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Manulife

Lead Solution Architect

Toronto, ON, Canada
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Regina, SK, Canada
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Halifax, NS, Canada
Calgary, AB, Canada

$113,260.00 CAD - $210,340.00 CAD · Full-time

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Job details

Pay: $113,260.00 CAD - $210,340.00 CAD
Job type: Full-time
Apply by: Oct 23, 2026
Experience: 15+ years of progressive technology experience.
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 28, 2026

Original job description

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 modern 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.

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.

Referenced Salary Location

Waterloo, Ontario

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

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 hr@manulife.com 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 hr@manulife.com 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.

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Responsibilities

The Lead Solution Architect defines and drives technology architecture strategy, ensuring alignment between business outcomes and enterprise technology investments. This role provides strategic leadership to architecture teams, governs technology standards, and influences executive decision-making across the organization.

Requirements

Candidates must have 15+ years of progressive technology experience, including at least 3 years in enterprise or principal architecture leadership roles. Deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices is required, along with strong executive communication and governance skills.

Skills

Solution architecture
Enterprise architecture
Cloud platforms
Distributed systems
Modern engineering practices
Technology strategy
Leadership
Stakeholder management
Governance
Modernization
AI
Data architecture
Platform engineering
Resilience
Executive communication
Mentoring

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Mental health support
Vision insurance
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Life insurance
AD&D insurance
Adoption/surrogacy benefits
Wellness benefits
Employee assistance plans
Retirement savings plans
Pension
Global share ownership plan
Paid time off

Visa sponsorship

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Keywords

Solution Architect
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud
AI
Data Architecture
Platform Engineering
Modernization
Resilience
TOGAF
Financial Services
Governance
Strategy
Distributed Systems
Leadership
Mentoring
Architecture Review Board
Digital Platforms
Technology Transformation
Stakeholder Management
Engineering Excellence

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