Application Security Analyst

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today. 

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Job Description

Join our Canadian Segment Engineering team!

Within Manulife's Canadian Segment, Manulife Bank is seeking an IT/Security Analyst with technical knowledge/skills and a strong analysis and governance approach to join our team.

How will you contribute:

In collaboration with our engineering teams; helping to establish and maintain an application security governance framework, ensuring the Bank is leading in this space. 

Responsibilities:

• Governance of Manulife Bank application vulnerabilities (PEN test, Static code analysis, Open-source vulnerability management, VDP findings) 
• Conducting meetings, reviewing outstanding vulnerability issues, reviewing with multiple collaborators across the organization to understand issues and clarify impacts to our systems.
• Collaborating with product owners, other analysts, engineers, architects, and other Manulife security and risk teams.
• Maintain documentation on outstanding issues.
• Partner with application currency governance.
• Build up and maintain governance dashboards broken down by application asset.
• Interact with global governance teams, Bank application squads, and business partners.
• Provide governance data to partners and leading Directors.

Other Experience and Requirements:

• Understand the high level architecture of Banking systems.
• Ability to provide support and response within a high availability environment to handle raised concerns as required. Validate security changes post implementation.
• Maintain continual self-education on past, present, and evolving cyber security threats (Training courses, Security briefings, industry trends and articles)  
• Contribute to documentation on Bank security standards and policies that improve Manulife global policies.
• Analyze regulatory requirements for security standard processes.

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years related experience as Technical Analyst, or as a Software Engineer with prior similar accountabilities.
• A thorough approach to work with deep technical, analytical, conceptual, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid written and verbal communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Good analytical skills, copes with varying situations through deliberate analysis and planning.
• Ability to collaborate when clarifying needs to balance business direction/requirements with cost of development and risk.
• Strong planning and organizational skills to self-manage and assist in running delivery schedules for multiple parallel initiatives.
• Tools experience: JIRA, Confluence, Excel. 
• Technical tools experience: ETL tools (such as Power BI), experience working with query languages such as SQL, LINQ preferred.
• Technical skills including analyzing data from different sources, understanding various data formats, basic understanding of programming and/or technology infrastructure.
• Confirmed experience learning new processes, technologies, and tools at a rapid pace.
• Ability to use analytical and decision-making skills to offer options and resolve problems in a variety of contexts.

Nice to have: 

• Familiarity with either windows or Linux command line. 
• Certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, CEH, or equivalent) or interest in retaining a security certification. 
• Basic familiarity with git source control.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment:

Values-first culture
We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.

Boundless opportunity
We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.

Continuous innovation
We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.

Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

Championing Corporate Citizenship
We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

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.

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location

Waterloo, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between

$74,270.00 CAD - $137,930.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.