Director, Architect - Investment Management/Fund Services

Job Description

Referral Level: Level 3

Mackenzie Investments

IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately$310billionin assetsas 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.

At Mackenzie Investments You Can Build Your Career with Confidence. We are 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.Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues!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.

Overall, Job Purpose

The Director, Architect sets architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services Pod and operates within the Investment Excellence Portfolio.

The role defines standards and patterns, guides target-state roadmaps and resolves cross-initiative and cross-solution architectural complexity (dependencies, integration, sequencing, and technical debt) to enable delivery through clear standards and guardrails. Translates enterprise standards into actionable guidance for modern, high-performance financial systems.

Key Accountabilities

• 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 (including technology guardrails).
• Define and evolve the Domain Target Architecture and target-state roadmap focusing on modernizing platforms for portfolio analytics, fund services, and data management and aligning sequencing and technology investments to multi-year priorities.
• Resolve complex cross-solution architectural issues (low latency data integration, system interoperability and dependencies between front, middle, and back-office platforms) 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 without direct people management.
• 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 (e.g., standards, patterns, knowledge sharing, and peer reviews) to strengthen practice consistency and capability maturity

Qualifications and Experience

• 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 (portfolio construction, quantitative modeling, order management) and middle-office (risk analytics, compliance) to back-office (NAV calculation, fund accounting).
• 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, including public global equities, fixed income, derivatives, and private markets.
• Previous experience working with Global Asset Managers and Market vendors such as CIBCM, BNY, Morningstar, Bloomberg, FactSet etc and the data associated with these systems and solutions.
• 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 (SQL Server, Oracle) and cloud data platforms like Google BigQuery or Snowflake.
• Experience designing high-performance analytics systems, with an awareness of parallel computing techniques (e.g., using NumPy, Pandas, multi-threading, NVIDIA CUDA for large-scale data processing)
• Fluent working in Jira, Confluence, Kanban and Sprint Boards
• Familiarity with leveraging AI agentic solutions (OpenClaw, AgentSH, etc.), MCP servers and prompt context optimization

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $162,500- $197,000, which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.

Benefits:

• COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION : competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
• EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE: competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short-term & long-term disability plans.
• RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS : voluntary Defined Contribution Pension Plan
• WORK LIFE BALANCE : paid volunteer days, competitive time off, including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangements.
• INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY : living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).

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 providingbarrier-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.