Director of Engineering – Mortgage Creditor Insurance

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About the role

  • Director of Engineering leading multifunctional teams building Insurance Technology systems for Manulife’s financial services business. Delivering reliable client-facing products across Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multifunctional engineering teams building and supporting Insurance Technology systems
  • Lead teams in redesigning and building client-facing technology systems for Insurance and Affinity business in Canada
  • Assist squads with Tier 2 and Tier 3 support under the application criticality framework
  • Employ reusable and extensible frameworks, reference implementations, and patterns
  • Build new functionality to deliver key product objectives
  • Deliver exceptional user experiences through products and services with strong, extendable architectural design
  • Guide and motivate engineering staff and focus on team engagement
  • Maintain and support services with accountability for production reliability and usage
  • Deliver new functionality
  • Develop and support products, frameworks, and engineering patterns

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience leading teams or large-scale programs
  • Preferred insurance or banking industry experience
  • Deep, hands-on background in modern software development and practices
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working within a rapidly changing startup environment
  • Strong project management experience, including planning, estimation, roadmap building, hiring, and team building
  • Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles
  • Familiarity with test-driven development and continuous integration
  • Experience developing engineers and passion for growing staff
  • Experience experimenting with emerging technologies
  • Capacity for constant learning, openness to change, and continuous improvement
  • Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes across all organizational levels
  • Understanding of capital markets or financial services fundamentals, or willingness to learn
  • React, NodeJS, AKS, and Azure platform familiarity preferred
  • Open-source experience an asset

Benefits

  • Flexible environment supporting well-being and inclusion
  • Career learning and growth support
  • Health benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Mental health benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • Adoption/surrogacy benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Employee/family assistance plans
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Pension
  • Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
  • Financial education and counseling resources
  • Paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
  • Statutory leaves of absence
  • Incentive programs and incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$113,260 - CA$210,340 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AzureNode.jsReact

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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