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. At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. 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 RoleProspr 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 building with AI and creating omnichannel experiences
- at the speed customers now expect. 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. For candidates with these preferred skills , 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 Balance technical debt with feature delivery
- you make the trade-offs Operate with startup velocity
- fast iterations, continuous deployment, data-driven decisions Code quality is consistently high. You're shipping features that drive business outcomes
- lead conversion, advisor productivity, straight-through processing rates. or current Engineering Manager from a product-focused tech company 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 about performance, growth, and accountability 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 developing engineers (coaching, feedback, performance conversations) Technical credibility to guide design and implementation: comfortable with architecture discussions, code/design reviews, and raising the engineering quality bar. Proven partnership with Product and Design to shape scope, manage trade-offs, and communicate progress/risks clearly. Leadership Opportunity: Lead technical direction, mentor others, and shape the engineering culture of a growing team Flexible Workstyle: In office 2-3 days per week, hybrid the rest of the week In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas perks our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.
We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you. We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

📌 Manager - Planning & Engineering (Winnipeg)
🏢 Sun Life
📍 Winnipeg