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About the Role

Shape the technical direction for your area, lead complex engineering programs across multiple teams, and establish standards for how solutions are designed, built, tested, and operated. Deliver secure, reliable, and user-centred solutions that support business objectives, while translating business strategy into architectural and delivery decisions. Accountable for outcomes beyond your own deliverables, including the technical quality and coherence of solutions developed by others. Lead initiatives from concept through production support, make informed decisions where no established precedent exists, and influence senior technology and business leaders. Success requires recognized technical depth, sound judgement in ambiguous situations, and a genuine commitment to mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction for the design, development, testing, delivery, and continuous improvement of full-stack business applications.
Lead the design of user interfaces, databases, APIs, and server-side logic, ensuring coherent end-to-end architecture.
Establish disciplined coding practices, design patterns, automation, and semantic versioning standards that enable agility and high-quality delivery at scale.
Create and review detailed system design specifications that guide development across multiple workstreams and teams.
Define automated testing strategies and quality gates to ensure solutions meet established standards and user requirements.
Direct investigative spikes to reduce technical uncertainty and risk, and make the resulting architectural decisions.
Lead root-cause analysis for complex, cross-system defects and drive systemic improvements in efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.
Own the technical debt and modernization roadmap for the area and build support for the investment needed to deliver it.
Facilitate ideation, prototyping, and design sessions, documenting decisions and outcomes.
Set documentation standards for architecture decision records, runbooks, deployment, maintenance, and support, while ensuring effective knowledge transfer.
Lead peer-review practices and mentor engineers at different career levels to strengthen technical capability across the organization.
Represent the team’s technical position in architecture forums and with senior stakeholders and governance bodies.

Requirements

10+ years of experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer, including demonstrated experience leading technical delivery across multiple teams and owning solutions from design through production support.
Expertise in a significant range of the technologies listed below, with working knowledge across others. Candidates are not expected to have experience with every item; recognized depth in several areas and sound judgement in selecting appropriate technologies are most important.
Proven experience defining application and service architecture and influencing architectural decisions beyond your immediate team.
Demonstrated experience leading complex technical programs across multiple teams with competing priorities and interdependencies.
A track record of establishing engineering standards or best practices adopted beyond your immediate squad.
Experience mentoring and supporting the growth of engineers, including senior engineers.
Deep knowledge of Agile and DevOps principles, with practices that emphasize testing, continuous integration, and rapid, safe releases.
Expert-level foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical vision, options, trade-offs, and outcomes to engineers, senior stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
Sound judgement and accountability when making consequential decisions with incomplete information.

Skills

Java
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Python
C#
.NET
SQL
Spring Boot
Spring Security
Spring Data JPA/Hibernate
NestJS
Express.js
React
micro-frontends
enterprise component or design libraries
CSS
Tailwind
SCSS
React state management
React data fetching
Distributed systems
event-driven and asynchronous patterns
domain-driven design
API lifecycle and versioning
resilience and failure-mode design
Microservices
REST APIs/OpenAPI
Backend-for-Frontend
Azure API Management
Azure Event Hubs
Azure Service Bus
Microsoft SQL Server
Azure SQL
Azure Cosmos DB
MongoDB
Redis
Flyway
Microsoft Azure
Kubernetes/AKS
Docker
containers
Terraform
Helm
Kustomize
Maven
Gradle
npm
pnpm
Git/GitHub
GitHub Actions
release and change management
JUnit
Jest
Vitest
Playwright
Selenium
Bruno
REST Assured
SonarQube
test strategy definition
OAuth 2.0
OIDC
JWT
OWASP secure coding
dependency and CVE management tools
Snyk
PII and data protection
threat modelling
New Relic
Application Insights
structured logging and tracing
SLI/SLO definition
GitHub Copilot
prompt and context engineering
responsible-use standards
Next.js
Adobe Experience Manager
Spring Batch
Spring Cloud/Integration
Azure Functions
JMS
Databricks/Spark
Azure Data Factory
ETL
data pipelines
Azure Storage
KQL
Azure Data Explorer
Flux/GitOps
Istio service mesh
Azure Key Vault
Azure networking
Azure DNS
Azure WAF
z/OS Connect
DB2
batch file/SFTP integration
mainframe-fronting
strangler patterns
Xray test management
performance and load testing
chaos or resilience testing
Agentic development workflows
LLM application patterns
evaluation
guardrail design
platform migration
decommissioning initiative
large-scale modernization program
vendor evaluation
platform selection
strategic tool selection
regulated environment awareness
audit
control
compliance obligations
internal guilds or chapters
conference presentations
open-source work
published writing
formal architecture accreditation

Location

Waterloo, Ontario

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Lead
Senior

Salary/Compensations

$113,260.00 CAD - $210,340.00 CAD

Benefits

Opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.
Health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage.
Adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits.
Employee/family assistance plans.
Retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions).
Financial education and counseling resources.
Generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days.
Full range of statutory leaves of absence.

About the Company

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better.
Visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html for more information.

Equal Opportunity

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 hr@manulife.com.