Director, Architect - Investment Management/Fund Services
Mackenzie Financial Corporation1 month ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services pod in alignment with enterprise standards, technology strategy, and business priorities.
- Define and govern domain standards, patterns, reference architectures, designs, and technology guardrails for resilient, scalable, and secure buy-side applications.
- Develop target-state architecture and multi-year modernization roadmaps for portfolio analytics, fund services, and data management.
- Resolve cross-solution architectural issues involving low-latency data integration, interoperability, dependencies, sequencing, trade-offs, and risk.
- Guide and coach others on architectural principles, secure high-performance engineering, and quality expectations without direct people management.
- Identify technical debt and architectural risk and sponsor remediation and modernization from legacy systems to cloud-native solutions.
- Lead data-centric solution design with auditable data lineage and governance for financial calculations, trading decisions, and ledger adjustments.
- Participate in architecture standards, pattern, knowledge-sharing, and peer-review activities.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading architecture across complex, enterprise-scale financial-services portfolios.
- Strong capability in governance, standards, target-state design, integration, and roadmap definition.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes across multiple teams without direct line authority.
- Experience with the end-to-end investment lifecycle, including portfolio construction, quantitative modeling, order management, risk analytics, compliance, NAV calculation, and fund accounting.
- Strong knowledge of wealth management, capital markets, and financial services, including Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Institutional SMAs.
- Knowledge of public global equities, fixed income, derivatives, private markets, and associated data structures.
- Experience with global asset managers, market vendors, Accounting Book of Record and Investment Book of Record solutions, packaged or SaaS solutions, and capital-markets technology stacks.
- Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, relational databases, cloud data platforms, high-performance analytics, and parallel computing techniques.
- Experience or familiarity with MuleSoft, SQL Server, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, NumPy, Pandas, multi-threading, NVIDIA CUDA, Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Sprint Boards, AI agentic solutions, MCP servers, and prompt context optimization.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangement with three days per week in the office in Toronto or Winnipeg.
- Annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plans, paid time off, and career development support.
- Education and career support and an Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching.
- Health and dental coverage, flexible family plans, and short- and long-term disability plans.
- Voluntary Defined Contribution Pension Plan.
- Paid volunteer days, 10 wellness days off, and a WorkPerks discount program.
- Inclusive culture, employee-led Business Resource Groups, and accessibility accommodations throughout recruitment.
Tech Stack
Google BigQueryMicrosoft SQL ServerNumPyPandasSnowflake
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