Job Description

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You've come to the right place. We're looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you.

Working Arrangement Hybrid



The Opportunity

The Chief Architect of Global Data Technology is responsible for the delivery of designs and solutions for the data platform across Manulife and all its segments. This leader ensures business capabilities are designed with the flexibility and efficiency to provide market leading data and analytics capabilities to our customers and stakeholders to achieve our ambition of being a digital customer leader. As Global Data's chief architect, you will play a key technical leadership role in building and maintaining the design principles and approved technology patterns that drive consistency in our solutions and capabilities globally. You will work very closely with the architecture teams in our data offices and segment IT teams as well as our data engineers and data scientists to collaborate and form your vision and strategy for Manulife's global data architecture. Technical excellence and business understanding will be required in this role to design and maintain the evolution of the data platform so that it meets the needs of a variety of use cases based on strategic business value, analytics, and AI/ML products. In addition, the leader must have the ability to align all stakeholders through the various governance committees, while having a deep understanding of how to execute on the business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain architecture patterns and a playbook for Global Data that reflects our global technology strategy
• Forward-looking strategic thought leadership identifying emerging technology trends both internal and external to Manulife and formulating value propositions and actionable strategies
• Leading a team of architects (3-5)
• Leading architecture forums, publishing technology strategy and presenting to technology leaders and business executives, providing thought leadership around technical solutions
• 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
• Developing reference architecture and reference implementation patterns
• Mentoring and growing other technologists within the firm
• Leading the end-to-end solution design and architecture for key data and analytics initiatives.
• Contributing to or leading definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive and cross-enterprise thinking to become the norm
• Presenting architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
• Connecting your business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Manulife's data and analytics platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

What we are looking for

• Proven 5-10 years professional experience in data including a university degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent program or experience
• Ability to own architecture and influence strategic direction and vision for the future across a large organization
• Desire and ability to understand diverse business domains and develop architectures that meet the current and anticipated business needs across a broad set of partners
• Ability to evaluate new technologies and know the latest industry trends.
• Stays current on industry and technological advances and best practices within the technology area and able to articulate this knowledge including languages, frameworks, techniques and industry trends
• Good judgment and the ability to handle high pressure situations
• Experience with data and application integration patterns, APIs, messaging, streaming, sync/async
• Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security and privacy)
• Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns
• Knowledge of the enterprise technology space: languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends
• Ability (and preference) to work in an Agile environment
• Ability to devise, develop and apply innovative technology to solutions that would benefit our clients
• Refined presentation and communication skills and expertise interfacing and communicating effectively with both engineers and executives

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

• Values-first culture: We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
• Boundless opportunity: We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
• Continuous innovation: We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
• Championing Corporate Citizenship: We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

Every career at Manulife/John Hancock provides the opportunity to learn new skills and move your career forward. Ready to make an impact somewhere? What are you waiting for? Apply today.

About John Hancock and Manulife

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were CAD$1.3 trillion (US$1.1 trillion) as of June 30, 2021. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at .

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including , , , , and . Additional information about John Hancock may be found at .

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 .