Overview

Location: Toronto, Winnipeg

Referral: Level 1

Mackenzie Investments

IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.

Mackenzie Investments, founded in 1967, is a key part of IGM's business model, serving as a comprehensive asset-management partner for Canadian financial advisors and their clients.

At Mackenzie Investments You Can Build Your Career with Confidence. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. Our vision and strategy aim to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals.

Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive setting.

Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues!

Our Values: Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.

As a senior member of IGM's Business Architecture team, you will help translate strategy into practical change across complex priorities that span organizational boundaries.

Operating as a senior individual contributor, you will lead the Business Architecture approach for an assigned business domain, portfolio, or strategic mandate. You will frame ambiguous challenges, define future-state capabilities and operating models, and advise senior leaders on options, investment implications, sequencing, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.

You will bring enterprise perspective, sound judgment, and deep Business Architecture expertise to build alignment without formal authority and improve the quality and consistency of architecture outcomes across IGM.

Key Responsibilities

- Translate enterprise strategy and business priorities into integrated capabilities, target operating models, and multi-year transformation roadmaps.
- Lead Business Architecture for complex priorities within an assigned domain, portfolio, or strategic mandate, including work that spans organizational boundaries.
- Define target-state direction and identify capability gaps, impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.
- Frame strategic options and provide clear recommendations to inform investment, prioritization, sequencing,



and operating-model decisions.
- Build alignment across business and technology stakeholders by facilitating decisions, clarifying trade-offs, and constructively challenging assumptions.
- Assess how AI, automation, data, and emerging technologies may reshape business capabilities, operating models, and customer or employee experiences.
- Provide architecture direction that helps delivery teams translate target-state intent into practical change and measurable outcomes.
- Contribute to Business Architecture methods, standards, governance, reference models, reusable assets, peer review, and practitioner development.

Required Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in Business, Commerce, Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Extensive progressive experience in Business Architecture, business transformation, strategic planning, operating-model design, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience leading Business Architecture work for complex, enterprise-scale transformation initiatives.
- Extensive experience developing business capabilities, target operating models, value streams, and multi-year transformation roadmaps.
- Proven ability to frame ambiguous business challenges, develop strategic options, and translate architecture direction into practical, measurable outcomes.
- Strong executive advisory, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence decisions and build alignment without formal authority.

Preferred Qualifications
- Business Architecture certification such as CBA, BAIP, TOGAF, or equivalent.
- Experience in financial services, with wealth or asset management experience, is considered an asset.
- Experience assessing the business implications of AI, automation, data, and emerging technologies.
- Experience advancing Business Architecture practices, standards, governance, reference models, or reusable enterprise assets.

Candidate Profile
- Enterprise thinker who connects strategy, capabilities, operating models, investments, and initiatives.
- Executive advisor who presents clear options, implications, trade-offs, and recommendations.
- Systems thinker who recognizes dependencies, broader impacts, and unintended consequences.




- Constructive challenger and team-oriented influencer who builds trust and alignment across organizational boundaries.
- Clear communicator and facilitator who makes complex ideas understandable and helps groups reach decisions.
- Senior practice contributor who coaches others, promotes reusable approaches, and focuses on measurable business value.

Benefits:

- COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION: competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
- EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE: competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short-term & long-term disability plans.
- RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS: voluntary Group RRSP enrolment with employer matching component.
- WORK LIFE BALANCE: paid volunteer days, competitive time off including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangements.
- INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY: living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).

IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. Mackenzie Investments is an accessible employer committed to providing barrier-free recruitment experience. If you require accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience to https://www.mackenzieinvestments.com/en/careers.

Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Mackenzie Investments; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please apply by October 26 2026.

📌 Director Business Architect (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 Mackenzie Financial
📍 Greater Toronto Area