Director, Architect - Investment Management/Fund Services

Mackenzie Financial Corporation•Winnipeg, MB

8d•CA$162,500 - CA$197,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Architect sets architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services Pod and operates within the Investment Excellence Portfolio. The role defines standards and patterns, guides target-state roadmaps and resolves cross-initiative and cross-solution architectural complexity (dependencies, integration, sequencing, and technical debt) to enable delivery through clear standards and guardrails. Translates enterprise standards into actionable guidance for modern, high-performance financial systems.

Requirements

Extensive experience leading architecture across complex, enterprise-scale financial services portfolios (solution and/or domain).
Strong capability in governance, standards, target-state design, integration, and roadmap definition.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes across multiple teams without direct line authority.
Skilled in facilitating trade-offs and risk decisions while balancing strategic coherence with delivery pragmatism.
Architectural understanding of the end-to-end investment lifecycle, from front-office (portfolio construction, quantitative modeling, order management) and middle-office (risk analytics, compliance) to back-office (NAV calculation, fund accounting).
Strong knowledge of Wealth Management/Capital Markets and the Financial Services industry.
Experience with end-to-end technical solutions and business processes to support Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Institutional SMAs.
Knowledge of diverse asset classes and their data structures, including public global equities, fixed income, derivatives, and private markets.
Previous experience working with Global Asset Managers and Market vendors such as CIBCM, BNY, Morningstar, Bloomberg, FactSet etc and the data associated with these systems and solutions.
Previous experience with Accounting Book of Record and Investment Book of Record solutions and awareness of the technology stacks
Experience delivering capabilities involving packaged / SaaS solutions.
Awareness of integration platforms including MuleSoft and/or others.
Awareness of the technology stack used in capital markets, investment and/or wealth management.
Advanced knowledge of enterprise data architecture, including relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and cloud data platforms like Google BigQuery or Snowflake.
Experience designing high-performance analytics systems, with an awareness of parallel computing techniques (e.g., using NumPy, Pandas, multi-threading, NVIDIA CUDA for large-scale data processing)
Fluent working in Jira, Confluence, Kanban and Sprint Boards
Familiarity with leveraging AI agentic solutions (OpenClaw, AgentSH, etc.), MCP servers and prompt context optimization

Responsibilities

Set architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services pod to ensure alignment to enterprise standards, technology strategy, and business priorities.
Define and govern domain standards, patterns, and reference architectures and designs for building resilient, scalable, and secure buy-side applications (including technology guardrails).
Define and evolve the Domain Target Architecture and target-state roadmap focusing on modernizing platforms for portfolio analytics, fund services, and data management and aligning sequencing and technology investments to multi-year priorities.
Resolve complex cross-solution architectural issues (low latency data integration, system interoperability and dependencies between front, middle, and back-office platforms) and drive pragmatic decisions on trade-offs and risk.
Guide and coach others, ensuring consistent application of architectural principles focused on secure high-performance engineering and quality expectations without direct people management.
Identify architectural risk and technical debt and sponsor remediation and modernization plans from legacy systems to modern, cloud-native solutions.
Lead the design of data-centric solutions, ensuring auditable data lineage and robust governance for all financial calculations, trading decisions, and ledger adjustments.
Participate in architecture chapter activities (e.g., standards, patterns, knowledge sharing, and peer reviews) to strengthen practice consistency and capability maturity