Director, Global Risk Data and Analytics

Are you looking for unlimited opportunities to develop and succeed Global Risk Intelligence and Technology (GRIT) team accelerates digital enablement across the enterprise by building and scaling data driven platforms analytics and technology capabilities that support consistent and effective enterprise risk management supporting business units in North America Asia and Europe. The information generated by our programs is used to make critical business decisions and allows the Board Risk Committee to effectively oversee risk-taking activities within Manulife.

Reporting to the Head of Global Risk AI and EDL the Director is accountable for the strategy design and ongoing evolution of Global Risks enterprise data products and platforms. This role owns the Global Risk Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) as a data product ensuring it delivers trusted scalable and decision grade data to power analytics regulatory reporting risk measurement and AI driven insights across all Global Risk functions. This is a senior product owning leadership role with end-to-end accountability for data outcomes including data architecture prioritization of investment data quality governance and value realization. The Director operates as an owner for Risk data products partnering closely with Technology Enterprise Architecture Data Office and Risk leadership to translate risk strategy into durable data capabilities.

Position Responsibilities:
The incumbent owns the strategy and execution of the multi-year Global Risk EDL roadmap partnering with Technology the Global Data Office and Risk leaders to deliver consistent governed and analytics ready data that enables effective oversight and insight across Global Risk.
Data Product Ownership & Strategy
o Own the vision strategy and multi-year roadmap for Global Risk data products including the Enterprise Data Lake and downstream curated data assets.
o Act as Product Owner for the Risk data platform with clear accountability for value delivery data usability quality and adoption across Risk functions.
o Define and prioritize data products and capabilities based on business impact regulatory needs and AI enablement balancing near term outcomes with long term architectural integrity.
o Establish clear success measures for Risk data products including data quality timeliness reusability scalability and decision impact.

Enterprise Data Alignment & Enablement
o Set the target state architecture for Global Risk data ensuring alignment with enterprise standards while addressing domain specific risk requirements.
o Drive the design and evolution of curated governed analytics ready data layers that enable advanced analytics risk measurement and AI use cases.
o Ensure Risk data products are AI ready supporting ML NLP and GenAI initiatives through high quality well modeled and well governed data assets.
o Make senior level trade off decisions across data modeling ingestion patterns tooling and technical debt with a focus on long term sustainability.

Data Governance & Quality
o Be accountable for data quality lineage and transparency across Global Risk data products partnering with the Data Governance on governance frameworks.
o Embed quality controls metadata and monitoring directly into data products rather than treating governance as a separate process.
o Ensure Risk data assets meet internal governance expectations and external regulatory and audit requirements.
o Establish and evolve the product operating model for Risk data including how demand is shaped prioritized and delivered with Technology partners.

Leadership & Executive Influence
o Operate as a thought leader for Risk data and analytics influencing senior Risk and Technology leaders on how data enables better risk decisions.
o Translate complex data and technology concepts into clear executive level narratives enabling informed prioritization and investment decisions.
o Represent Global Risk in enterprise level data AI and architecture forums as the accountable owner for the Risk data domain.
o Build strong durable partnerships across Risk Technology and the Data Office to ensure aligned execution and shared ownership of outcomes.

Required Qualifications:
10 years of Senior level leadership experience owning enterprise scale data products and making strategic data and architecture decisions with broad organizational impact.
Advanced degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering Physics Mathematics Finance or a related field
Deep expertise in enterprise data engineering and platforms including large scale data lakes analytics- and/or AI ready architectures.
Strong domain knowledge in risk management within financial services or insurance including regulatory governance and risk data requirements.
Hands on familiarity with modern data and AI ecosystems (e.g. Azure Data Lake Databricks Synapse Purview ML/OpenAI services) sufficient to set direction and challenge design choices.
Demonstrated experience in data governance quality lineage and metadata management using enterprise tooling such as Informatica or equivalent.
Strong analytical and technical grounding (e.g. SQL Python data modeling ETL and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau) to drive actionable insights.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align diverse teams around a common data and product vision.
Excellent collaboration communication and relationship building skills with sound judgment and executive presence.
Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic fast changing environment adapting quickly to evolving priorities.

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.

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Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.