Manulife is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make decisions easier and lives better. Help shape the future you want to see — and discover that better can take you anywhere you want to go.
Position Responsibilities:
- Helps articulate business requirements associated with projects and helps identify non-functional requirements around performance, scalability, security, regulatory needs and organization standards.
- Develops, and gains buy-in for high-level architecture designs that support the business requirements.
- Helps assess architecture and capabilities already in place and works with technical and functional SMEs to recommend solutions to address gaps that may involve building software components, leveraging and customizing third party offerings and out-of-the-box products and defining the integration with internal and external systems.
- Evaluates third-party suppliers, products, frameworks, and platforms and engages in collaborative discussions that enhance the organization's technical capabilities and competitiveness.
- Utilizes industry leading practices and design patterns to create scalable and secure solutions.
- Develops system implementation plans/processes and oversees the development, integration, testing, and launch stages within the product/program lifecycle.
- Creates and maintains comprehensive solution documentation, including architecture diagrams, design specifications, and guidelines for implementation.
- Helps with cost estimation for implementing the solution.
- Assists in development of data driven methodologies and tools that enable business leaders to identify and make critical design decisions.
- Identifies and documents risks and defines mitigation actions.
- Identifies and helps resolve issues using sophisticated analytical problem-solving techniques, prior work experience, and deductive reasoning.
- Develops and builds productive internal/external working relationships and resolves issues through collaboration.
- Assists with the hiring, development, and management of a team of system analysts.
- Participates in establishing architecture and application development standards and leading practices and actively participates in the architecture team's continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensures adherence to industry regulations and data privacy laws.
- Collaborates with Data Governance and Data Management functions to define and align standards to the overall architecture.
- Performs ongoing architecture quality review activities related to specific projects and programs.
Required Qualifications:
- Expertise in large and/or complex system integration projects
- Expertise in crafting software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes
- Strong understanding of various integration and architecture technologies
- Strong understanding of business domain and industry trends, including awareness of top technology trends and financial technology offerings
- Strong knowledge of API design and integration patterns and cloud-based architectures
Decision Authority:
- Leads projects or work streams independently and contributes to their planning
- May act as professional expertise information resource for colleagues in own area, advising on a particular topic with a degree of authority
- Requires advanced problem-solving skills involving filtering, interpretation and validation of dynamic information
- Works independently, receives minimal guidance
- May coordinate resources for a small team and contribute to the effectiveness of their contributions to the broader area
Skills:
- Enterprise Architecture Framework
- IT Architecture Design
- IT Governance
- Cloud Computing
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 global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.
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 hr@manulife.com.
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