Technology Industrial Placement Program 2025
John Hancock Manulife
Manulife Technology Industrial Placement Program 2025 - Full-time, 6 months (2025 Sep - 2026 Jan/Feb)
We fully embrace open source and AI technology. Manulife believes great ideas can come from anywhere and anyone, we are looking for ambitious people who want to use their passion and interests to work with other passionate and diverse individuals to help us become a digital customer leader. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you.
Our program has been running since last year, and it's been a great success. In fact, due to their outstanding performance, we've been able to offer returning offers to several of our interns. One such success story, which you can find on our LinkedIn post here, showcases the opportunities and growth that interns can experience through this program.
Position Responsibilities:
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Global Wealth and Asset Management Technology - Software Development
- Work in an Agile Scrum development team on design, develop software applications
- Attend and assist in daily standup meetings and agile ceremonies
- Contributing to development of user stories and task
Global Wealth and Asset Management Technology - Support
- Working on application and platform support projects and BAU ("Business as Usual") tasks.
- Managing work requests in JIRA
- Building and maintaining dashboards in Jira, Excel, and PowerBI
- Maintaining support documentation in SharePoint and Confluence
- Work on minor code changes / programming enhancements when required (opportunity to learn Javascript and other similar languages)
- Intake for customer, agent and Operations inquiries related to business applications, logging tickets and performing initial investigating and triage
- Piloting automation initiatives using tools such as Power Platform to enhance efficiency and improve throughput
- Supporting the team on critical projects (Azure migration, PaaS migration etc.)
Required Qualifications:
- Majoring in computer science or related fields
- Passionate about learning and experimenting with cutting-edge technology
- Strong team collaboration skills
- Proactive, fast learner with good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good verbal and written communication in English
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in programming is an advantage.
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 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 policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com.
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