Lead Enterprise Solution Architect (Director level)_

Boston

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

**Job Description**

**The Opportunity**

**Office locations: Boston-USA or Toronto-Canada or Waterloo-Canada**

**Work Arrangement: role requires to be Hybrid - 3 days in Office, 2 days from Home**

**Lead Enterprise Solution Architect**

You will lead the solution architecture practice and strategy for the Cloud and Technology domain. Evangelize and drive alignment on the adoption and realization of the solution architecture strategy with hands-on approach, researching and presenting solutions, conducting experiments, and building prototypes to validate ideas and demonstrate the effectiveness of the solutions you recommend.

**Responsibilities**

+ Responsible for architectural design, issues, and solutions considerations; apply industry standard processes to build scalable and secure solutions that have outstanding technical performance.

+ Defines desired platform, analyzes, designs and implements new technologies as required by evolving user needs.

+ Recommends architectural solutions for complex infrastructure based on standards

+ Builds and maintains complex system architectures.

+ Troubleshoots mis-specified architectures and rapidly corrects them.

+ Has positive impact to specific organizational entities & understands nature of impact.

+ Crafts templates and solution components for software and platform engineers to use.

+ Works across small to medium-sized teams with a common purpose of setting guidelines and clarifying outcomes.

+ An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies

+ Experience in building / deploying cloud native and serverless applications

+ Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services

+ Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies

+ Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, ServiceNow a big plus

**Required Qualifications**

+ Degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or equivalent

+ Minimum 12 years relevant work experience in Public Cloud / Hybrid Cloud Architecture Design and Implementation

+ Strong hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms, including but not limited to Azure, Alibaba Cloud.

+ Azure hands-on experience is highly desired

+ Strong technical experience in designing Cloud Native Architecture

+ Azure Solutions Architecture Expert certification(s) and/or Alibaba Cloud certification preferred.

+ Knowledge on Cloud Native Architecture

+ Experience in Agile, Scrum and DevOps methodologies

+ Experience in Containerization, Automation and Orchestration using tools such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins…etc

+ Sound knowledge across multiple IT technology domains

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**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_ _._

**Salary & Benefits**

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

**Primary Location**

Toronto, Ontario

**Salary range is expected to be between**

$107,730.00 CAD - $200,070.00 CAD

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