Manulife

Lead Cloud Platform Architect, GTCS

Manulife
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17 hours ago
Toronto, Canada or Boston, MA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and design of secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across Azure, AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud.
  • Design, govern, and scale core cloud infrastructure, internal developer platforms, and multi-cloud strategies.
  • Define PaaS, container, serverless, microservices, API-first, and event-driven architecture patterns.
  • Drive legacy modernization and migration from IaaS to PaaS-first models.
  • Establish reusable architecture standards, templates, governance processes, and architectural decision records.
  • Partner with business, engineering, security, and technology stakeholders to align solutions with business, security, and compliance outcomes.
  • Contribute to AI platform architecture, including Generative AI, LLM integration, and Azure AI-enabled solutions.
  • Promote DevOps, infrastructure automation, observability, monitoring, performance, and resilience practices.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and contribute to technical direction and roadmap planning.
  • Apply responsible AI principles covering governance, security, and ethical considerations.

Requirements

  • Typically 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with strong Microsoft Azure experience.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud-native distributed systems.
  • Strong knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, containers, and Kubernetes, including AKS.
  • Deep understanding of cloud security, networking, landing zones, and governance principles.
  • Experience translating business needs into scalable technical solutions.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
  • Experience in multi-cloud environments is preferred.
  • Exposure to AI/ML or Generative AI platform design is preferred.
  • Experience in regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Bicep, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working arrangement; the referenced salary location is Toronto, Ontario.
  • Eligible employees may receive health, dental, mental health, vision, disability, life, AD&D, adoption/surrogacy, wellness, and employee/family assistance benefits.
  • Retirement savings plans, including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions, are available to eligible employees.
  • Financial education and counseling resources are offered.
  • Canadian paid time off includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, plus statutory leaves of absence.
  • Employees may participate in incentive programs tied to business and individual performance.
Manulife

About Manulife

10,000+ employees

Manulife is a Toronto‑headquartered public financial services company that provides life and health insurance, retirement plans, and wealth and asset management to individuals and institutions. It earns premiums and fee income from insurance, investment, and advisory products delivered across Canada, Asia, and Europe, and operates as John Hancock in the United States. Founded in 1887, the company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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