Senior Cloud Architect – AI & Modernization

At Manulife, we’re transforming how technology is built and delivered at scale. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to help lead the evolution of our application landscape toward cloud-native, AI-enabled platforms.

In this role, you will work closely with engineering, platform, and business teams to modernize complex application environments—moving beyond traditional lift-and-shift approaches to design scalable, resilient, and intelligent solutions in the cloud.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on shaping architecture patterns, accelerating modernization, and enabling teams to deliver faster, with greater efficiency and flexibility.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve cloud-native architecture patterns that enable scalable, resilient, and AI-ready applications
• Partner with engineering teams to modernize applications from VM-based environments to PaaS, containerized, and serverless solutions
• Lead architecture reviews and guide teams in making practical, forward-looking design decisions
• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce complexity, and improve delivery speed
• Develop and promote repeatable modernization approaches that teams can adopt consistently
• Collaborate with data and platform teams to ensure architectures support high-quality, accessible data for AI use cases
• Explore and apply automation or AI tools to accelerate modernization, system analysis, and architecture decision-making

Required Qualifications:

• Experience designing and modernizing applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred; other cloud platforms considered)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, including containers, serverless, and event-driven systems
• Experience supporting application transformation beyond basic infrastructure migration

Engineering & Collaboration

• Ability to work across application, platform, and data layers to solve complex architecture challenges
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort working directly with engineering teams on real-world system design and modernization initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience applying AI or automation to support system analysis, modernization, or architecture decisions
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed system design
• Exposure to tools such as Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code frameworks
• Experience working in large-scale or regulated environments

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. 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, advancement, and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact hr@manulife.com.

Referenced Salary Location

Toronto, Ontario

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$113,000.00 CAD - $163,000.00 CAD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact hr@manulife.com for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact hr@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

We use data and analytics technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and automated processing tools, to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process. For more information, please refer to our personal information collection statement.

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