Division: Technology – Business & Data Platforms

Location: Toronto/Winnipeg

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.

Founded in 1926, IG Wealth Management is a key part of IGM's business model, providing comprehensive wealth management services to Canadian financial advisors and their clients.

With a vision to inspire financial confidence, IG Wealth Management is recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top 100 Employers, and Best Diversity Employers, aiming 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.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a strategic and transformational technology and data leader to join IGM Financial as Vice President, Data & Integration Platforms. This newly created leadership role will be responsible for defining, governing, modernizing, and evolving IGM’s enterprise data and integration ecosystem as part of the organization’s transition to a product-based delivery model.

Reporting to the SVP, Head of Business & Data Platforms, the VP, Data & Integration Platforms will lead the strategy, roadmap, governance, adoption, and operational excellence of enterprise data and integration capabilities across portfolios and platforms. This role is accountable not only for enabling platform capabilities, but for driving measurable enterprise adoption and business value realization across pods and portfolios. This leader will play a critical role in enabling business outcomes through scalable data platforms, reusable integration capabilities, enterprise governance, and modern data management practices.

The role operates at the center of a complex, federated ecosystem, leading cross-platform alignment and resolving enterprise-level trade-offs across speed, risk, cost, and modernization priorities, while shaping IGM’s future AI-ready data foundation through the evolution of enterprise platforms and operating practices to support intelligent automation, agentic AI, enterprise copilots, advanced analytics, and scalable AI-enabled workflows.

Operating within a federated delivery model, the role will partner closely with distributed data and engineering pods across the technology organization to establish, govern, and continuously improve enterprise standards, integration patterns, data quality practices, and reusable platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy, Platform Ownership & Adoption

Define and execute the enterprise vision, strategy, and roadmap for data and integration platforms aligned with business outcomes. Own platform vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities. Drive adoption of reusable APIs, shared data services, metadata standards, and governance practices. Own and drive measure adoption of enterprise data and integration platforms across portfolios and pods, including defining and tracking success metrics (eg. reuse, onboarding, API consumption).

Data & Integration Governance / Quality / Interoperability

Own enterprise-wide data and integration governance standards, quality controls, and operating practices. Ensure enterprise data quality, accessibility, interoperability, and standardization across all platforms to support analytics, AI, and business decision-making. Oversee platform performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Ensure data and integration platform standards align with enterprise regulatory requirements, data governance policies, and incident response protocols.

Delivery, Modernization & Trade-Off Leadership

Lead modernization of enterprise data and integration capabilities to support AI-enabled and product-oriented delivery. Balance delivery velocity with governance, risk management, and platform stability, making explicit trade-offs between speed, control, cost, and modernization priorities. Own enterprise-level decisions related to technical debt prioritization, cost optimization, and platform investment trade-offs.

Enterprise Partnership & Dependency Management

Partner with business, technology, architecture, infrastructure, security, and AI & Value Delivery teams to align priorities and delivery outcomes.

Ready Data Foundations

Build and evolve enterprise capabilities supporting AI-ready architectures, intelligent automation, semantic enablement, and agentic AI capabilities. Partner with AI & Value Delivery to align data platform evolution with emerging AI, analytics, and automation demands, including identification of resulting technical debt, cost, and risk implications.

Leadership & Platform Accountability

Lead, coach, and develop high-performing technical leaders and platform specialists across the Data & Integration platform. Own platform capacity planning, including workforce strategy, resource allocation across pods, and capability development aligned to enterprise demand.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Collaborates Cross-Functionally Leads with Resilience & Agility through Change Champions AI-Enabled Ways of Working Encourages Reusability and Efficiency Communicates with Clarity and Influence

Required Experience & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Data Management, or a related discipline or equivalent experience. 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise data, integration, platform engineering, or technology delivery roles. Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data and integration platforms within complex, highly regulated environments. Deep expertise in enterprise data management, integration architecture, governance, APIs, metadata management, and operational practices. Demonstrated ability to lead enterprise trade-offs across risk, cost, delivery velocity, and modernization in a federated operating model. Experience driving platform adoption and influencing distributed engineering teams without direct authority. Strong understanding of cloud-native data technologies, event-driven architectures, platform engineering, and enterprise data ecosystems. Experience modernizing enterprise data platforms to support AI-enabled capabilities and intelligent automation. Knowledge of emerging technologies including agentic AI, generative AI orchestration, enterprise copilots, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled platform capabilities. Proven success leading transformation initiatives and federated operating models. Excellent executive communication and presentation skills.

LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

Operate as a strategic enterprise partner focused on measurable business outcomes. Lead through influence, collaboration, and accountability across matrixed teams. Drive simplification, modernization, and scalability across the enterprise technology landscape. Foster innovation, continuous improvement, and responsible AI adoption. Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders and provide clear, data-driven recommendations.

SUCCESS PROFILE

Success In This Role Will Be Defined By

Measurable platform adoption across portfolios and pods Increased reuse of data services and APIs Improved data quality, accessibility, and interoperability Reduction in duplication and technical debt Strong alignment across business, technology, and AI transformation priorities

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.

IG is an accessible employer committed to providing a barrier- free recruitment experience. If you require an 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.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience to https://www.ig.ca/en/careers

Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.

We thank all applicants for their interest in IG Wealth Management; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please apply before July 17 2026