What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Data Solution Architect, Wealth Technology position at Manulife?
Join our Wealth Technology Architecture team!
We want to foster and create diverse thinking and perspectives to drive innovative solutions. We recognize that sometimes we must embrace ambiguity, creative abrasions, and productive friction, to then help drive clarity. Above all, we strive to be leaders of influence. We invite you to join our team bringing your passion, high level of curiosity and capacity to constantly learn from both failure and success, remaining open to change and continuous improvement.
As the Senior Solution Architect responsible for the Fund Administration domain, you will develop and maintain our leading investment vehicle management capabilities. You will provide Business context, direction and facilitate the development of technology architecture required to align and meet business needs.
In this role, developing relationships with enterprise leaders both within business and IT groups is very important to facilitate better collaboration, bring clarity to complex problems and improve decision making.
As the role of Artificial Intelligence continues to evolve, you will craft solutions using AI. Additionally, you will use Manulife's internal AI tools to increase your own productivity.
Position Responsibilities
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.
If you are applying to this role in Canada, please note the salary range is $113,260 to $210,340 CAD. Additionally, employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.
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
Boston, Massachusetts
Working Arrangement
Hybrid
Salary range is expected to be between
$127,330.00 USD - $236,470.00 USD
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/John Hancock 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/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.
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.
Know Your Rights I Family & Medical Leave I Employee Polygraph Protection I Right to Work I E-Verify
Company: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)
We want to foster and create diverse thinking and perspectives to drive innovative solutions. We recognize that sometimes we must embrace ambiguity, creative abrasions, and productive friction, to then help drive clarity. Above all, we strive to be leaders of influence. We invite you to join our team bringing your passion, high level of curiosity and capacity to constantly learn from both failure and success, remaining open to change and continuous improvement.
As the Senior Solution Architect responsible for the Fund Administration domain, you will develop and maintain our leading investment vehicle management capabilities. You will provide Business context, direction and facilitate the development of technology architecture required to align and meet business needs.
In this role, developing relationships with enterprise leaders both within business and IT groups is very important to facilitate better collaboration, bring clarity to complex problems and improve decision making.
As the role of Artificial Intelligence continues to evolve, you will craft solutions using AI. Additionally, you will use Manulife's internal AI tools to increase your own productivity.
Position Responsibilities
- Collaborating with Product and Technology teams in Fund Administration to craft architectures which drive the customer experience, optimize costs, creates efficiencies, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Applying in-depth knowledge of architecture, software engineering, cloud technologies and data engineering, to define target architectures, patterns and processes.
- Designing for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
- Ability to manage pragmatic modernization and lead conceptual, solution, and component-level architectures and associated artifacts.
- Human Centered Design / UX principles.
- Developing reference architecture and reference implementation patterns.
- Mentoring and growing other technologists within the firm.
- Contributing to or leading definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive and cross-enterprise thinking to become the norm.
- Presenting architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making.
- 8-10 years in a similar role in a Financial Services company.
- Enterprise-level engineering or architecture experience delivering integrated solutions.
- Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns and models.
- Ability to own architecture and influence strategic direction and vision for the future.
- Desire and ability to understand the Fund Administration and Transfer Agent business domains.
- Desire to develop architectures that meet the current and anticipated business needs in those domains.
- Ability to evaluate new technologies and know the latest industry trends.
- Good judgment and the ability to handle high pressure situations.
- Experience with data and application integration approaches (passionate about business context, APIs, messaging, streaming, sync/async). Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security and privacy).
- Experience with Cloud Native Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.
- Knowledge of the enterprise technology space: languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends.
- Ability to devise, develop and apply innovative technology to solutions that would benefit our clients.
- Refined presentation and communication skills and expertise interfacing and communicating effectively with both engineers and executives.
- Experience managing architecture governance boards collaborating with other architects and engineers.
- A strong software engineering and/or architecture background is required.
- Azure Data Lake Services
- Azure Data Factory
- Databricks
- Power Apps
- Informatica EDL
- Markit EDM
- Charles River
- SQL
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.
If you are applying to this role in Canada, please note the salary range is $113,260 to $210,340 CAD. Additionally, employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.
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
Boston, Massachusetts
Working Arrangement
Hybrid
Salary range is expected to be between
$127,330.00 USD - $236,470.00 USD
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/John Hancock 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/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.
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.
Know Your Rights I Family & Medical Leave I Employee Polygraph Protection I Right to Work I E-Verify
Company: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)
Salary : $113,260 - $210,340