Senior Cloud Architect – AI & Modernization

ManulifeToronto, ON
CA$113,000 - CA$163,000Hybrid

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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