Senior Engineer/Product Owner – Data Governance Technology

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you.
Working Arrangement
Hybrid

The Opportunity
If you are seeking an exciting opportunity to grow your career in data in a great organization, and are passionate about data, we just might have the right role for you on our team! As a key member of the Data Enablement and Governance (DEG) function this engineering role is responsible for working with a team of analysts and engineers, engaging, and mobilizing global partners to ensure that data governance practices are embedded into key processes.
Responsibilities
Engineering- Data Governance and Management

• Design and build APIs to support bulk imports, updates, notifications, and governance of data assets across the ecosystem.
• Embed automated data quality monitoring and remediation into data ingestions and design standardized processes for consistency across teams.
• Hands-on experience in reporting, data and analytics use cases, leveraging cloud technologies
• Improve existing structures to enable self-serve options for business users

Strategic Data Governance

• Engage partners across the segments/Business lines to ensure data governance principles are applied across their use cases, and to drive adoption of standards, including (but not limited to) gathering and managing metadata, identifying CDEs and associated data domains, and personas
• Promote a data-driven culture through data literacy programs and communication
• Find opportunities and contribute to the development and roll-out of governance policies, practices, and standards
• Drive POCs to enable new and/or improved capabilities within the segment – data quality, access policies etc.
• Collaborate with Data Owners, Custodians and Stewards to ensure they understand their roles and responsibilities, providing advisory guidance and support to ensure Data Governance accountabilities are understood
• Support, coach, and lead engineers and analysts in adopting standard methodologies to support strategic data governance.
• Engage Architects in the integration and enterprise-wide use of Data Governance tools

Data cataloging and inventorying

• Ensure improved user experience on the data catalog to drive adoption across the segment, through technology-based solutions and user-friendly documentation to support self-serve
• Own the inventorying of raw and curated data sources and data elements, solving technical issues and surfacing risks, any change management requirements to streamline the process
• Enable view of lineage using a variety of tools

Access Governance

• Maintain and streamline internal tools used to lead and monitor data shares and accesses
• Contribute toward the implementation of access policies across the data ecosystem
• Classification of datasets in alignment with internal standards and policies

Measurement and reporting

• Support in the design and measurement of meaningful KPIs to showcase the progress and value enabled for the organization
• Build automated dashboards to report on these KPIs on an ongoing basis

What motivates you?

• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.
• 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.
• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to solve and solution for issues
• Experience in Data Management, including Remediation, Quality, Data Analysis and Remediation
• Hands-on experience with Azure Purview (highly desirable), or similar Data Governance tools
• Solid understanding of and experience with SQL, PowerBI, Python or R
• Experience redefining / curating data and building reports with the data
• Experience with Agile processes
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in Data and Analytics, Information Technology or Business Analysis roles
• Academic qualifications in Data & Analytics or STEM discipline a combination of experience and education
• Previous experience of working in a Financial Services Organization
• Good knowledge of and experience with Azure tech stack including Purview, Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks
• Experience with tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps to configure and build CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with collaboration tools like TEAMS, JIRA, Confluence

What can we offer you?

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

Our commitment to you

• Boundless opportunity: We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
• Championing Corporate Citizenship: We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.
• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
• Continuous innovation: We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
• Values-first culture: We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.

Every career at Manulife/John Hancock provides the opportunity to learn new skills and move your career forward. Ready to make an impact somewhere? What are you waiting for? Apply today.
About John Hancock And Manulife
John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were CAD$1.3 trillion (US$1.1 trillion) as of June 30, 2021. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at manulife.com.
One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including life insurance, annuities, investments, 401(k) plans, and education savings plans. Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com.
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
Toronto, Ontario
Salary range is expected to be between
$89,950.00 CAD - $167,050.00 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.