Description:
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
- Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to craft data architecture that enables business and technology vision
- Develop and maintain the organization’s information model for effective collaboration between the Business and IT, and understanding of end-to-end information flows
- Understanding complex data integrations and business information models
- Deep knowledge and experience in design and implementation of Enterprise Data Integration/Semantic/Information models patterns and frameworks
- Big data environments and specifically developing large enterprise solutions with respect to volume, variety, velocity and veracity (the big-4)
- Awareness of regulatory and compliance directives such as BCBS230, PIPEDA, GDPR
- Designing systems to support flow of data through the organization by participating in or leading in producing conceptual, solution, and component-level architectures and associated artifacts
- Reviewing, advising, and providing feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team
- Developing reference architecture and reference implementation patterns
- Contributing to or leading definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive and cross-enterprise thinking to become the norm
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to maintain the integrity of the information model
- Helping to develop new and revising data management and data governance processes to ensure alignment of a diverse set of technology projects with the enterprise target state vision
- Connecting your business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Manulife’s platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers
- Presenting architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
- Assisting the business in the scoping and planning of upcoming initiatives and roadmap items