Senior Technical Product Owner

Job Description

Are you looking for unlimited opportunities to develop and succeed? With work that challenges and makes a difference, within a flexible and supportive environment, we can help our customers achieve their dreams and aspirations.

Job Description

Overview:

The Senior Technical Product Owner is responsible for driving strategy of key platforms, supporting internal developers and building roadmaps to meet platform requirement needs.

Job Accountabilities:

• Drives the strategy, planning, and delivery of key capabilities for platform products
• Owns the product backlog and feature prioritization process of a Squad
• Leads agile teams to ensure value creation for business & users
• Drives the strategy, planning, and delivery of key capabilities for platform products
• Acts as the voice of the customer in the definition of product; incorporates feedback from customer interviews and user research
• Collaborates with platform and software engineers, platform and site reliability engineers, and engineering leadership to uncover pain points and opportunities to accelerate the delivery of new value through software
• Build business cases for new integrations and product concepts
• Work with software development teams across the globe to define hypotheses, run experiments, and analyze data to make decisions on features that influence the direction of the platform

Knowledge & Skills:

• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes
• Cloud Foundry and other components supporting a highly-automated global engineering platform
• Virtual infrastructure running Ubuntu Linux and Windows operating systems
• Languages such as Java, JavaScript, .NET, HTML5, CSS3, Swift and/or similar technologies
• Experimenting with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next
• A capacity for constant learning from both success and failure, remaining open to change and continuous improvement
• Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods
• Constantly learns from both success and failure
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion
• Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
• Experiments with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next

If you are ready to unleash your potential, it’s time to start your career with Manulife/John Hancock.

About Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States and Manulife elsewhere. We provide financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2018, we had more than 34,000 employees, over 82,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving almost 28 million customers. As of June 30, 2019, we had over $1.1 trillion (US$877 billion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made $29.4 billion in payments to our customers. Our principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States are where we have served customers for more than 100 years. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, 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. 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 and advancement and we administer all of our practices and programs based on qualification and performance and without discrimination on any protected ground. It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will consult with applicants contacted to participate at any stage of the recruitment process who request any accommodation. Information received regarding the accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.