Technical Leader, Insurance Technology

1 week ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Company 1 - The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company Full time
About Us
Company 1 - The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. Our global headquarters are in Toronto, Canada, and 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. Our assets under management and administration exceeded $1.3 trillion, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion.

We trade on the Toronto, New York, and Philippine stock exchanges, and under '945' in Hong Kong.

We're committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

About the Role
We're seeking a self-motivated Technical Leader who's obsessed with delivering value, forward-thinking, and excited to see the successful implementation of products, frameworks, and patterns delivered.

This role offers you the opportunity to lead multi-functional engineering teams dedicated to building and supporting Insurance Technology systems, redesigning and building client-facing technology systems in support of our Insurance and Affinity business in Canada, and assisting squads with Tier 2 and 3 support under the application criticality framework.

Your Responsibilities
You'll employ re-usable and extensible frameworks, reference implementations, and patterns to build new functionality and deliver on key product objectives. You'll also maintain and support these services, with accountability for production reliability and usage, and the delivery of new functionality.

What We Offer
A competitive salary, between $107,730.00 CAD and $200,070.00 CAD annually, based on location, plus 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 includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.

Required Skills and Qualifications
You'll bring a deep, hands-on background in modern software development and practices, and have experience leading teams or large-scale programs, with a preference for Financial or Insurance industry experience.

Strong project management skills, agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features are essential.

You'll also be passionate about developing engineers and growing staff within the organization, experimenting with emerging technologies, and understanding how they'll impact what comes next.

Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities will enable you to manage through creative abrasion, and strong verbal and written communication skills will allow you to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes across all levels in the organization.

The Team Works with the Following Technology
Languages such as React, NodeJS, AKS, and Azure platform, open source As we accelerate our delivery of world-class experiences, we know embracing open source technologies will help us get there.

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