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About the Role
Prospr is Sun Life's digital front door for Canadians, revolutionizing how Canadians access insurance and wealth solutions by building a platform for online or advisor-assisted purchases. As Engineering Manager - Advisor Experience, you will lead the squad responsible for building advisor experiences, Salesforce integrations, business workflows, and internal capabilities that support advisor-led and advisor-assisted sales processes. You will be accountable for the squad's delivery, people development, and execution quality, balancing hands-on technical contribution with people leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead sprint execution and delivery commitments with full accountability
- Translate product requirements and sales workflows into clear, executable engineering work
- Own the delivery of advisor experiences and Salesforce integrations that support advisor-led and advisor-assisted sales
- Partner with Advisors, sales operations, and business stakeholders to improve internal workflows and capabilities
- Directly manage developers—hiring, performance, growth, engagement, and career development
- Enforce engineering standards and code quality within your squad
- Stay technically credible—code when needed and lead technical discussions
- Build and maintain a healthy squad culture aligned with Accelerator principles
- Remove blockers and manage dependencies with other squads, enterprise teams, and vendors
- Own day-to-day delivery coordination with Product, Design, and other squads
- Balance technical debt with feature delivery—make the trade-offs
- Operate with startup velocity—fast iterations, continuous deployment, data-driven decisions
Requirements
- Experienced engineer ready to lead people or current Engineering Manager from a product-focused tech company
- Startup mindset—know how to ship fast and iterate based on data
- Comfortable balancing people management and hands-on technical work – lead by setting the example
- Strong at sprint planning, estimation, and execution in an Agile environment
- Comfortable having tough conversations about performance, growth, and accountability
- Detail-oriented without losing sight of business outcomes
- Able to context-switch between code reviews, 1:1s, and stakeholder management
- Protective of your team's time and focus while maintaining high throughput
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an Engineering Manager (or equivalent team leadership) role
- Experience leading a single squad/team end-to-end
- Hands-on experience with CRM platforms (Salesforce preferred), including building and integrating CRM-based workflows
- Strong knowledge of sales processes (e.g., lead management, pipeline stages, quoting, application, and advisor handoffs)
- Demonstrated ability to run team-level execution and improve delivery predictability
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers
- Technical credibility to guide design and implementation
- Proven partnership with Product, Design, and business stakeholders
Skills
- AI
- Salesforce integrations
- Java
- React
- Agile environment
Location
- In office 2–3 days per week
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years in an Engineering Manager (or equivalent team leadership) role
Salary/Compensations
- 100,000 - 143,000
Benefits
- High-Impact Work
- Leadership Opportunity: help shape team structures, engineering practices, delivery processes, and how we measure success
- Autonomy and Ownership
- Learn and Grow Fast
- Collaborative, Innovative Culture
- Flexible Workstyle
About the Company
- At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
- Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.
- When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.
- Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
- Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.
- We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.
- We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
- We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.