Principal Enterprise Architect - GWAM Institutional Investments Technology

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The opportunity

Are you looking for unlimited opportunities to develop and succeed?  With work that challenges and makes a difference, within a flexible and supportive environment, we can help our customers achieve their dreams and aspirations.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated (Principal-level) Enterprise Architect to join Manulife’s Global Wealth and Asset Management (GWAM) Enterprise Architecture team. The role will push forward GWAMs Institutional Investments Management Enterprise architecture vision by creating guidance and mechanisms that enable the company to produce Global-Scale capabilities in supporting our Institutional – Public, Private and General Accounts Investment Management businesses.  You will provide business context, direction and facilitate the development of technology architecture required to align and meet the business need.  You'll work closely with business, product, data office and technology partners to translate long-term objectives into designs that fuel firm-wide reuse and convergence. 

Our Manulife / John Hancock family is going through an exciting, yet challenging metamorphosis. We are transforming from a wise 130-year-old company into an agile 130-year-young company. This is a journey, and to quote T.S. Elliot; “The journey, Not the destination matters...”. On this journey, we expect all to bring their knowledge, skills and experience as a team and, when we don’t know, we will learn.

Within the Manulife family, our team is within Global Wealth and Asset Management and as a division we believe the truth is in the numbers. We believe it’s time to change the investment game. To do it differently by focusing on the value we bring our clients, rather than on the usual topics of performance and fees. We have just surpassed $1 trillion in assets under management with a diverse range of both public and private asset classes. Our division is global and have operations in North America, Asia and Europe and we serve a diverse range of clients from our own on-balance general account assets to institutional, retail and wealth.

The right individual will be a proactive, self-starter that enjoys and thrives when connecting people and technology to solve complex problems at-scale. You will analyze, model, and develop complex and high-level architecture plans that require the integration of multiple technologies and coordination of functional areas across the organization. If you have a passion and skill for long-term end-to-end thinking balanced with crafting architecture increments that enable value for customers now, this opportunity is for you! 

The Architecture team within the Enterprise Architecture organization is responsible for defining the building blocks and target-state cross-enterprise vision that helps GWAM avoid duplication and optimize architecture. We are an organization that values diverse and big thinking, rewards both behaviors and delivery, and focuses on growth and continuous improvement – all in support of Manulife’s mission to help clients and one another succeed. This role is a unique opportunity to join a team and company at the beginning of a multi-year platform transformation whose work will have direct impact on company direction, our customers, and our industry.

What you’re good at

• Providing leadership for building common understanding of Wealth and Asset Management business domain and operating model, strategic objectives and initiatives
• Developing and maintain business capability model for the domain as a basis for effective collaboration between the Business and IT
• Partnering with business and technology subject experts to translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Articulating IT strategic direction by developing and maintain architecture blueprints
• Assisting the business in the scoping and planning of upcoming initiatives and roadmap items
• Ensuring vitality of Institutional Investments Domain application portfolio through periodic reviews and assessments in collaboration with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Develop an integrated view of shared capabilities across different groups/regions and within Institutional Investments, identifying and highlighting cross-region and cross-functional dependencies
• Develop