Senior Cloud Architect – AI & Modernization
About The Position
At Manulife, we’re transforming how technology is built and delivered at scale. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to help lead the evolution of our application landscape toward cloud-native, AI-enabled platforms. In this role, you will work closely with engineering, platform, and business teams to modernize complex application environments—moving beyond traditional lift-and-shift approaches to design scalable, resilient, and intelligent solutions in the cloud. This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on shaping architecture patterns, accelerating modernization, and enabling teams to deliver faster, with greater efficiency and flexibility.
Requirements
- Experience designing and modernizing applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred; other cloud platforms considered)
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, including containers, serverless, and event-driven systems
- Experience supporting application transformation beyond basic infrastructure migration
- Engineering & Collaboration Ability to work across application, platform, and data layers to solve complex architecture challenges
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort working directly with engineering teams on real-world system design and modernization initiatives
Nice To Haves
- Experience applying AI or automation to support system analysis, modernization, or architecture decisions
- Familiarity with microservices and distributed system design
- Exposure to tools such as Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code frameworks
- Experience working in large-scale or regulated environments
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve cloud-native architecture patterns that enable scalable, resilient, and AI-ready applications
- Partner with engineering teams to modernize applications from VM-based environments to PaaS, containerized, and serverless solutions
- Lead architecture reviews and guide teams in making practical, forward-looking design decisions
- Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce complexity, and improve delivery speed
- Develop and promote repeatable modernization approaches that teams can adopt consistently
- Collaborate with data and platform teams to ensure architectures support high-quality, accessible data for AI use cases
- Explore and apply automation or AI tools to accelerate modernization, system analysis, and architecture decision-making
Benefits
- health
- dental
- mental health
- vision
- short- and long-term disability
- life and AD&D insurance coverage
- adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
