Solution Architect

Manulife; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; Hybrid; IDR 300.000.000 - 400.000.000; Full time

Job summary

An international financial services provider is seeking a People Leader to manage architectural designs and integrate new technologies. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of business strategy and excellent interpersonal skills. Responsibilities include collaborative decision-making within a team and crafting solutions that align with evolving user needs. This hybrid role offers an opportunity to drive architectural change and contribute to a diverse workplace.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans.
• Good verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical vision.
• Collaborative attitude and willingness to work with team members.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for architectural designs and solutions.
• Defines desired platform and implements new technologies.
• Works in a small team and follows rules from team members.

Skills

Business strategy understanding

Interpersonal skills

Organizational abilities

Technical communication

Problem-solving abilities

Job description

Manulife is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make decisions easier and lives better. Help shape the future you want to see — and discover that better can take you anywhere you want to go.

People Leader Role

No

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for architectural designs, issues and solutions to support required hardware and software architecture; analyze system requirements, design and review new systems, drive change and integration projects to incorporate new components
• Defines desired platform, analyzes, designs and implements new technologies as required by evolving user needs
• Defines desired infrastructure, analyses, designs and implements new technologies as required by evolving user needs
• Designs component architectures
• Assist in designing application architectures
• Assists with maintenance of component architecture
• Contributes templates and solution component onboarding materials for Software and/or Platform Engineers to use
• Some positive impact to specific organizational entitles
• Works together in a small team with a common purpose, follows rules from team members

Job Requirements

• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes
• Evaluates and builds a network of third‑party suppliers
• Needs classroom training for new disciplines
• Needs mentoring from competent colleagues
• Needs recipes for problem solving
• Is pointed in the direction of relevant trainings by his or her colleagues
• Most interpersonal skills meet requirements
• Moderate working knowledge of key aspects of role
• Staying abreast of developments in own technical discipline
• Uses primarily knowledge of discipline to assist in identification and formulation of the right approach
• Most straightforward tasks completed to acceptable standard, requires some iteration
• Requires guidance to link each solution component
• Understands the informal structure
• Limited knowledge of the business
• Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods
• Constantly learns from both success and failure
• Good organizational and problem‑solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion
• Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
• Experiments with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next

Decision Authorities

• Able to achieve some tasks using own judgement; supervision needed
• Drives or leads smaller groups or solution component identification less than 30% of the time
• Not yet capable of tackling new problems by him/herself, needs support with problem solving

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.

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.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid