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Lead Solution Architect - GWAM Institutional and General Accounts Investments Technology
Hybrid · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead Solution Architect role within Manulife’s GWAM Enterprise Architecture team in Toronto (Hybrid). Drive end-to-end solution architectures for Institutional and General Accounts Investments Management, translating business needs into practical, scalable, and secure architectures. Align with enterprise direction, govern architecture artifacts, assess current platforms, identify gaps, and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions including custom development, third-party products, and integrations. Collaborate with engineering, data, and business stakeholders to enable value for customers now while shaping long-term platform transformation. Leverage industry frameworks, design patterns, and governance to ensure security, scalability, and regulatory alignment; communicate architecture recommendations to leadership and cross-functional teams. The role requires strong domain knowledge of investment/asset management processes, API/integration patterns, cloud-native approaches, and experience delivering large-scale enterprise solutions in an Agile environment.
Required Qualifications
- Proven ability to own solution architecture and influence strategic technology direction and future-state vision
- Strong software engineering and architecture foundation, with experience assessing, designing, and implementing complex enterprise solutions
- Experience delivering large and complex system integration initiatives and developing software, platform, and infrastructure architecture plans that support business outcomes
- Strong knowledge and experience in investment and financial systems, including understanding end-to-end investment or asset management processes
- Strong understanding of integration technologies, API design principles, integration patterns, and cloud-based or cloud-native architecture approaches
- Experience with domain-driven design, particularly in API- and integration-intensive data programs or projects
- Broad knowledge of enterprise technology, including languages, frameworks, architecture techniques, and industry/financial technology trends
- Experience addressing non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, maintainability, resiliency, security, privacy, and load distribution
- Ability to work effectively in Agile delivery environments
- Strong presentation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
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