We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Business Architect to join Canada segment’s Technology & Operations Strategy team.
We are at the forefront of redefining our business and operating model using the latest artificial intelligence and automation innovations. Support Canada’s business and tech transformation by assessing capabilities and value streams.
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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

8+ years relevant experience driving large business transformations
Ability to successfully drive complex capability and value stream assessments, across multiple functions or business units.
Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies and work effectively at all levels of an organization to influence others to move toward consensus.
Experience with capability, value stream and customer experience assessments, SWOT analysis, definition, and governance of outcome-based transformation roadmaps.
Experience using model-based representations and business architecture blueprints, that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum 8 years experience in business and technology transformation roles with a degree in business, marketing, finance, or technology.

Complete capability and value stream assessments to address end-to-end business and technology impacts and ensure ongoing alignment between strategy and implementation.
Improve innovation and transformation for foundational capabilities to improve benefit through process standardization and technology re-use.
Identify common business and solution patterns; partner with technology teams to build out and govern reference architectures.
Develop an integrated view of organization’s business architecture to support capability, value stream or customer journey assessments and to define and govern outcome-based transformation roadmaps.
Keep updated on tech advancements and market trends, research competitors for innovation opportunities to improve our business model.
Help accomplish key project breakthroughs and overall project deliverables on schedule, within budget, and following relevant standards.