Job Description

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you\xe2\x80\x99ll 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.

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The Digital Solutions team seeks an experienced JAVA API Engineer to our grow our API Adoption and Integration team which focuses on API development patterns, adoption, and ecosystem integration. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our fast paced and high performing API practice team. You will use your API engineering prowess and experience to create and implement new APIs using Sun Life\xe2\x80\x99s API ecosystem, provide API platform and onboarding support to new API developers, and create reusable libraries and patterns.

What will you do?

• Support the design, development, deployment, and rollout of components involved in API Platforms both in the cloud and on premise
• Experience in designing, developing, and implementing API framework (a must)
• Support the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies API development including a gateway/service-mesh, runtimes, security, logging, exception handling, etc. in partnership with rest of Enterprise Services.
• Mentor team members to bring them up to speed on CI/CD best practices.
• Create training material to support and educate Developers in API development.
• Design and develop enterprise-wide archetypes and deployment templates to enable API teams to effectively build and deploy their solutions.

What will you need to succeed?

• University Degree or College Diploma in a related discipline
• Minimum of 8 years in Application and System Design, Development and Delivery and Operations.
• 5+ years experience in implementing continuous integration and delivery solutions
• 5+ years experience programming in Java is required
• Experience with object-oriented analysis and design
• Experience with specialized API architecture frameworks, security, patterns, model and delivery
• Exposure to using Authentication and Authorization solutions with REST APIs. Knowledge of standards like OAuth and OpenID is a must.
• Knowledge of REST API design standards, good working knowledge of API design specifications such as Open API Spec (OAS)
• Strong engineering and delivery expertise in DevOps, Containers/Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka technologies
• Working knowledge of J2EE, WebSphere, Eclipse, IntelliJ
• Experience with scripting languages such as Maven and Gradle
• Experience with source code management tools such as TFS, Bitbucket, Git

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it for you?

• Great Place to Work\xc2\xae Certified in Canada and the US.
• Named 2021 \xe2\x80\x9cBest Places to Work\xe2\x80\x9d by Glassdoor
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• Flexible hybrid work model including in-country work-from-home if you prefer. #LI-Remote, or #LI-Hybrid.
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
• Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
• A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
• Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience.
• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
• A common sense dress code, where you decide how you dress based on your day
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

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 .

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.

Salary Range: 82,000/82 000 - 135,000/135 000

Job Category: IT - Application Development

Posting End Date: 29/11/2023

Sun Life Financial