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Manulife Associate Vice President, GFT Engineering in Toronto, Ontario
The Associate Vice President, Engineering – Shared Services is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of engineering solutions, development practices, and technological features built to support all Group Functions, including Actuarial, Finance, Risk Management, Compliance, Legal, HR, and other enterprise support functions!
This AVP leads engineering execution across multiple portfolios, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise architecture and platform strategy! The role oversees full stack developers, solution architects, DevOps engineers, and platform specialists, driving engineering excellence and consistency across all functions.
The role reports into the VP, Technology Strategy, Delivery, & Engineering and plays a pivotal part in shaping and maturing the enterprise engineering ecosystem. It combines strong technical authority with hands-on leadership, guiding teams in modern engineering methods, platform patterns, and cloud-native development.
Position Responsibilities:
Engineering Delivery & Technical Leadership
Provide hands-on leadership of solution architecture, platform engineering, and full stack development across all Group Functions.
Oversee the design and delivery of secure, performant, and modular solutions using cloud-native, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
Lead code review practices, architectural oversight, and engineering governance to ensure quality, resilience, and maintainability.
Drive adoption of common engineering patterns, frameworks, reusable services, and shared platforms across Finance, Actuarial, Risk, Compliance, HR, Legal, and Procurement.
Partner with the PMO, Product Owners, and Architecture teams to align engineering execution with enterprise technology strategy and application roadmaps.
Modern Engineering Practices & Platform Commonalities
Establish and maintain enterprise engineering standards: DevOps, CI/CD automation, SRE practices, test automation, monitoring, and secure-by-design frameworks.
Build common platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across Group Functions (e.g., shared data access layers, workflow engines, integration patterns, identity services).
Champion developer experience (DevEx) and productivity tools, including automated pipelines, IaC, code scaffolding, and AI augmented development (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
Multi-functional Partner Alignment
Serve as the primary point of contact for all engineering and development matters for Group Functions.
Engage with senior business and technology leaders to translate functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Influence multi-functional governance bodies and drive alignment across architecture, security, operations, and program delivery leadership.
Operational Excellence
Maintain engineering and operational dashboards to baseline delivery performance, quality, productivity, and agility.
Lead the solving and rapid resolution of complex architectural or system issues.
Ensure platforms supporting Group Functions remain stable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise operational requirements.
People Leadership
Lead a team of full-time employees and contractors across architecture, engineering, DevOps, and delivery roles.
Build career paths, development plans, and succession pipelines for technical talent.
Promote cross-training and an engineering community of practice throughout Group Functions.
Act as a coach and mentor, elevating the technical bar of architects, developers, and team leads.
Attract, hire, and retain high-performing engineering talent with advanced cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering skills.
Required Qualifications:
Technical Skills
10–15 years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, cloud development, or platform engineering.
Proven capability designing and implementing cloud-native systems using Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Expertise with modern engineering toolchains and platforms:
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
Container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Event streaming (Kafka)
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
Strong technical depth in APIs, microservices, distributed systems, integration patterns, and automated testing frameworks.
Experience with enterprise SaaS integrations.
Ability to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including generative AI accelerators, automated code remediation, and engineering productivity tooling.
Solid understanding of financial, actuarial, risk, and compliance systems and their unique technical controls.
Non-Technical Skills
Exceptional communication skills—able to simplify complex technical issues to business leaders.
Strong relationship-building with senior partners.
Ability to lead through ambiguity and influence teams outside direct line authority.
High learning agility and the ability to ramp up quickly on new domains.
Strong organizational skills with a track record of delivering large, complex multi-stakeholder programs.
When you join our team:
We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in building the future you want to see.
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Referenced Salary Location
Toronto, Ontario
Modalidades de Trabajo
Híbrido
Salary range is expected to be between
$129,800.00 CAD - $241,200.00 CAD
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