You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description: The Role Prospr is Sun Life's digital front door for Canadians - startup velocity inside a Fortune 500. We're revolutionizing how Canadians access insurance and wealth solutions by building a platform that lets people buy products the way they want to: online in minutes or virtually via a team of trusted, licensed Advisors.

We're not playing it safe. We're building with AI and creating omnichannel experiences - at the speed customers now expect. You lead the squad. Your team's success is your success.

As Engineering Manager, you're accountable for a single squad's delivery, people development, and execution quality. You balance hands-on technical contribution with people leadership.



You translate product requirements into executable work, own sprint commitments, and ensure your squad is healthy, productive, and shipping at startup velocity.

You're accountable for how work gets done—sprint execution, code quality, team health, and delivery commitments. You'll lead the squad, working closely with Product Directors to drive business outcomes.

For candidates with these preferred skills ,

exceptions beyond the usual salary range below may be possible.

What You'll Do ?

Lead sprint execution and delivery commitments with full accountability

Translate product requirements into clear, executable engineering work

Directly manage developers - hiring, own their performance, growth, engagement, and career development

Enforce engineering standards and code quality within your squad

Stay technically credible - you code when needed and lead technical discussions

Build and maintain a healthy squad culture aligned with Accelerator principles

Remove blockers and manage dependencies with other squads, enterprise teams, and vendors

Own day-to-day delivery coordination with Product, Design, and other squads

Balance technical debt with feature delivery - you make the trade-offs

Operate with startup velocity - quick iterations, continuous deployment, data-driven decisions





What Success Looks Like ? Your squad delivers predictably and at high velocity. Engineers are growing and engaged. Code quality is consistently high. The team collaborates well. Product and stakeholders trust your commitments. You're shipping features that drive business outcomes - lead conversion, advisor productivity, straight-through processing rates.

Who You Are ?

Experienced engineer ready to lead people

or current Engineering Manager from a product-focused tech company

Startup mindset

- you know how to ship fast and iterate based on data

Comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with management

Strong at sprint planning, estimation, and execution

in an Agile environment

Comfortable having tough conversations

about performance, growth, and accountability

Detail-oriented without losing sight of business outcomes

Able to context-switch

between code reviews, 1:1s, and stakeholder management

Protective of your team's time and focus

while maintaining high throughput

What You Bring

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an Engineering Manager (or equivalent team leadership) role.

Experience leading a single squad/team end-to-end (delivery, quality, reliability, and team health), with clear examples of outcomes.

Hands-on expertise with Java, React (or other similar modern Javascript) and enterprise integrations. Experience with Salesforce would be an asset.

Demonstrated ability to run team-level execution rituals (planning, sprint/flow management, dependencies, release coordination) and improve delivery predictability.

Experience hiring, onboarding, and

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