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

Job Description

Introduction

Are you excited about helping to develop solutions that really make a difference in an organization? ... Then this is the opportunity you've been looking for. We are looking for an energetic, self-motivated individual to join our team of highly skilled Data / Database Engineers, dedicated to accelerating the adoption of data and database engineering solutions across Manulife.  As part of our team, you would be contributing to a community driven project which is focused on removing roadblocks and empowering teams, developing cloud-based solutions and implementations, simplifying adherence to security standards, and promoting best practices.

Qualifications

Data and Database Engineering is an ever-changing landscape of technologies - as such, we are not looking for a specific set of qualifications, but rather a successful candidate would likely be able to demonstrate most (if not all) of the following:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant field.2-5+ years of experience architecting scalable distributed systems2+ years of experience in Data EngineeringA general understanding of enterprise database systems, with hands on experience using one or more database technologies (Azure Sql database, Azure Sql managed instance, Mongo DB Atlas, Cosmos DB or Oracle).Experience with automated deployments, CI/CD pipelines and/or DevOps technologies such as Jenkins Pipelines, Azure DevOps, Git Actions, Flyway etc.A desire to extend your understanding of cloud and the ability to learn through experimentation.Experience with Infrastructure as Code and/or scripted infrastructure deployments (Terraform experience preferred).Experience developing modern applications in at least one programming language (Java, Python, .Net, Go, Java script, power shell …etc.)Experience collaborating on and/or managing code in a source code versioning system (Git, Bitbucket, etc.)A proactive, solutions-focused, collaborative approach to problem solving.A customer focused mindset, and a genuine desire to contribute to a community-based project.While not necessarily required, a sense of humor is always a plus.

Are You Right for this position?

You tell us! You’ll notice the list of qualifications is a little vague - that’s intentional because our team is continuously evolving, and we don’t want to miss out on a great candidate just because their resume didn’t include the right set of acronyms. If you are excited about this opportunity and think you are a good fit for our team - we want to hear from you.

Our commitment to you

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 ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ 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 recruitment@manulife.com.