We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today. 

Hybrid

Job Description

Join our Global Engineering Transformation team!

How will you contribute:

Be a part of our team that redefines how we get work done in collaboration of all Technology Segments. We are growing our Engineering Transformation Office to power extraordinary customer and employee experiences through software, platform, and engineering skills. We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to tackle critical problems for the business, which is why we need you.

We are seeking a senior engineer with strong ability to coach and lead trainings/presentations to segment partner teams/engineers; you are able to deliver values; with forward-thinking to see the successful implementation of the products we deliver.

• Champion the transformation of engineering staff within our team and other areas within Manulife by sharing your technical expertise as part of the Manulife University program. Specifically, this includes material creation and leading the delivery of up-skilling efforts.
• Prototype and build new functionality to deliver on key product objectives with strong and extendable architectural design.
• Advocate and influence the design principles which align with our global technology strategy and architecture including cloud, software development, AI etc.
• Partake in Engineering Transformation’s cloud environment life cycle.
• Be an active contributor in our various internal and external transformation events such as hackathons, demo days, tech talks, and external engineering recruitment campaigns.
• Exposure and opportunity to collaborate with SMEs/technical leaders across the organization, as well as other software engineers, architects, and operations engineers to uncover and showcase opportunities to deliver new business value through software.
• Mentorship of junior members of the team.

You will bring and continuously build upon the following skills:

• Embracing an entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working within a constantly evolving environment; you love the challenge of being part of a larger movement to change the engineering culture of an enterprise.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers with a focus for developing staff within the organization.
• Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes across all levels in the organization.
• Experimenting with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next.
• Building and deploying cloud-native applications into AKS (i.e. kubectl, docker images, helm charts, deployments, config maps and more!)
• Code and automate infrastructure using various technologies in Azure.
• Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features.
• Excellent leadership and mentorship abilities to coach and lead others.
• Ability to influence partners for enterprise adoption.
• Proven track record of leading artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) initiatives and fostering a responsible AI culture an asset.

You will be working with:

• Languages such as JavaScript, HTML5, React/TypeScript/Vue/Angular/.NET, Node, GraphQL, EventHub and/or similar technologies.
• Structured and non-structured data applications (MongoDB, Cosmos, Reddis)
• Cloud-native technologies and methodologies.
• Azure, cloud computing, Terraform scripting and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub actions).
• Microsoft Azure services incl. GitHub Copilot and Azure OpenAI.
• Open source! As we accelerate our delivery of world-class experiences, we know embracing open source technologies will help us get there. Any experience with open source is very attractive to us!

What can we offer?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

 

Our commitment to you:

Values-first culture 

We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. 

Boundless opportunity 

We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. 

Continuous innovation 

We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. 

Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. 

Championing Corporate Citizenship 

We build a business that benefits all collaborators and has a positive social and environmental impact.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law. 

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Waterloo, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between

$92,190.00 CAD - $171,210.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

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 [email protected] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.