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You will work closely with Product, Data Science, MLOps, Technology, Risk, and Global AI Platform teams to move solutions from prototype to controlled pilot and scalable production deployment.\nPosition Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and optimize AI agents and multi-agent systems that support reasoning, planning, retrieval, workflow automation, and task execution.\n\nDevelop agentic workflows using LLMs, RAG, APIs, tools, enterprise knowledge sources, memory, orchestration, and decision-making capabilities.\n\nRapidly prototype, test, and refine proofs of concept and MVPs that demonstrate measurable business value and can scale beyond experimentation.\n\nBuild predictive, generative, and agentic AI solutions using sound machine learning, evaluation, and analytics practices.\n\nEngineer reusable, platform-ready components, prompts, connectors, orchestration patterns, evaluation flows, and knowledge integrations.\n\nAlign solutions to Manulife’s Global AI Platform architecture, tooling, deployment patterns, governance standards, and approved engineering practices.\n\nOperationalize AI solutions with testing, observability, monitoring, reliability controls, documentation, and clear handoff requirements.\n\nSupport onboarding of priority Canada AI use cases to the Global AI Platform through discovery, fit-gap assessment, remediation, and readiness activities.\n\nContribute reusable reference architectures, code patterns, evaluation methods, playbooks, and development standards.\n\nEnsure solutions meet Responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, model risk, governance, and monitoring requirements.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related field.\n\nHands-on experience developing machine learning, generative AI, or agentic AI solutions in enterprise environments using governed, reusable delivery patterns.\n\nStrong Python and SQL skills, with experience in AI application architecture, orchestration, retrieval, prompt design, evaluation, integration, and production monitoring.\n\nExperience with LLMs, RAG, vector search, embedding models, agent frameworks, API integration, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.\n\nAbility to build secure, scalable, platform-ready AI solutions while collaborating with architecture, MLOps, product, risk, and business stakeholder teams.\n\nBilingualism in English and French is an asset. If the successful candidate is in Québec, proficiency in both languages will be required to support clients from various provinces outside of Québec.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience designing, evaluating, and monitoring production-grade AI agents or agentic workflows on an enterprise AI platform.\n\nStrong understanding of Responsible AI, model governance, security review, risk management, and production approval processes in regulated environments.\n\nExperience building reusable enterprise AI capabilities such as copilots, workflow automation, component libraries, InnerSource assets, and shared engineering patterns.\n\nExperience moving prototypes or locally built AI solutions to enterprise platforms, with exposure to SRE practices, observability, incident response, and production readiness.\n\nFamiliarity with Azure, AKS, PostgreSQL, Key Vault, graph and vector databases, agent orchestration, automated red teaming, LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation, Akka SDK patterns, Java syntax, or financial services environments.\n\nWhen you join our team\nWe’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.\n\nWe’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.\n\nAs part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.\n\nThe role being advertised is an existing vacancy.\nAbout Manulife and John Hancock\nManulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.\nManulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nAt 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.\nIt 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 .\nReferenced Salary Location\nMontreal, QuebecWorking Arrangement\nHybridSalary range is expected to be between\n$94,430.00 CAD - $144,430.00 CADEmployees 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.\nManulife 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.\nWe 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. 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