Associate Technical Specialist

We're looking for an Associate Technical Specialist to join our Technology team at MBPS. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting and maintaining critical and non-critical products/applications across Group Functions Technology. We are looking for someone who is creative with good attention to detail, proactive, curious, analytical with a strong background in customer service and a good understanding of wealth and asset management systems.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Support a wide variety of systems from a Level 2/3 perspective using DevSecOps and other methodologies or support model as aligned by MBPS, Business Unit or Stakeholders.
• Work with business clients, internal and external teams to debug or trouble shoot applications.
• Investigate SQL stored procedures, VBA macros and Java scripts from a support perspective to debug issues or perform analysis and development for minor enhancements.
• Coordinate and collaborate the development efforts with the development team for major enhancements.
• Investigate feed/file delivery, quality check and failures using any batch or workflow related tools by the team.
• Remain current on standards, technologies, approaches and methodologies.
• Consistently apply the concept of continuous improvement.
• Document findings and processes as part of application support.
• Gather and clearly document code changes for minor application enhancements and production defects. Perform QA testing to validate expectation of code changes if needed.
• Liase between business users and IT internal and external teams.
• Coordinate business users testing activity for application code changes.
• Track and produce key metrics for the team and develop strategies to increase efficiency.
• Adhoc responsibilities as directed by management.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years working experience supporting systems at Level 2 (support).
• Experience with relational database structures and methodologies.
• Proven ability to multitask both independently and within a team.
• Ability to understand business process requirements and using technology, conceptualize creative solutions through to implementation.
• Knowledge of financial services.
• Client and action oriented, takes initiative, creative and proactive thinker.
• Awareness of ITIL (incident, problem, change management) practices in aligning IT services with the needs of business.
• Work Set Up: Hybrid (3x a week onsite)
• Shift: Night

Preferred Qualifications:

• Effective English verbal and written communication skills. Should be able to adapt communication style to suit different audiences
• Can translate a more complex technical problem into business terms
• Strong application development/programming skills
• Solution design mindset - Ability to constructively challenge business requirements, technical requirements and any other direction that is received, to ensure we are building the BEST solution
• Work well independently as well as in a team environment as situation dictates
• Have strong knowledge with the following tools:
  • Javascript
  • MS SQL / Oracle
  • GitHub
  • API
  • HTML, CSS
  • Shell Scripting/ Power Shell / UNIX
  • Windows, Batch/Perl Scripting
  • ServiceNow / Jira / other workflow tools
  • MS Azure
  • Batch monitoring tools such as CA Workload Automation (or related scheduling software)
  • Informatica development (or related ETL tools)

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 global team, we'll support you in shaping 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

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