Solutions Architect

The Canada Life Assurance Company • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$119,300 - CA$169,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Canada Life, the Senior Solutions Architect, Advisor Compensation Platforms leads the architecture, modernization, integration, and evolution of mission-critical advisor compensation capabilities, including Siebel CRM, FASAT, advisor management, data integration, and reporting solutions. This role is the primary architectural authority for advisor compensation technology, partnering with business, product, technology, vendor, and enterprise architecture teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions for onboarding, hierarchy management, commission processing, compensation reporting, and digital transformation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Senior Technical Lead.
• Strong experience with Siebel CRM, FASAT, advisor compensation/commission systems, enterprise application integration, and data architecture.
• Experience designing integrations using APIs, ETL, messaging, event-driven architectures, SQL, Oracle technologies, middleware, and enterprise architecture practices.
• Knowledge of cloud hosting, enterprise security, resiliency, operational support, monitoring, and disaster recovery models.
• Deep understanding of financial services, insurance, wealth management, advisor compensation, contracts, distribution operations, and regulatory considerations.
• Ability to align technology decisions with business strategy, operational risk, and enterprise standards.
• Strategic thinking, architecture governance, executive communication, stakeholder management, problem solving, influencing without authority, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Salesforce, data lakes, analytics platforms, and policy administration systems is an asset.
• Financial services experience and architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Azure, AWS, Oracle, or related credentials are preferred.
• Experience modernizing legacy, business-critical compensation, commission, or distribution technology platforms is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture, solution roadmaps, modernization strategies, and governance for Siebel, FASAT, and related compensation platforms.
• Translate advisor compensation, commission, hierarchy, contract, licensing, and payment requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Design integrations across Siebel CRM, FASAT, Data Lake, Salesforce, policy administration systems, ETL platforms, APIs, messaging, and reporting consumers.
• Evaluate technologies, reduce technical debt, support cloud adoption, and shape future-state compensation platform transformation.
• Improve resiliency, availability, security, performance, monitoring, disaster recovery, and incident/root cause practices.
• Mentor technical teams, influence investment decisions, and partner with business stakeholders, vendors, product owners, and enterprise architects.

Benefits

• Opportunities for career advancement
• Access to industry-leading learning programs
• Up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement
• Flexible health and dental benefits
• $5,000 mental health benefit
• In addition to regular vacation and personal days
• Volunteer day
• Company-matching pension plan
• Share ownership program
• Additional investment options
• Employee recognition programs
• Service milestone celebrations
• Employee discounts
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Mentorship programs
• Social clubs and events

What This Job Offers

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