Engineering Manager, Manulife Bank

We are seeking an Engineering Manager who is passionate about delivering meaningful outcomes and enabling teams to build high-quality scalable solutions. This role combines people leadership with technical guidance and is ideal for someone who enjoys supporting engineers while contributing to delivery and design decisions. The successful candidate will lead with empathy foster collaboration and provide technical direction across the software development lifecycle. You will help create an environment where individuals can grow contribute and deliver impactful results.

Position Responsibilities:

People Leadership & Team Development

• Lead coach and support a team of full-stack engineers fostering an inclusive collaborative and respectful team environment.

• Support employee growth through regular feedback development planning and career progression opportunities.

• Contribute to building diverse high-performing teams through inclusive hiring and talent development practices.

• Create a team culture that encourages innovation learning and accountability.

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle including design development testing deployment and support.

• Contribute to architectural decisions technical design reviews and solution quality.

• Guide the team in building scalable resilient and maintainable applications using modern full-stack and cloud-enabled approaches.

• Support informed decision-making by evaluating trade-offs risks and technical options.

• Ensure solutions align with organizational architecture security and compliance standards.

Delivery & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead delivery of complex initiatives ensuring alignment with customer business and technology objectives.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Product Architecture Cybersecurity and Operations teams.

• Support Agile practices to improve planning predictability and delivery outcomes.

• Use delivery and engineering metrics to continuously improve team effectiveness quality and throughput.

• Maintain oversight of application health lifecycle management and production support activities.

• Promote operational excellence including reliability monitoring and issue resolution practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in software engineering including experience designing and delivering enterprise applications.

• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.

• Hands-on experience with modern application development using one or more of the following:

• Java or Kotlin (Spring Boot)Python C# / .NET TypeScript React

• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as GitHub Jira Confluence Jenkins Maven Snyk SonarQube or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a combined people leadership and hands-on technical role (e.g. Engineering Manager Tech Lead Manager).

• Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments (e.g. financial services banking).

• Experience with cloud-based development automation CI/CD and platform modernization.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools or practices that support engineering productivity or quality.

• Demonstrated commitment to mentoring and developing engineering talent

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit 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 .

Referenced Salary Location

Waterloo Ontario

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$113000.00 CAD - $163000.00 CAD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. 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. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location.

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.

We use data and analytics technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and automated processing tools to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process. For more information please refer to our personal information collection statement.

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1