Senior Data Architect

Manulife / John Hancock is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead and shape the data architecture strategy within the U.S. Segment.

In this role, the Senior Data Architect will be responsible for defining enterprise-wide standards, frameworks, and governance models that promote consistency, scalability, and regulatory compliance across data platforms and initiatives.

• Leads the development and implementation of data integration and migration strategies for large datasets.
• Designs and architects highly scalable data pipelines to load data from various source systems.
• Designs, architects, and maintains data models, data warehouses, and data lakes optimized for scalability and performance.
• Designs data architecture and IT solutions to ensure data is stored properly, usable by business units, and protected from attacks.
• Optimizes data solutions for performance and scalability, utilizing techniques such as data partitioning, distributed processing, and data compression.
• Identifies the needs of the data lakes and data warehouses, the data that is available, and creates a blueprint for creating, testing and maintaining them.
• Works with database administrators and data analysts to ensure they can easily use and access data.
• Works with management to create databases that will be usable and store the required information.
• Addresses issues with data migration (e.g., validation, clean-up and mapping) and understands the importance of Data Dictionaries.
• Documents data architectures, technical processes, and performance optimization strategies.
• Documents data interfaces and movement which includes frequency of movement, data transformations, and any aggregation or calculations.
• Integrates views of data by working with business team members and application designers to determine data requirements (e.g., availability, volumes).
• Defines data architecture standards and guidelines, and how to use the architected databases.
• Helps ensure a focus on data quality, working closely with business team members to determine its importance.
• Software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business strategy and outcomes.
• Defines the overall integration of Data and ML pipelines across the data supply chain and defines the technical and operational design of these pipelines.
• Implements mechanisms to monitor and prevent unethical use of data, such as bias in algorithms or discriminatory practices.

• Experience architecting, designing and developing large-scale data solutions and enterprise-wide systems
• Strong knowledge of data management skills (e.g., Hadoop, No
  
  SQL, Spark), metadata management, big data management
• Expert knowledge of structured analysis and design techniques
• Knowledge across data technology stack (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, Python, Synapse)
• Strong understanding of data management, from RDBMS to No
  
  SQL data models
• Knowledge of ETL and data integration tools and technologies
• Software development experience using multiple languages (e.g., Python, Java, C, C++, C#)
• Understanding of logical designs of how databases will link to each other and the flow of data between stages
• Ability to use AI to support data management strategies.

• Provides professional advice – takes a lead role of process or program execution
• Is accountable for own work and contributes to setting standards through expertise in own job discipline that impact others’ deliverables
• Work is guided by cascaded policies or business plans
• May lead medium to large size projects or work streams with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity with multiple teams representing different interests

• Data Governance
• Data Warehousing
• Data Modeling
• Data Visualization
• Cloud Computing
• Programming Languages
• Performance Optimization
• Data Security
• Data Integration

• Industry experience from large complex financial Org is highly desired

• 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…