Manulife
Manulife
Manulife is an international financial services company headquartered in Canada, operating across insurance, healthcare, wealth management, investments, and retirement planning. Its products and services support customers in North America, Asia, and Europe as they manage long-term financial and health-related needs. With a large global workforce and operations spanning multiple markets, Manulife hires across business, technology, finance, insurance, and customer-focused teams. The company also emphasizes sustainability and an inclusive workplace culture.

Lead Infrastructure Architect, Manulife — Toronto Hybrid

Lead Manulife’s enterprise infrastructure architecture across cloud, networks, platforms, and core technology services. Help modernize technology foundations and strengthen resilience for a global financial-services organization.

Description

  • Set the strategic direction, standards, and roadmap for enterprise infrastructure and core technology platforms
  • Collaborate with engineering, operations, security, resilience, and business stakeholders
  • Modernize infrastructure while simplifying complex technology environments
  • Strengthen resilience and expand the use of cloud and platform services
  • Design target-state architecture spanning infrastructure, cloud, networks, end-user and workplace technology, observability, service management, and operational platforms
  • Align architectural decisions with enterprise strategy, security controls, and business objectives
  • Provide governance for major technology initiatives and modernization programs

Requirements

  • Substantial experience in infrastructure, platform, solution, domain, or enterprise architecture within complex organizations
  • Demonstrated ability to establish technology strategies and architecture roadmaps for infrastructure and platform services
  • Deep knowledge of Azure, AWS, and GCP, along with infrastructure services, networking, platform engineering, and distributed systems
  • Experience overseeing large-scale technology initiatives and modernization programs
  • Strong understanding of security, resilience, risk, compliance, and operational considerations
  • Practical experience with infrastructure automation, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and platform engineering
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management abilities, including influence with senior leaders and technology teams
  • Experience delivering work in Agile and product-focused environments
  • Broad expertise in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, network architecture, connectivity, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, DNS, hybrid cloud, and core technology services

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment focused on well-being and inclusion
  • Support for professional learning and career development
  • Health, dental, mental health, and vision coverage
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Adoption and surrogacy assistance
  • Wellness programs and resources
  • Employee and family assistance programs
  • Retirement savings options, including a pension plan
  • Global employee share ownership plan with employer matching
  • Financial education and counseling
  • Paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick leave in Canada
  • Statutory leave entitlements
  • Incentive programs and compensation linked to business and individual performance

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