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About the Role

The Director, Architect sets architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services Pod and operates within the Investment Excellence Portfolio. This role defines standards and patterns, guides target-state roadmaps, and resolves cross-initiative and cross-solution architectural complexity to enable delivery through clear standards and guardrails, translating enterprise standards into actionable guidance for modern, high-performance financial systems.

Responsibilities

Set architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services pod to ensure alignment to enterprise standards, technology strategy, and business priorities.
Define and govern domain standards, patterns, and reference architectures and designs for building resilient, scalable, and secure buy-side applications.
Define and evolve the Domain Target Architecture and target-state roadmap focusing on modernizing platforms for portfolio analytics, fund services, and data management.
Resolve complex cross-solution architectural issues and drive pragmatic decisions on trade-offs and risk.
Guide and coach others, ensuring consistent application of architectural principles focused on secure high-performance engineering and quality expectations.
Identify architectural risk and technical debt and sponsor remediation and modernization plans from legacy systems to modern, cloud-native solutions.
Lead the design of data-centric solutions, ensuring auditable data lineage and robust governance for all financial calculations, trading decisions, and ledger adjustments.
Participate in architecture chapter activities to strengthen practice consistency and capability maturity.

Requirements

Extensive experience leading architecture across complex, enterprise-scale financial services portfolios (solution and/or domain).
Strong capability in governance, standards, target-state design, integration, and roadmap definition.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes across multiple teams without direct line authority.
Skilled in facilitating trade-offs and risk decisions while balancing strategic coherence with delivery pragmatism.
Architectural understanding of the end-to-end investment lifecycle, from front-office, middle-office, to back-office.
Strong knowledge of Wealth Management/Capital Markets and the Financial Services industry.
Experience with end-to-end technical solutions and business processes to support Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Institutional SMAs.
Knowledge of diverse asset classes and their data structures.
Previous experience working with Global Asset Managers and Market vendors and their associated data.
Previous experience with Accounting Book of Record and Investment Book of Record solutions and awareness of the technology stacks.
Experience delivering capabilities involving packaged / SaaS solutions.
Awareness of integration platforms including MuleSoft and/or others.
Awareness of the technology stack used in capital markets, investment and/or wealth management.
Advanced knowledge of enterprise data architecture, including relational databases and cloud data platforms.
Experience designing high-performance analytics systems, with an awareness of parallel computing techniques.
Fluent working in Jira, Confluence, Kanban and Sprint Boards.
Familiarity with leveraging AI agentic solutions, MCP servers and prompt context optimization.

Skills

Investment Management
Fund Services
Architecture
Enterprise Standards
Technology Strategy
Roadmap Definition
Resilient Design
Scalable Design
Secure Design
Buy-side Applications
Portfolio Analytics
Data Management
Low Latency Data Integration
System Interoperability
Front-office Systems
Middle-office Systems
Back-office Systems
Technical Debt Remediation
Cloud-Native Solutions
Data-Centric Solutions
Data Lineage
Data Governance
Financial Calculations
Trading Decisions
Ledger Adjustments
Architecture Chapters
Knowledge Sharing
Peer Reviews
Governance
Target-State Design
Integration
Stakeholder Influence
Risk Management
Wealth Management
Capital Markets
Financial Services Industry
Mutual Funds
ETFs
Institutional SMAs
Public Global Equities
Fixed Income
Derivatives
Private Markets
Global Asset Managers
Market Vendors
Accounting Book of Record
Investment Book of Record
Packaged Solutions
SaaS Solutions
MuleSoft
SQL Server
Oracle
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
High-Performance Analytics
Parallel Computing
NumPy
Pandas
Multi-threading
NVIDIA CUDA
Jira
Confluence
Kanban
Sprint Boards
AI Agentic Solutions
OpenClaw
AgentSH
MCP Servers
Prompt Context Optimization

Location

Toronto
Winnipeg

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director

Salary/Compensations

$162,500 - $180,000

Benefits

Competitive base salary
Performance-weighted bonus
Education/career support
Option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component
Competitive health and dental coverage
Flexible plan for you and your family
Short-term & long-term disability plans
Voluntary Defined Contribution Pension Plan
Paid volunteer days
Competitive time off
10 wellness days off
WorkPerks discount program
Hybrid & flex work arrangements
Engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background)

About the Company

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.
Mackenzie Investments, founded in 1967, is a key part of IGM's business model, serving as a comprehensive asset-management partner for Canadian financial advisors and their clients.
Mackenzie Investments is proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers.
Our vision and strategy aim 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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
Mackenzie Investments is an accessible employer committed to providing barrier-free recruitment experience. If you require accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.