Senior Manager, Solution Architect

Location: Toronto/Winnipeg IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.

Division: Technology Location: Toronto/Winnipeg IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments. Founded in 1926, IG Wealth Management is a key part of IGM's business model, providing comprehensive wealth management services to Canadian financial advisors and their clients. With a vision to inspire financial confidence, IG Wealth Management is recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top 100 Employers, and Best Diversity Employers, aiming to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals. Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive environment. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues Our Values: Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.

Overall, Job Purpose

The Sr Manager, Architect is accountable for end-to-end solution architecture for major initiatives. Translates business and application needs into architecture patterns, systems interactions, and technology choices. The role owns solution architecture outcomes for assigned initiatives, ensures alignment to enterprise standards, Objectives and Key Results, and non‑functional requirements (e.g., security, scalability, resilience), and provides design oversight throughout build and implementation to ensure architectural integrity and delivery readiness. This role contributes directly to delivery success within the delivery model by enabling speed and autonomy through clear architectural direction, while ensuring solutions conform to governance, risk, and compliance guardrails.

Key Accountabilities

• Owns solution architecture for major initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, Objectives and Key Results, and non‑functional requirements.
• Translating business and application needs into architecture patterns, system interaction models, integration approaches, and technology selections.
• Provide architectural oversight during build to ensure integrity.
• Collaborate with delivery and enabling roles to ensure seamless integration and operational readiness.
• Ensure architectural readiness for production including considerations for non-functional requirements, costs and operational support.
• Apply approved architecture standards, patterns, and review practices. Support use of AI‑assisted practices (e.g., documentation generation, architecture modelling or simulation) in a controlled and governed manner.
• Participate in architecture chapter activities (e.g., standards, patterns, knowledge sharing, and peer reviews) to strengthen practice consistency and delivery effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Post‑secondary degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Prior experience operating as a solution architect or systems designer on complex initiatives.
• Demonstrated capability across solution architecture disciplines, including application, data, integration, cloud, and security design.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to guide delivery outcomes through influence and technical leadership.

Preferred

• Experience within the financial services industry, including banking, wealth management, insurance, or asset management environments.
• Experience working with or supporting delivery involving:
  • Salesforce
  • SAP Data Platform (including SAP data management and analytics capabilities)
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • Adobe CDP and AJO
• Experience working in a product operating model or pod-based delivery environment.
• Proven success working with geographically dispersed and cross-functional teams, coordinating across multiple regions and time zones.

Benefits

• COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION: competitive base salary, performance‑weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
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