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Hybrid

Job Description

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated AVP, Global Enterprise Architect to join Manulife’s Global Enterprise Architecture team. The role will push forward the Global Cross-Enterprise Solution architecture vision by creating guidance and mechanisms that enable the company to think firm-wide when considering capabilities development. You'll work closely with Business, Segments Architects, product, and technology partners to translate long-term objectives into designs that fuel firm-wide reuse and convergence.

The team is responsible for defining the process, building blocks, and target-state cross-enterprise vision that helps avoid duplication and optimize architecture. We are an organization that values diversity and big thinking rewards both behaviors and delivery and focuses on growth and continuous improvement – all in support of Manulife’s 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 a direct impact on company direction, our customers, and our industry.

Office location: 200 Bloor St. East, Toronto, ON, Canada

Work Arrangement: Role requires to be Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days from home)

What you’re good at:

• Strategic IT Decision Driver

• Tech-Savvy Business Leader

• Agile Thinker

• Data-Driven Decision Maker

• Evangelist

In order to:

• Lead the application portfolio management initiatives, including driving application rationalization, application portfolio roadmaps, program governance, data management, and total cost of ownership in alignment with the distributed team

• Align business strategy, goals/objectives with information technology requirements to support business transformation and modernization across the enterprise

• Developing a coordinated view of company business capabilities and processes using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry-standard techniques

• Collaborate and communicating with business to ensure IT and business architecture’s requirements are aligned

• Forecast information technology architecture requirements and developing the organization’s “technology roadmap” to support short- and long-term interpersonal technology requirements aligned with business strategy

• Develop architectural standards, frameworks, and policies for the acquisition and implementation of IT technologies (hardware and software); monitor and measure the adoption and alignment to standards and guidelines.

• Develop information roadmaps, information integration strategy at the enterprise level, Architecture business capabilities, Technology, and Applications/Services Portfolio regarding Enterprise initiatives, consolidation solution, assessment solution, and technology in combination with best practices and Buy/Build/Use strategy

• Facilitate the mapping and auditability of information assets as they flow from upstream legacy, package, or custom development and interfaces to downstream analytical applications, thus ensuring optimal transparency, quality, consistency, and controlled redundancy across the enterprise.

• Provide architecture artifacts such as architecture reference model, Conceptual Solution Architecture, Architecture decisions, and Interface Specification document at the different level of abstraction and views for Private/hybrid cloud or on-premise solutions

• Manage complexity by balancing multiple stakeholders with conflicting needs and provide decisions on data architectural qualities such as manageability, scalability, security, and reusability

• Influence product/vendor direction and integrate technology from an architectural perspective within the business environment, and fulfilled an IT governance role, identify risks and provide risk mitigation

• Contribute to meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time, within budget, and adhering to relevant standards

What you have:

• A Bachelors/Masters degree or equivalent (Computer Science, Software Engineering)

• Executive level Leadership experience from large complex environment

• Global Enterprise Architecture experience

• A critical thinker – with the ability to understand contexts, identify patterns and trends, and analyze the impact of different change factors

• Experience with application portfolio management

• The 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.

• A strong software engineering and/or architecture background is required.

• Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, SOA, Event sourcing, etc.).

• Experience with data and application integration patterns (Domain-Driven, APIs, messaging, streaming, sync/async).

• Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security, and privacy).

• Experience with Cloud Architecture and Azure Services

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 ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ 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 recruitment@manulife.com.

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Toronto, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between

$123,400.00 CAD - $229,300.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com 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 recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.