Lead Solution Architect

Manulife • Toronto, ON

1d • CA$113,260 - CA$210,340 • Hybrid

About The Position

Manulife is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to help design, scale, and modernize secure cloud platforms that support critical business systems across a global financial services organization. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership across Azure platform architecture, CI/CD strategy, and infrastructure as code. You’ll partner closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to deliver resilient, cost‑effective, and secure cloud solutions. You will also have the opportunity to explore how emerging AI capabilities can meaningfully enhance modern application platforms—moving beyond experimentation to real‑world impact. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys shaping platform direction, mentoring others, and balancing pragmatic delivery with long‑term sustainability. At Manulife, we’re focused on building digital platforms that support millions of customers worldwide—securely, responsibly, and at scale. Our engineering teams value thoughtful architecture, continuous improvement, and inclusive collaboration. You’ll join a culture that encourages learning, mentorship, and influence, where diverse perspectives help shape how modern cloud platforms and emerging technologies— including AI—are adopted with purpose and integrity.

Requirements

• Strong experience designing, implementing, and operating Azure cloud environments
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security principles
• Experience improving reliability, availability, and observability of production systems
• Ability to influence technical direction and mentor others without direct authority
• Comfort working across teams and communicating complex technical topics clearly

Nice To Haves

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS)
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, SRE, or FinOps practices
• Experience with observability tooling such as Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic
• Exposure to AI‑assisted development, Copilot tooling, or OpenAI SDKs
• Client‑facing or consulting experience
• Strong documentation and diagramming skills (e.g., architecture decision records, system diagrams)

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve secure, scalable Azure platform architectures that support modern application workloads
• Define and improve CI/CD strategies, infrastructure standards, and reusable platform patterns
• Lead technical discovery with stakeholders to understand business goals, constraints, and risk tolerance
• Evaluate existing Azure and DevOps environments and recommend modernization improvements
• Guide teams on cloud architecture decisions related to networking, identity, security, observability, and resiliency
• Support containerized and orchestrated workloads using modern deployment models
• Establish and promote DevSecOps practices, including secure access, policy enforcement, and compliance automation
• Mentor engineers and contribute to shared engineering standards and best practices
• Communicate architectural trade‑offs clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Work effectively in environments with evolving requirements and incomplete information
• Explore and prototype AI‑enabled workflows, tooling, or platform capabilities where they add meaningful value

Benefits

• 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
• various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
• financial education and counseling resources
• generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
• full range of statutory leaves of absence

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed