The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for defining and driving technology architecture strategy across Group Benefits a major business segment within the Canadian business segment.

This role provides strategic leadership to architecture teams, establishes technology standards, influences executive decision-making, and ensures technology investments align with business outcomes, resilience objectives, and enterprise architecture principles.
**Position Responsibilities:**
**Architecture Strategy & Leadership**
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.
**Business Unit Architecture Governance**
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
**Technology Transformation**
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.
**Stakeholder Management**
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.
**Talent & Community Leadership**
Leading a team of solution architects (3-5), business architects (3-5), data architects (1-2) and platform architects (1-2).

Mentor solution, business, data and platform architects.

Foster a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and knowledge sharing.

Champion architecture best practices across the organization.
**Required 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 contemporary engineering practices.

Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization programs.

Strong executive communication, influencing, and governance skills.

Proven ability to drive alignment across large organizations.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Financial services or highly regulated industry experience.

Experience with AI, digital platforms, data architecture, and technology resilience.

Architecture certifications (TOGAF, cloud certifications, etc.).
**When you join our team:**
We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our distributed team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
**Giới thiệu về Manulife và John Hancock**
Tập đoàn Manulife Financial là nhà cung cấp dịch vụ tài chính quốc tế hàng đầu giúp mọi người quyết định dễ dàng hơn và có cuộc sống vẹn toàn hơn. Để tìm hiểu thêm về chúng tôi, hãy truy cập
https://www.manulife.com.vn/ .
**Manulife là Nhà sử dụng lao động không phân biệt đối xử**
Tại Manulife/John Hancock, chúng tôi luôn đón nhận sự đa dạng.

Chúng ta cố gắng thu hút, phát triển và duy trì lực lượng lao động đa dạng tương tự như những khách hàng mà chúng ta phục vụ, đồng thời thúc đẩy một môi trường làm việc hòa nhập, đề cao thế mạnh của từng nền văn hóa và cá nhân.

Chúng ta cam kết tuyển dụng, duy trì, thăng tiến và trả lương một cách công bằng. Đồng thời, chúng ta quản lý tất cả các hoạt động và chương trình của mình mà không phân biệt đối xử dựa trên chủng tộc, dòng họ, xuất thân, màu da, nguồn gốc dân tộc, quyền công dân, tôn giáo hoặc tín ngưỡng tôn giáo, đức tin, giới tính (bao gồm phụ nữ mang thai và các tình trạng liên quan đến mang thai), xu hướng tính dục, đặc điểm di truyền,



tình trạng cựu chiến binh, bản dạng giới, biểu hiện giới, tuổi tác, tình trạng hôn nhân, tình trạng gia đình, khuyết tật hoặc bất kỳ căn cứ nào khác được pháp luật hiện hành bảo vệ.
Ưu tiên của chúng ta là loại bỏ các rào cản để đem lại cơ hội tiếp cận việc làm bình đẳng. Đại diện Bộ phận Nhân sự sẽ làm việc với những ứng viên có yêu cầu điều chỉnh hợp lý trong quá trình ứng tuyển. Tất cả thông tin được chia sẻ trong quá trình yêu cầu điều chỉnh sẽ được lưu trữ và sử dụng tuân theo pháp luật hiện hành và chính sách của Manulife/John Hancock. Để yêu cầu điều chỉnh hợp lý trong quá trình ứng tuyển, hãy liên hệ với
[email protected] .
**Referenced Salary Location**
Waterloo, Ontario
**Working Arrangement**
Kết hợp
**Salary range is expected to be between**
$113,260.00 CAD - $210,340.00 CAD
Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

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.

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact
[email protected]
for the salary range for your location.

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
[email protected]
for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

We use data and analytics technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and automated processing tools, to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process.

For more information, please refer to our personal information collection statement (https://careers.manulife.com/global/en/talentacquisitionprivacystatement) .

📌 Lead Solution Architect (Vancouver)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Vancouver