Senior Data Solution Architect
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Job Summary
Senior Data Solution Architect - Asia Data Office
Join the Asia Data Office as a Senior Data Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of scalable standardized and reusable data solutions. This role is ideal for individuals with deep expertise in data modeling and architecture a passion for reducing technical debt and the ability to bridge functional teams to deliver cohesive data platforms. You will also mentor junior staff and supervise contingent workers to ensure best practices are consistently applied.
Position Responsibilities:
Provide deep expertise in conceptual logical and physical data modeling. Drive architectural decisions that reduce technical debt and increase standardization and reusability across platforms.
Act as a bridge between business engineering and analytics teams to ensure cohesive and scalable data solutions aligned with strategic goals.
Mentor junior engineers and supervise contingent workers ensuring adherence to best practices in data engineering and architecture.
Design and implement enterprise-grade data platforms using modern architecture patterns such as data lakehouse data mesh and event-driven systems.
Support the development of automated data pipelines and CI/CD practices using tools like dbt Apache NiFi and custom frameworks.
Architect solutions across cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and big data ecosystems (Hadoop Spark Hive Kafka) leveraging services like Databricks BigQuery Synapse and Snowflake.
Document architecture designs metadata management data lineage and ensure compliance with data governance and security standards (e.g. GDPR HIPAA).
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems Data Science Engineering or a related field.
710 years in data architecture data engineering or related roles.
Experience with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data platforms.
Data Modeling: Conceptual logical physical models; normalization/denormalization.
Database Technologies: SQL (PostgreSQL MySQL) NoSQL (MongoDB Cassandra) Graph DBs (Neo4j).
ETL/ELT Tools: Informatica Talend dbt Apache NiFi custom pipelines.
Big Data Ecosystem: Hadoop Spark Hive Kafka.
Cloud Platforms: AWS Azure GCP Databricks BigQuery Synapse Snowflake.
Programming: Python Scala Java or similar for data engineering tasks.
Architecture Patterns: Data lakehouse data mesh event-driven architecture microservices.
Strong understanding of business strategy and how data supports it.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
Cloud: AWS Certified Data Analytics Azure Data Engineer Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Data Management: CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional)
Architecture: TOGAF DAMA-DMBOK
Data Governance & Security: Metadata management data lineage access control compliance (GDPR HIPAA)
When you join our team:
Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.
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 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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Business Process
- VMware
- Cloud
- HTML5
- Windows
- Project managements
- AWS
- Infrastructure
- Web Services
- JQuery
- Java
- Computer Engineering
- Solutions design
- Technical Solutions
- Analytics
About Company
Manulife is a leading financial services group. We provide financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions.
