Integration Architect

The Integration Architect shapes the strategy, standards, target-state architecture, and governance that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and reusable integration across the US Segment.

This role provides architectural leadership across APIs, services, events, messaging, streaming, batch, and hybrid integration, helping teams connect systems and exchange data consistently while reducing duplication and technical debt.

Working within the Domain Architecture team, you will establish reusable architecture patterns, guide critical design decisions, improve visibility across the integration landscape, and help delivery teams adopt interoperable, cloud-aligned integration solutions.

This is an opportunity to influence integration strategy and modernization across a complex technology environment while remaining closely connected to practical solution design and delivery outcomes.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the Integration Domain strategy, principles, standards, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state patterns, aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture direction.
• Develop multi-year integration roadmaps that connect business strategy, modernization priorities, technology investments, and architecture direction.
• Design and guide enterprise integration solutions spanning APIs and services, event-driven and batch integration, messaging and streaming, cloud and SaaS platforms, legacy modernization, data integration, and external partner connectivity.
• Establish and maintain a catalogue of reusable integration patterns, including synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven, streaming, and batch patterns, with clear guidance on their appropriate use.
• Promote modern integration approaches, including API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native patterns, with security, automation, operational resilience, and observability built into solution design.
• Maintain architecture visibility across critical integration interfaces, dependencies, technology lifecycles, and technical debt, using LeanIX or other approved enterprise repositories where appropriate.
• Provide architecture governance by reviewing solution designs, documenting Architecture Decision Records, assessing exceptions, and guiding solution architects and delivery teams toward consistent architecture outcomes.
• Evaluate emerging integration technologies, platforms, vendor solutions, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities, providing recommendations and identifying opportunities for modernization.
• Partner across application, data, security, cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, solution architecture, technology delivery, and business teams to resolve cross-domain dependencies and translate strategic priorities into executable integration capabilities.
• Conduct architecture quality reviews, provide reusable guidance and mentoring, and clearly communicate complex integration decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade integration solutions, typically gained through 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Progressive experience in integration, solution, or domain architecture, including responsibility for architecture strategies, roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
• Experience with one or more enterprise integration platforms or services, such as MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Informatica IICS, enterprise service bus technologies, Azure Data Factory, or comparable technologies.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise integration solutions using a combination of APIs and services, event-driven architecture, messaging, streaming, batch, middleware, and cloud integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of API architecture, management, and governance; REST and SOAP services; API contracts; asynchronous messaging and publish-subscribe patterns; microservices; and common interoperability standards.
• Working knowledge of common integration security patterns and standards, including technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML.
• Experience assessing integration platforms and capabilities, identifying gaps and technical debt, and translating findings into target-state architectures and practical, sequenced modernization roadmaps.
• Experience reviewing solution designs, documenting architecture decisions, and guiding teams through architecture standards, exceptions, and remediation.
• Knowledge of cloud and hybrid integration architecture and related delivery considerations, including CI/CD, security, resilience, monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear architecture artifacts and explain complex technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, containers, Kubernetes, scripting, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience modernizing legacy integration environments and introducing API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, automation-enabled, or operationally resilient integration patterns.
• Experience in one or more additional integration areas, such as mainframe, COTS or SaaS integration, external partner or B2B connectivity, data integration, or AI-enabled integration patterns.
• Experience working in a large, complex, or highly regulated organization, such as financial services, insurance, banking, wealth management, retirement, or another regulated industry.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

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. 

If you are applying to this role in US, please note the salary range is $107,450 to $199,550 USD. Additionally, employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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].

Referenced Salary Location

Toronto, OntarioHybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$113,000.00 CAD - $163,000.00 CAD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact [email protected] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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