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Manulife

Data Engineer

Hybrid

Waterloo, Canada

Junior

Full Time

09-09-2025

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Skills

Communication Problem Solving Python Java Scala Jira SQL Big Data Data Warehousing Data Governance DevOps Azure Data Factory Scrum Architecture Data Architecture Programming Organization SQL Server Azure Marketing Agile Recruitment Agile Scrum Databricks ETL Processes

Job Specifications

Join us at Manulife and be part of a team that strives for excellence, where your efforts will directly contribute to our success. Here, your work will have an important impact, and you'll be empowered to make decisions that improve our marketing strategies and customer experience.

As a Data Engineer at Manulife, you would play a critical role in the development and maintenance of the company's data systems and architecture. You would collaborate with other highly skilled data engineers, data architects and governance team in designing, developing, and deploying data pipelines, ETL processes, and other data integration solutions to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into Manulife's data warehouse.

This Data Engineer role is essential for driving efficiency and innovation within our organization. By developing and maintaining automation, this position helps streamline operations and improve efficiency, contributing to our mission of delivering high-quality products and platform services. This role is integral to our goal of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Position Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and other relevant services
Develop and maintain the company's data architecture, including data models, schemas, and data dictionaries.
Integrate data from various sources, ensuring data quality and consistency, and prepare it for analytical and operational use
Follow consistency of data governance policies and processes to ensure data security, privacy, and compliance.
Collaborate with other data professionals, including data scientists, analysts, and business team members, to understand data requirements and develop solutions to meet those needs.
Stay up to date with the latest tools and technologies and see opportunities to enhance Manulife's data infrastructure.
Ability to learn and implement best practices of big data and cloud computing to ensure solutions are scalable, efficient, and effective.

Required Qualifications

4 or more years of relevant industry experience as Data Engineer
Experience in building and operationalizing Data pipelines in cloud MS Azure using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks.
Experience in automating data pipelines and familiarity with DevOps and CICD pipelines
Good working knowledge on MS azure services (SQL Queries, ADLS gen 2, ADF, Databricks, Synapse, SQL Server) to design a data ecosystem.
Good knowledge of data warehousing concepts and relational data modelling
Familiarity with programming in both compile languages (Java, Scala) and scripting languages (Python, SQL, R)
Understanding of Agile scrum methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with exposure to and working understanding of collaboration tools like Teams, JIRA, Mural
Experience in Data processing, performance analysis, tuning and capacity planning

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Excellent analytical, problem solving and solutioning skills
A capacity for constant learning from both success and failure, remaining open to change and continuous improvement
Familiarity with production release and operational support model

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 crafting the future you want to see!

About Manulife And John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

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

About the Company

Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We have more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents serving ~34 million customers worldwide, and over $1.3 trillion in assets under management and administration. Visit www.Manulife.com to find out more. For Manulife terms of use, pleas... Know more