Director, Digital Software Engineering

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.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Join our Group Benefits Team!

We are looking for a Director of Software Engineering based out of Manulife’s Toronto or Waterloo office who will help lead a Group Benefits Technology Team responsible for Digital Products.

What motivates you?

• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone
• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together
• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes

We Are Looking For Someone With

• Multiple contexts and engineering languages.
• Strong relationship-building skills to build effective working relationships with business unit leaders.
• Experience with digital health businesses, services, platforms and / or assets
• Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.
• Confidence, maturity and credibility to deliver and present to AVP+ audiences
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features.
• Strong communication skills, including ability to translate complex technical solutions into fundamental concepts.
• Prioritizes efficient code production by using open-source frameworks and patterns.
• Familiar with platform technologies, modern software architectures and API-driven development, and scripting languages.
• Working knowledge on any of the following: Languages such as JavaScript, React/Redux, NodeJS, GraphQL, Kafka and/or similar technologies
• 5+ years leading engineering teams and building diverse and inclusive engineering culture where team members are highly collaborative and willing to learn and grow.
• Experiments with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next.
• 8-10 years related engineering experience with expectation that you are a hands-on practitioner.
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle and how technology supports business strategy.

On The Job You Will

• Drive our hiring and recruiting efforts as applicable for our diverse teams.
• Coaching and Mentoring junior engineers.
• Lead engineering efforts in Manila including working closely with the leadership team to progressively mature our practices and continually improve all aspects of the software delivery process with the aim to progressively augment the velocity of the team. This includes the ongoing management /of team performance, adherence to best practices and non-functional areas such as security, reliability.
• Encouraging a high-performance engineering culture that embodies Manulife’s values.
• Act as a local brand ambassador to establish Manulife as a destination for tech talent.
• Work in close partnership with other segment technology leadership team to embed the right hiring, agile and engineering practices.

What Can We Offer

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

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 partners 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].

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location

CAN, Ontario, Toronto, 250 Bloor Street East

Salary range is expected to be between

$105,070.00 CAD - $195,130.00 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.