Engineering Manager

Description:

We are seeking a self-motivated, strong technical leader, who is obsessed with delivering value, are forward-thinking, and excited to see the successful implementation of the quality products we deliver.

How will I contribute?

Leading and Developing a strong team

• Growing your squads’ strengths through coaching, mentoring, and enabling great opportunities

• Building a great team dynamic through engagement, organizing around the squads’ strengths and skills and/or adding the right people to the squad

Delivering Quality Products

• Team up with product owners, architects, and software engineers to find problems and uncover opportunities for delivering incredible new business value through software.

• Roll out products, tech upgrades, and services using a flexible and scalable architectural design.

• Keep these critical apps running smoothly, taking charge of their reliability, security, and performance.

• Influence and lead discussions with our strategic business partners to push our solutions forward and deliver value faster.

• Be the bridge that helps our team bring Manulife’s tech vision to life.

• Keep the momentum going by ensuring we hit key achievements with consistent and coordinated efforts.

• Stay tuned into impact of changes, unblocking the team, mitigating issues and keeping senior leaders in the know on implementations.

• Turn complex program requirements into clear technical specs that work across a variety of projects.

• Evaluate and define existing technology standards to ensure compliance with program-level requirements.

• Collaborate with partner teams to improve process flows when needed.

• Keep an eye on new tech and policy trends that could impact our daily operations.

• Always aim to go above and beyond purpose and quality requirements.

Skills & Experience:

• With 4+ years of technology leadership experience, leading teams of 8+ people and are passionate about helping your team grow within the organization.

• A proven track record of building and leading high-performing tech teams, inspiring them both locally and remotely in a hybrid work setup.

• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in a rapidly changing environment; you love the challenge of leading multiple teams and being part of a larger movement to transform engineering culture.

• You're more than comfortable diving into the full technology stack, from new tech to legacy systems, covering everything from Web to API, Backend systems like Mainframe, Business Applications, and external customer-facing web portals.

• You're well-versed in agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other methods to speed up the delivery of new features.

• You have an interest in constant learning from both wins and losses, staying open to change and continuous improvement.

• Your organizational and problem-solving skills help you navigate through creative challenges.

• You have strong verbal and written communication skills, making it easy for you to clearly articulate and communicate technical visions, possibilities, and outcomes across all levels of the organization.

• You've got experience with large-scale software delivery and/or Agile transformation at scale in big enterprise environments.