Job title: AVP Canada Data Office
Company: Manulife
Job description: We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.
Working Arrangement
Hybrid
Job Description
The Opportunity
The Assistant Vice President, Canada Data Office role is responsible for leading and implementing a strategic roadmap for collecting, storing, and processing enterprise & divisional data to support and enable analytics, digital transformation and operational improvements. This involves researching, recommending and choosing optimal solutions to lead and implement modern data architecture as well as maintaining and supervising the success of these solutions. The incumbent must have a passion for how data can be proven and used to drive deeper, relevant insights that enhance the customer experience, grow our businesses, minimize risk and engage our employees globally.
The role involves leading a team of highly skilled data engineering professionals and implementing industry standard methodologies around data technology and governance to ensure business and analytical needs are well understood and satisfied. The incumbent will participate in long range strategic planning that addresses sophisticated data management challenges. Projects are highly sophisticated, complex and involve many partners. The overall accountabilities support analytics, executive decision making and direct customer- facing activities. In addition, the role provides thought leadership and consultative support to the many data activities across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Enable software development across Canada segment business priorities through an embedded team of data analysts, architects and data engineers, with a focus on accelerating consistent implementation of engineering patterns and approaches to deliver on key business priorities across Group Benefits, Bank and Insurance
- Aligning to and in partnership with the Global Data Office, guide, contribute and adopt the development and evolution of engineering patterns, standard methodologies, and reference implementations to consistently increase the rate of sharing and reuse globally
- Promote and adopt data governance and stewardship by embedding the data product concepts within the software development lifecycle
- Responsible for ensuring all data management processes conform to standard operating procedures and provide guidance around data quality, metadata management, data stewardship and security, and access controls
- Ability & preference to work in an Agile environment with quarterly increment planning
- Build and develop strong relationships horizontally across business units and partners to help build shareholder value with data
- Bring strong operational and engineering excellence and ability to drive continuous improvement
- Maintain an enterprise view on the evolution of data technologies and software engineering, and champion experimentation and implementation of emerging technologies including Generative AI
What motivates you?
- You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.
What we are looking for
- Over 10 years of demonstrated success architecting and delivering data-centric initiatives and platforms
- Over 10 years of experience with Waterfall and Agile project delivery methodologies, as well as DevOps/DataOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other software development lifecycle approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
- Experience in Financial Services (e.g., banking, brokerages, asset management, insurance)
- Experimenting with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to lead through creative abrasion
- Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes across all levels in the organization
- Developing junior data analysts and data engineers, and a passion for growing staff within the organization
You will be working with:
- Operational and Informational data integration technologies and platforms (e.g. Azure Synapse, ADLS, Databricks, SQL Server, Purview, Azure MLOps and OpenAI)
- Cloud infrastructure and other components supporting a highly-automated global engineering platform.(Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD)
- Languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, Python and other similar technologies
- Business Intelligence & Analytics tools (e.g. Python, Power BI, Tableau)
- Innovative Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning software
- Digital and mobile technologies
What can we offer you?
- A competitive salary and benefits packages.
- A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
- A focus on growing your career path with us.
- Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
- Professional development and leadership opportunities.
Our commitment to you
- Values-first culture: We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
- Boundless opportunity: We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
- Continuous innovation: We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
- Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
- Championing Corporate Citizenship: We build a business that benefits all partners and has a positive social and environmental impact.
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About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.
Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At 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.
It 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 .
Salary & Benefits
The annual base salary for this role is listed below.
Primary Location CAN, Ontario, Toronto, 200 Bloor Street East
Salary range is expected to be between $120,400.00 CAD – $223,700.00 CAD
If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact for the salary range for your location. 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. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.
Manulife 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.
Expected salary:
Location: Toronto, ON
Job date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:09:07 GMT
