Software Engineer, Global Engineering Transformation

Join our Global Engineering Transformation team and help redefine how we deliver technology across the enterprise. We’re on a mission to empower our technology partners to accelerate innovation and delivery through modern software practices, cloud-native development, and a culture of continuous learning.

You’ll be part of a dynamic team that collaborates across technology segments to deliver training while building scalable, impactful technical lab experiences. You’ll gain hands-on experience with cloud platforms, modern development tools, and new technologies while contributing to real-world projects that drive business value.

Position Responsibilities:

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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 new 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 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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!

When you join our team:

We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.