Job Description

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid



The Architecture team within the Enterprise Architecture organization is responsible for defining the building blocks and target-state cross-enterprise vision that helps GWAM avoid duplication and optimize architecture. We are an organization that values diverse and big thinking, rewards both behaviors and delivery, and focuses on growth and continuous improvement \xe2\x80\x93 all in support of Manulife\xe2\x80\x99s mission to help clients and one another succeed. This role is a unique opportunity to join a team and company at the beginning of a multi-year platform transformation whose work will have direct impact on company direction, our customers, and our industry.

What you\xe2\x80\x99re good at

• Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to craft data architecture that enables business and technology vision
• Develop and maintain the organization\xe2\x80\x99s information model for effective collaboration between the Business and IT, and understanding of end-to-end information flows
• Understanding complex data integrations and business information models
• Deep knowledge and experience in design and implementation of Enterprise Data Integration/Semantic/Information models patterns and frameworks
• Big data environments and specifically developing large enterprise solutions with respect to volume, variety, velocity and veracity (the big-4)
• Awareness of regulatory and compliance directives such as BCBS230, PIPEDA, GDPR
• Designing systems to support flow of data through the organization by 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
• 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
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to maintain the integrity of the information model
• Helping to develop new and revising data management and data governance processes to ensure alignment of a diverse set of technology projects with the enterprise target state vision
• Connecting your business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Manulife\xe2\x80\x99s platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers
• Presenting architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
• Assisting the business in the scoping and planning of upcoming initiatives and roadmap items

What you have

• Ability to own architecture and influence strategic direction and vision for the future
• Experience defining business information models or entities within a business domain model: Representation of Business Glossary, Data lineage, Catalog physical data representations, Formalizing elements of the business model (e.g. Subject areas, Entities, Attribute Definitions and Attributes)
• Experience with domain driven design for API/Integration intensive data programs/projects
• Experience leveraging BIM/data information models to govern data intensive programs/projects
• Ability to analyze the information flow and recommend appropriate technology to support the business process
• Desire and ability to understand diverse business domains and develop data 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
• Good judgment and the ability to handle high pressure situations.
• Experience with and knowledge of common data Architecture patterns (e.g. multi-source and multi-destination, Event sourcing, Real-time streaming etc.)
• Experience with large-scale data and information modeling across domains and understanding of applicable regulatory and compliance standards
• Experience with data and application integration patterns (Domain-Driven, 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.
• A strong software engineering and/or architecture background is required
• Experience working in global, complex, customer-oriented IT environment
• Strong consulting skills in a variety of areas \xe2\x80\x93 methods and frameworks for developing strategic roadmaps (both Business and IT), EA practice, Business Process Modeling, Change Management, Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance, Enterprise Shared Services discovery, IT Strategic planning and Technology Modernization

Exposure to some or all of the following experiences is desired:

• Domain Knowledge of Business Capabilities: Retirement, Retail, Institutional Investment Management
• Asset and Wealth management operations platforms and technologies such as Bloomberg, SimCorp, Appway, Vermillion, SS&C Sylvan or equivalent

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as \xe2\x80\x98MFC\xe2\x80\x99 on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under \xe2\x80\x98945\xe2\x80\x99 in Hong Kong.

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 .

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location Toronto, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between $105,070.00 CAD - $195,130.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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