Senior Cloud Architect - AI & Modernization - manulife

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 skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Comfort working directly with engineering teams on real-world system design and modernization initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience applying AI or automation to support system analysis, modernization, or architecture decisions

Familiarity with microservices and distributed system design

Exposure to tools such as Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code frameworks

Experience working in large-scale or regulated environments

When you join our team:

We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.