The Opportunity

As a core member of the Singapore Architecture Office, you will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic initiatives that align with both Singapore and regional visions. You will serve as a trusted advisor to multiple local and regional teams, providing strategic consulting as the primary interface between business and technology throughout the lifecycle of these initiatives. Your leadership will be crucial in guiding and inspiring the teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. Highly adaptive to a dynamic technology landscape, you will collaborate with other architects and domain experts to ensure successful business value delivery. You should be an effective communicator, quick to learn new tools and systems, and flexible in the face of change. Your ability to swiftly understand business challenges and use a combination of tools and concepts to create solution proposals will be essential. This role reports directly to the Head of Architecture, Singapore.

Responsibilities: 

• Define end-to-end solutions and enhance solution maturity across architecture layers.

• Establish solution roadmaps in alignment with Manulife’s regional target architecture in respective domains.

• Serve as an internal consultant to produce business transformation proposals with a clear architectural vision and lead the implementation of business transformation solutions through the definition and realization of interim architectures.

• Act as a domain expert to guide development teams in creating technical solutions that leverage business requirements, reference architecture, and solution architecture under the direction of the Asia Technology Office.

• Review, interpret, and respond to business requirements to ensure alignment between customer expectations and technology capabilities.

• Develop, test, and implement technology solutions, reporting on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected.

• Conduct Proof of Concepts to validate technology concepts and trends.

• Identify areas for improvement and suggest solution roadmaps to bridge any gaps.

• Assist country architects in the review of design and assessment of solutions.

• Partner with the DevOps owner to advance Engineering Excellence practices and provide guidance to the development team.

We are looking for someone with: 

• Strong leadership in technology, innovation, and team development.

• Deep understanding of business strategy and the ability to craft software, platform, and infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.

• Extensive knowledge of application architecture and digital concepts, practices, and tools.

• Strong knowledge and expertise in security architecture.

• Broad knowledge of architectural frameworks and the ability to produce effective design principles.

• Experience with Microservice and API-based architectures.

• Awareness of industry technology trends and DevOps experience.

• Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other software engineering best practices to accelerate the delivery and quality of new features.

• Ability to quickly comprehend new technologies and assess their potential impact and value for the organization.

• Extensive knowledge of the insurance business, systems, and processes is a plus.

• Experience with legacy transformation is a plus.

• Ability to balance multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit 

• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes 

• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together

• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters 

• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up

• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone 

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.

• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.

• A focus on growing your career path with us.

• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.

• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

• Values-first culture
  We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.

• Boundless opportunity
  We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.

• Continuous innovation
  We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.

• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

• Championing Corporate Citizenship
  We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

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 [email protected].

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