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

Job Description:

Our teams provide the services and technology that our business partners need to help customers achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier. Through innovation and collaboration, we're striving to continually find new and better ways to bring value to Sun Life and our clients.

We are currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical design, development, support and analysis for large-scale applications and systems in a new agile team within the Canadian IT Platforms and Engineering team. The successful candidate is a team player with excellent technical and problem-solving skills, is aware of industry trends, questions the status quo and can identify and propose alternatives. Come join us as we continue to intensify the focus on our digital journey, building APIs and improving our client experience.

What will you do?

• Collaborate with skilled cross functional Agile team members to understand user needs and design, develop and deliver high quality web applications that meet those needs
• Configure and design applications and workflows, using outside the box thinking, to create innovative ways to advance our client first strategy
• Coach, mentor and collaborate with members of the design and development team
• Provide technical direction and guidance to projects, ensuring risks are mitigated and projects are implemented successfully
• Contribute to defining timelines and plans; analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, time and scope
• Ensure coding, testing, debugging, and implementation activities are completed as required
• Participate in agile ceremonies

What you need to succeed:

• Minimum 7 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, Microservices and API Development
• Containerization experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Working experience to provide mastery of Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Unix/Linux, middleware technologies, web and web hosting technologies.
• Proficient with Soap/XML, REST/JSON
• Advanced overall understanding of Web applications and server technologies
• Experience with Unit testing tools (e.g. Junit, Mockito, RESTAssured)
• Hands on experience using DevOps tools (BitBucket, CDD, Jenkins)
• Understanding of Javascript and JQuery
• React and Web Accessibility experience is a bonus.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence (nice to have)

Individual skills:

• Customer obsession – customers are at the centre of all we do
• A penchant for creating re-usable components and identifying opportunities for re-use
• Flexible and adaptable with the ability to align to changing priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Special Requirements:

• Occasional travel between Sun Life locations (Toronto, Waterloo) may be required depending on work assignment
• Periodic weekend/after-hours work may be required to support project implementations and system upgrades.

What’s in it for you

• Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US.
• Named 2021 “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• We’re proud to be a Best Workplace for Hybrid Work by Great Place to Work® Canada
• An environment of continuous learning and improvement
• Wide range of career growth opportunities within our team and the company
• Competitive salary structure in an outcome-based environment, influenced by market range data
• Flexible hours and periodic work from home options

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The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. 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. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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.com.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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