Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

Manulife

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer driving complex technology solutions for financial services at Manulife. Collaborate with teams to ensure high-quality outcomes in product development and delivery.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $127,330 - $236,470 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and own the vision, roadmap, and operating model for the technology practice
Serve as the senior technical escalation point and subject-matter authority for complex products in Collateral, Derivatives and Investment Accounting technology
Partner with Architecture, Product, Delivery, and Business leaders to shape solutions and investment priorities
Own and drive resolution of complex, cross-cutting technical challenges across three products
Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to product-level Technical Leads
Act as the primary escalation point for critical technical issues
Collaborate with product, architecture, and senior technology stakeholders to shape technical roadmaps
Ensure the practice consistently delivers high-quality outcomes across multiple initiatives
Monitor practice health using defined KPIs
Develops, tests, and implements new features for scalable software solutions
Drive adoption of modern engineering, delivery, and operational practices
Ensure compliance with enterprise security, risk, regulatory, and operational standards
Proactively identify and mitigate technical, delivery, and operational risks

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of progressive experience in technology roles
Proven experience leading a technology practice, domain, or capability area (e.g., Engineering, Cloud, Platform, Data, Integration)
Strong technical depth with the ability to engage credibly in architecture, design, and delivery discussions
Experience operating at scale across distributed teams, vendors, and geographies
Demonstrated success in talent development, mentoring, and organizational leadership
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at senior leadership levels
Experience working with trading, collateral management, and investment accounting systems such as Findur (ION), Apex, SimCorp Dimension, or similar enterprise platforms used in front-office, risk, collateral, and accounting workflows
Familiarity with integrating multiple financial systems, including data flows, APIs, messaging, reconciliation, and ensuring operational stability across interconnected platforms
Experience contributing to or supporting cloud migration initiatives, particularly using Azure services, containerization, and orchestration technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Mental health benefits
Vision insurance
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Life insurance
AD&D insurance coverage
Adoption/surrogacy benefits
Wellness benefits
Employee/family assistance plans
Retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans)
Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
Financial education and counseling resources
Generous paid time off (up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time)

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Hard Skills & Tools

technical leadershiparchitecturedesigndeliverycloud migrationcontainerizationorchestrationAPIsdata flowsreconciliation

Soft Skills

stakeholder managementinfluencingtalent developmentmentoringorganizational leadership