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The ideal candidate has a curious mind, a thirst for knowledge, a desire to understand how technology works and a passion for high quality software engineering. You have solid software engineering fundamentals and understand the importance of implementing standard processes such as secure coding, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation. You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and develop new ones so you can make meaningful contributions to Manulife's success.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nWork in an Agile team to create, deliver and maintain high-quality, performant, and secure solutions.\nUse a proactive approach to common challenges and continually research industry standard methodologies in software development.\nAssess the target (future) state of the organization’s technology needs to achieve the business objectives.\nProvide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, ensuring architectural consistency and engineering excellence.\nLead the design and review of software systems, making high-level decisions on architecture and technology choices.\nBuild the solutions to close identified gaps and improve our systems.\nPair program with other software engineers or AI tools to learn, coach, and mentor.\nConsume and contribute to open source and inner source projects.\nHelp us build up our performance and reliability story using tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, and Moogsoftfor performance monitoring, end-to-end logging, and other telemetry data.\nLearn and become proficient in various technologies as required.\nRequired Qualifications:\n5+ years back-end development, designing, implementing solutions in Databricks, Pyspark (Python API), Azure Data Factory and SQL Server\n5+ years of experience developing cloud-native solutions on Azure\n5+ years working with solutions deployment via CI/CD using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies\nProven experience in designing software systems and documenting the design using tools such as UML\nAn approach dedicated to finding solutions, with the ability to make sound professional decisions\nAbility to make complex information accessible and communicate easily within distributed teams\nFamiliarity with Java and Java Spring Boot is an asset\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience in Power BI is an asset.\nExperience in the financial industry (a plus).\nProven track record of practical, thoughtful problem solving.\nExperience with JavaScript, React, and/or NodeJS would be an asset.\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 distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.\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\nToronto, OntarioWorking Arrangement\nHybridSalary range is expected to be between\n$86,100.00 CAD - $136,100.00 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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