Manulife Tech Stack

Global insurance and asset management group transitioning to cloud-native and AI-powered operations

Insurance Toronto, Ontario 10,001+ employees Public Company

Manulife operates a massive financial services organization spanning insurance, wealth management, and asset administration across North America and Asia. The tech stack reveals a traditional enterprise core (COBOL, IBM i, VBA, QlikView) undergoing modernization: adopting Power BI, React, and RAG while actively replacing legacy mainframe languages. Hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering, data, and finance — a pattern consistent with migrating monolithic systems to cloud-native microservices and embedding AI-driven automation into compliance and fraud detection workflows.

Tech Stack 200 technologies

Core StackWorkday Python Java JavaScript Node.js New Relic Jest JUnit SonarQube Angular TypeScript Microsoft Office Teams PowerPoint Excel VBA Microsoft Access SQL QlikView Spring Boot Swagger Kibana Jasmine Mocha Mockito Azure Kubernetes Service Fortify WebInspect Material-UI CSS Grid+170 more

AdoptingPower BI Power Platform React Node.js RAG Ivalua Azure Key Vault Vault

ReplacingIBM i COBOL

What Manulife Is Building

◆Challenges

Process inefficiencies
Process streamlining
Control gaps
Process automation
Fraud detection
Compliance with regulatory standards
Improving agent performance
Compliance with regulatory requirements
Data governance compliance
Performance gaps

▲Active Projects

Automation initiatives
New product development
Transformation initiatives
Rim program development
Process automation
Anaplan implementation projects for global finance anaplan coe
System enhancements
Risk and control assessments (rcsa)
New business initiatives
Cloud-native microservices architecture implementation

Hiring Activity

Accelerating1,200 roles · 500 in 30d

Department

Finance

173

Ops

169

Sales

158

Engineering

154

Data

Support

Product

Security

Seniority

Senior

337

Mid

296

Manager

205

Junior

128

Director

Lead

Intern

Staff

Notable leadership hires: Institutional Sales Director, Actuarial Lead, Underwriting Director, Health Proposition Lead, Director HNW Distribution

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About Manulife

Manulife is a publicly traded international financial services group headquartered in Toronto with over 40,000 employees and 116,000 agents serving approximately 34 million customers globally. The company manages over $1.3 trillion in assets under administration, operating under the Manulife brand in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and as John Hancock in the United States. The business spans life insurance, health insurance, wealth management, and asset management. Current priorities include process automation, system modernization, new product development, and strengthening risk controls and compliance frameworks across distributed teams.

HeadquartersToronto, Ontario

Company Size10,001+ employees

Hiring MarketsJapan, Philippines, China, United States, Cambodia, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Manulife's tech stack?

Core stack: SQL, Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Node.js, Angular, TypeScript, Azure Kubernetes Service. Legacy: COBOL, IBM i, QlikView, VBA, Access. Adopting: Power BI, React, RAG, Vault, Power Platform.

What is Manulife working on?

Cloud-native microservices migration, process automation, Anaplan implementation for finance, fraud detection systems, compliance automation, new product development, and system enhancements across global operations.