Principal Enterprise Architect

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Principal Enterprise Architect to join Manulife’s Global Wealth and Asset Management Enterprise Architecture team.

Responsibilities

• Owning enterprise scale web platform architecture across multiple secure portals, personas, and regulatory domains
• Defining and governing web shell architectures that provide consistent navigation, identity integration, accessibility, and shared capabilities
• Designing and operationalizing micro frontend architectures, including module federation, runtime composition, isolation, and versioning strategies
• Establishing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns that secure browser interactions and protect tokens
• Designing experience layer and mediation patterns that normalize APIs, identity, terminology, and business rules
• Engineering WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility by design at the shell and platform level across distributed teams
• Embedding Agentic AI capabilities into web experiences, such as AI assisted navigation, personalization, and workflow augmentation
• Creating channel aware architectures that differentiate advisor web, customer web, and mobile usage patterns
• Driving long term platform vision and roadmaps while delivering incremental architecture that enables value today
• Publishing reference architectures, standards, and guardrails that enable reuse and convergence
• Mentoring and growing technologists across platform, product, and architecture teams

Requirements

• Deep experience with modern web platforms, including React-based ecosystems and micro-frontend delivery models
• Strong hands-on knowledge of OAuth2 / OIDC, CIAM, multi-realm federation, and delegated (act-on-behalf) authorization
• Practical expertise in domain, cookie, and browser security architecture, including SameSite policies and CORS
• Exposure to Agentic AI or AI-assisted systems integrated into customer- or advisor-facing platforms
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, including security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Experience working in highly regulated environments, ensuring privacy, accessibility, and audit readiness by design
• Able to influence cross-divisional decisions without direct authority
• A strong software engineering and/or enterprise architecture background