Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer

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Job Description

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you.

Overview:

As part of our transformation journey, we are looking for a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to support Manulife/John Hancock Global Retirement Business value streams/product lines. You will be required to be focused and have a passion for pragmatic and collaborative solutioning. Work with the business to fulfill product requirements and have a keen eye to assess & build and use our enterprise architecture design patterns to successful delivery.

With a strong background of hands-on Engineering and Architecture, you will support the Global Retirement product lines in their current and future state architectural design, issue resolution and solutions considerations for associated value streams. You will be responsible for collaborating with our product line engineers, and their constituent technologies, in addition domain focused solution architects.

Pragmatism is essential to this role with strong communication capabilities and a collaborative approach with both business and technical collaborators alike. Working closely with the divisional architecture team (Product, Domain and Enterprise) and the Value Streams across Retirement Technology, contribute to proof of technology initiatives, fulfill both non-functional and functional requirements and provide support in the definition and delivery of our pivotal initiatives. In addition, have a strong tie to the cross-divisional architecture groups and global domain architects for alignment of technology requirements, capabilities, and adoption.

Inspiring and supporting the delivery teams as they drive forward is a must in this technology leadership role.

Job Specific Accountabilities:

• Applies knowledge of cloud platforms
• Assists with analysis of how business requirements can be technically implemented.
• Integrates large and sophisticated enterprise systems.
• Applies problem-solving to address challenges and concerns.
• Helps institute outstanding technology capabilities with diligence, attention to detail and intuition.
• Helps implement sophisticated organizational and planning skills to developmental projects.
• Balances contending priorities while adhering to deadlines and aligning resources with value demands.
• Helps craft digital architecture, drawing on knowledge of open source and/or commercially available platforms.
• Applies industry standard processes and design patterns to build scalable and secure solutions that have outstanding technical performance.
• Develops system implementation plans/processes and supervise the development, integration, testing and launch stages of Product.
• Assists in driving the implementation of key processes related to building Product as a digital business.
• Evaluates third-party suppliers, products and solutions and engage in/leading collaborative discussions.
• Designs and establish an accredited third-party supplier network of IT/digital delivery partners.
• Applies disciplined coding practices to enable agility and delivery of high-quality code.
• Ability to do impact analysis and propose high level system solutions for new developments.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Deep understanding of business strategy and contribute to the crafting of software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.
• Knowledge or experience with Cloud based architectures, API gateways; demonstrate and communicate a passion for digital products and services.
• Experience with