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completion.\nAbility to lead a squad team in day-to-day project execution, including task assignment, progress tracking, blocker follow-up, and delivery coordination.\nGood collaboration skills with architects, senior engineers, business analysts, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.\nAbility to troubleshoot technical issues, analyze root causes, and propose practical fixes.\nAbility to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and blockers.\nCommunication\nFluent in English, with excellent written and verbal communication abilities.\nAbility to prepare clear technical documentation, delivery updates, test evidence, issue summaries, squad status updates, and risk or dependency reports.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting Enterprise Data Lake migration or implementation programs involving Azure, AWS, GCP, or Alibaba Cloud, including DataWorks, MaxCompute, Flink, Hologres, and related data governance processes.\nExperience in Insurance, Banking, Financial Services, or other highly regulated industries is preferred.\nAlibaba Cloud certification, data engineering certification, cloud certification, or equivalent professional certification is a plus.\nExperience building reusable data pipelines, job templates, validation scripts, monitoring checks, or operational runbooks is a plus.\nExperience following enterprise data platform standards, architecture guidelines, migration templates, and governance controls is preferred.\nWhen you join our team:\nWe’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.\nWe’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.\nAs part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.\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. 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