Senior Solution Architect

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.

Job Description

• We are looking for a passionate technology solutions leader to design and lead technical vision, who understands how to deliver what the customer wants and needs, through great collaboration with our business, operations, and engineering teams.

  Are you excited to tackle sophisticated cases while being at the forefront of the technology journey? Do you want to help with the transformation of our insurance business? Join our team!

  How will you contribute?

  Partner with engineering, business and operations teams to craft and implement cross-platform solutions to support our customers insurance needs and the partners selling our products.

  • Architectural design of complex software components, issue, and solution considerations; apply industry standard processes to build scalable and secure solutions that have outstanding technical performance.
  • Partner with product collaborators to help influence priorities while being responsible for the technical solutions.
  • Complete gap analysis of current solution design, evaluate future needs and develop proof of concepts.
  • Cost/benefit analysis of solutions considering technology, risks, scope, cost, quality, time, and resources.
  • Learn how to measure critical metrics, understand their value, and then use the results to continuously improve both the ecosystem and your solutions.
  • Be proactive, work with collaborators to define architecture prior to initiating an effort, present and explain these concepts.
  • Design and develop reusable architecture models and share knowledge with the larger team.
  • Keep models current and accessible to the larger team.
  • Work across small to medium sized teams setting guidelines and clarifying outcomes.

  Attributes:

  • 7+ years proven experience as a Solution Architect
  • Strong background in Cloud system solution design and Event-based architecture.
  • Proficient in NodeJS, React, C#, Azure, .Net, Mongo/Cosmo, Window/SQL, Java, Salesforce, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Power BI, AEM
  • In-depth knowledge of the Azure ecosystem.
  • Experience in design and architecture of software, understanding NFRs like scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Demonstrated ability engineering large scale sophisticated systems from design to production.
  • You obsess about customers, listen, engage, and act for their benefit.
  • Ability to translate sophisticated business problems and important metrics into a solution architecture.
  • Have an eye for the future - leader with vision who flourish with learning about what's on the horizon and seeing how it can be applied to the customer challenges we need to address.
  • Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.
  • Excellent time management, organization, communication, and problem-solving abilities
  • Excitement for learning and coaching others
  • Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods.
  • Ability to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
  • Strong analytical skills, cope with complex situations through deliberate analysis and planning

  
  What can we offer you?

  • A competitive salary and benefits packages.
  • A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
  • A focus on growing your career path with us.
  • Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
  • Professional development and leadership opportunities.

  
  Our commitment to you

  • Values-first culture
    We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
  • Boundless opportunity
    We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
  • Continuous innovation
    We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
  • Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
  • Championing Corporate Citizenship
    We build a business that benefits all partners and has a positive social and environmental impact.

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.

Salary range is expected to be between

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.