SeniorCloudArchitect

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 skil