Senior Cloud Architect – AI & Modernization

Job summary

Manulife is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the evolution of their application landscape toward cloud-native, AI-enabled platforms. This role involves modernizing complex application environments, designing scalable, resilient, and intelligent cloud solutions, and shaping architecture patterns.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and modernizing applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, including containers, serverless, and event-driven systems.
• Experience supporting application transformation beyond basic infrastructure migration.
• Ability to work across application, platform, and data layers to solve complex architecture challenges.
• Strong communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working directly with engineering teams on system design and modernization initiatives.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cloud-native architecture patterns for 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 for consistent adoption.
• 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.

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