Job Description

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid



Join our Group Benefits Technology Team!

We are looking for a Solution Architect to drive our technical strategy and roadmaps in collaboration with other technical engineers and leaders within the team.

Accountabilities:

• Responsible for architectural design, issues, and solutions considerations; apply industry best practices to build scalable and secure solutions that have outstanding technical performance.
• Responsible for product architectural design, issues, and solutions considerations for value streams.
• Assists with the design of application architectures.
• Crafts templates and solution components for software and platform engineers to use.
• Fixes mis-specified component architectures and course corrects.
• Has a positive impact on specific organizational entities.
• Works across small to medium-sized teams with a common purpose of setting guidelines and clarifying outcomes.

How will you create an impact?

You will directly own and be accountable for a set of assets in Manulife\'s Group Benefits IT portfolio. You will design solution architecture and compose product roadmaps to guide the engineering teams in crafting products that are strategically aligned and operationally ready.

• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.
• Evaluate and build a network of third-party suppliers.
• Consolidate resources in specific areas of capability building.
• Attends ongoing training sessions and is certified in multiple domains of expertise.
• Demonstrates all core skills and good interpersonal skills for the role.
• Ability to mentor and lead other junior engineers and technologists.
• Good working and background knowledge of the area of practice.
• Introduces new developments and innovation into technical subject area within the segment.
• Use and combine knowledge of the field and leading market trends to formulate the right approach.
• Fit-for-purpose solutions, tailored to business needs.
• Links actions to longer-term goals and strategy.
• Understands the corporate climate & culture.
• Collaborative approach to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills, and methods.
• Constantly learns from both success and failure.
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to lead through creative abrasion.
• Good verbal and written communication; able to articulate the technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.
• Experiments with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Cloud providers, particularly Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in data modeling & Microservices architectures.
• Experience in event/message-driven solution architecture.
• The ability to drive business requirements and non-functional requirements.
• Experience in Canary deployments, 0-downtime, 0-data loss, active-active DR.
• Exposure to and an understanding of Agile scrum methodologies and experience working in an Agile team.
• Experience using diagramming tools such as Lucidchart and Visio.
• Understanding of collaboration tools like Slack, Skype, Teams, and JIRA.
• Engineering background in node.js, React, C#/.NET.
• Experience in Health Insurance.

What can we offer:

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

Our commitment:

Values-first culture
We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.

Boundless opportunity
We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.

Continuous innovation
We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.

Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

Championing Corporate Citizenship
We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, 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. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as \xe2\x80\x98MFC\xe2\x80\x99 on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under \xe2\x80\x98945\xe2\x80\x99 in Hong Kong.

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 .

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location Waterloo, 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 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 for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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