The Associate Software Technical Analyst will be part of the Global Actuarial Business Support (GABS) that has been established to accelerate the technical evolution and support of our Actuaries around the world. We are looking for someone with strong analytical and solid collaborative skills to support the enhancement requirements, non-production and production processes and fixes of the application. The candidate must have strong interpersonal skills to work with stakeholders and support teams across the globe.

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage, and act for their benefit  
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes  
• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together 
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters  
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up 
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone  

We are looking for someone with:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or any related course
• At least 1-2 years experience with the following: ETL (e.g. Informatica), Scheduling Automation (e.g. CA, CTRL-M), SQL (e.g. Databases, MS SQL), Reporting (e.g. Qlikview)
• Experience in operations management & vendor management, working with stakeholders and support teams across the globe
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and solutioning skills
• Knowledge and application of change & release management, ITIL4 & project management
• Familiarity with agile principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
• Understanding of software development lifecycle
• Understanding of how technology supports Manulife business strategy
• Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, share skills and methods
• Constantly learns from both success and failure
• Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
• Good organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills
• Strong management drive to ensure you meet defined service targets and Service Level Agreements
• Ability to maintain the highest level of ethical conduct in safeguarding sensitive, confidential, financial, HR company information

*Useful but not required:

• Exposure to and basic understanding of business intelligence systems, dashboard reporting, and analytical reporting
• Exposure to and basic understanding of collaboration tools like Teams, JIRA, Confluence
• Ability to code or exposure in Python scripting, Windows Powershell

On the job you will:

• Collaborate with Valuation System Transformation project team and other groups within the Actuarial Systems group as well as Actuaries within the company to uncover pain points and opportunities to accelerate the delivery of new business value through software, infrastructure, and services
• Deliver an exceptional user experience to Actuaries, through the delivery of services enabling  
• Self-service environment provisioning and configuration 
• Continuous integration, testing, delivery, and deployment 
• Logging, monitoring, and insight 
• Collaboration, planning, and reporting 
• Maintain and support these delivery services, with accountability for production reliability and usage, and the delivery of new functionality 
• Support non-production and Production operations and fixes
• Work with support teams and vendor to implement fixes and changes
• Primarily work on Asia, Mid or North America time, with flexibility to adjust to meet with the global team and support weekend deployments or production requirements.

Our commitment to you:  

• Our mission; to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better 
• A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success  
• A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industry  
• Our best. Every day.  

** This job description does not represent a comprehensive listing of job duties that are required of the employee performing this role. We reserve the right to change duties or assign additional duties at any time with or without notice.

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