Strategic Solution Architect Lead

Manulife; Southwestern Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Disability insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

The Lead Solution Architect at Manulife leads technology architecture strategy for Group Benefits within Canada, shaping roadmaps, standards, and modernization programs. This role partners with executives to align technology investments with business outcomes, resilience, and enterprise principles.

As a senior advisor, you will guide modernization efforts across portfolios, champion architecture best practices, and mentor teams to ensure security, availability, and scalable platforms while

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.
• Establish and govern architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Lead architecture review boards and major design decisions.
• Ensure technology solutions adhere to enterprise principles and security requirements.
• Drive consistency across domains, platforms, and delivery teams.
• Designing for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
• Assisting the business in the scoping and planning of upcoming initiatives and roadmap items
• Participating in or leading in producing conceptual, solution, and component-level architectures and associated artifacts
• Reviewing, advising, and providing feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team
• Lead large-scale transformation initiatives spanning multiple portfolios.
• Guide application modernization, cloud adoption, platform engineering, and resilience programs.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and cost optimization.
• Influence investment prioritization and technology roadmaps.
• Partner with executive leaders, engineering teams, product leaders, risk, security, and operations.
• Build consensus across complex stakeholder groups.
• Present architectural recommendations and business cases to senior leadership.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Executive communication

Governance

Leadership

Job description

The Lead Solution Architect at Manulife leads technology architecture strategy for Group Benefits within Canada, shaping roadmaps, standards, and modernization programs. This role partners with executives to align technology investments with business outcomes, resilience, and enterprise principles.

As a senior advisor, you will guide modernization efforts across portfolios, champion architecture best practices, and mentor teams to ensure security, availability, and scalable platforms while