# Lead Business Analyst & Functional Architect

**Company**: Manulife Financial Corporation
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Business Analyst & Functional Architect to define, maintain and apply Regional Design Principles, create and manage design principles and standards aligned to the group strategy and objectives.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Act as the Design Authority in conjunction with Product Owners, Delivery Leads and Solution Architects

- Define and maintain the functional architecture and oversee the creation of valuable and usable artefacts

- Champion Customer Experience and Customer Journey maps

- Ensure integration points between platforms are enabled

- Apply AI skills and promote AI-enabled ways of working

- Maintain awareness of external best practices

- Assist in transition and change management

- Collaborate with multi-cultural, multi-location teams and cross-functional working with teams from other business areas

**Additional Responsibilities:**

- Lead and develop the Business Analyst community

- Promote Subject Matter Expertise for a specific business area or business capability

- Proactively challenge the business approach, solution design or value focus

- Contribute to Change Management design and delivery

- Identify opportunities to enhance transformation capabilities

- Identify new ways of working

- Enhance team maturity

- Line management for BAs

**Requirements:**

- Degree holder in Business Administration, Information Systems/Technology or related discipline

- Ideally experience in a Business Architecture or Solution Architecture role

- Minimum 12 years of solid business analysis experiences in Financial Services

- Strong people manager preferable or recognized experience in managing teams of people

- Experience in insurance distribution, operations or digital projects would be an advantage

- Practical experience in both Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches

- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, strong communicator at all business levels

**What We Offer:**

- Empowerment to learn and grow your career

- Flexible environment with well-being and inclusion

- Opportunity to shape the future you want to see

## Skills

### Required
- Business Analysis
- Functional Architecture
- Design Principles
- Customer Experience
- AI
- Agile
- Waterfall

### Nice to have
- Insurance Distribution
- Operations
- Digital Projects
- Team Management

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