution Architect to define and drive technology architecture strategy across Group Benefits. You will lead architecture teams, set standards, and influence executives to align investments with business outcomes, resilience, and enterprise principles.

With 15+ years in technology and strong governance, you will shape large-scale modernization programs, mentor architects, and partner with stakeholders to deliver strategic platforms.