Senior Enterprise Architect – Finance

Job title: Senior Enterprise Architect – Finance

Company: Manulife

Job description: 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.

Job Description

The Finance Sr Enterprise Architect will be responsible for applying business and technical expertise to design, implement and support new business capabilities strategic to Finance & Treasury’s long-term growth. Supporting Finance & Treasury you will be responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of the current and target state of architecture in this area.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborating with Finance and Treasury teams to identify and drive opportunities for architecture alignment and reuse between Finance & Treasury and other functions

Supporting and driving definition of key aspects of the strategic architecture, identifying and resolving gaps or key issues

Works with executives from various groups to provide architectural recommendations & guidance as well as executive-level presentations at the enterprise level.

Providing architectural direction and communicating architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies.

Delivers architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency to align with business strategy.

Partners with broader stakeholders in technology and business in defining architecture possibilities and future.

Identifies risks or issues with technology solution & design which may impact realization of project benefits and provides guidance and support to stakeholders in making good decisions to pro-actively resolve or mitigate potential risks/delays to the project

Identifies and researches relevant technologies, performs proof of concepts/prototypes, and recommends applications of such technologies to future product architectures.

Analyzes and designs viable solutions to high complexity business problems according to user specifications.

Ensuring the quality and consistency of architecture artefacts across the embedded architecture domains (e.g. system flows, data flows, conceptual designs, and application/information models)

Contributing to standards, policies, best architectural practise and the process to govern against these standards

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business, (or related) or the equivalent in work experience

Finance knowledge to assess impact of applied technology on financial business processes

Expert knowledge of computer or network systems hardware and software theory, practice, concepts and technology relevant to organizational vision

Proven experience in architecting and designing mission critical systems

Demonstrates expert knowledge of design and analysis methodology and application development processes

Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various scale, degree and dimension of complexity

Prior experience with digital transformation of legacy applications

Proficient in the techniques that go into producing designs of complex systems, including requirements discovery and analysis, formulation of solution context, identification of solution alternatives and their assessment, technology selection, and design configuration

This is a permanent full time role located in Toronto, ON.

If you are ready to unleash your potential, it’s time to start your career with Manulife/John Hancock.

About Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2019, we had more than 35,000 employees, over 98,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving almost 30 million customers. As of March 31, 2020, we had $1.2 trillion (US$0.8 trillion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made $30.4 billion in payments to our customers. Our principal operations are in Asia, Canada and the United States where we have served customers for more than 155 years. We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention and advancement and we administer all of our practices and programs based on qualification and performance and without discrimination on any protected ground. It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will consult with applicants contacted to participate at any stage of the recruitment process who request any accommodation. Information received regarding the accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 04:03:38 GMT