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. : Senior API Platform Solutions Design Engineer You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you will be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best. You will 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 will 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.

Role Summary



This strategic role is responsible for championing the enterprise API Platform Evangelization & Adoption initiative that supports business priorities and our technical roadmap. This role will combine design, development, implementation and operationalization of Enterprise API Platform solutions along with providing consultation support to our global business delivery teams in order to promote the API Platform vision and drive its adoption.
The position can be located at the Sun Life office in Downtown Toronto, North York or Waterloo, depending on where a suitable candidate is found.

What will you do?

Reporting to the Director, API Platforms Consulting, the Senior API Platform Consulting Engineer will advise, guide, strategize, design and together with delivery teams build APIs in support of Sun Life business needs. The role will work very closely with the platform engineering team, the platform build team, enterprise architects (across domains) and delivery leads in order to gain an understanding of business needs and designing integration solution options.
The responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Develop long-term team and client relationships by providing excellent communication and successful project execution while evangelizing the use of the enterprise API Platform.
• Responsible for consultation around API standards and best practices with business delivery teams, key among them best practices around REST API\xe2\x80\x99s.
• Responsible for consultation around design and implementation of REST APIs leveraging core platform technologies and frameworks with business delivery teams.
• Document any defects, enhancements or new features identified by the delivery teams and raise these to the platform engineering team.
• Responsible for consultation around designing, running and interpreting performance and load-testing processes and implementing required optimizations.
• Work closely with clients to understand key business issues, gather and analyze requirements to develop impactful recommendations and solutions.
• Partner with business, and API teams to design, develop and demonstrate the value of implementing API Platform components using cloud based solutions.
• Work closely with the platform engineering team to ensure effective implementation of new technologies that support API Governance and standardization across Sun life.
• Implementation and execution of platform training curriculums for a variety audiences.
• Design, development, deployment and rollout of enterprise APIs both in the cloud and on premise.
• Design and implementation of event driven solutions leveraging the Event Hub.

What will you need to succeed?
This role requires the unique combination of technology and business knowledge. Each of these requires in excess of 5 years of working knowledge. The business knowledge must be acquired through involvement in a series of projects over a number of years. The technology knowledge requires a career spent in IT, focused on applications, delivery and API tools in particular. Must Have

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related area.
• Minimum of 5 years in Application and System Design, Development and Delivery and Operations.
• 5+ years experience in implementing continuous integration and delivery solutions.
• Experience in designing, developing and implementing APIs is a must.
• Previous experience with programming in Java is required
• 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 like Open API Spec, RAML.
• Strong engineering and delivery expertise in DevOps, Containers/Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka technologies.
• Demonstrated problem solving, communication and organizational skills, a positive attitude, and the proven ability to negotiate and influence others to obtain desired results. Strong professional consulting skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience with programming in C#, Python and/or Node.js are nice to have
• Previous experience with mainframe is an asset (IMS, DB2, Cobol, PL/1, JCL)
• Experience with scripting languages to automate operations tasks is a nice to have
• Exposure to API gateway solutions, not limited to Software AG, IBM API connect, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Kong is desired.
• Good working knowledge of API development in AWS Serverless environment working with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway etc.
• Good working knowledge of deploying components on Kubernetes, using Kustomize, Helm Charts and/or K8s operators.
• Good working knowledge for CI/CD solutions (like Jenkins, Ansible , CDD Continuous Delivery Director)
• Proficiency in building and deploying solutions with frameworks like Spring Boot, including secure coding practices, load-testing and performance optimization
• Exposure to modern event based architectures and patterns (event sourcing, choreography based SAGA Pattern)
• Exposure to building solutions using Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform is desired.
• Expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka technologies, Kafka Connect using Schema Registry, Kafka Broker, Zookeeper, KSQL, KStream, Kafka Control Center, Kafka Rest Proxy.
• Expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Deep understanding of Financial Services organizations is preferred

Competencies

• Ability to manage through influence in a complex and evolving environment to meet challenging time lines and organizational goals.
• Ability to establish and maintain a good team environment, develop a culture of innovation, collaboration within the team.
• Demonstrated problem solving, communication and organizational skills, a positive attitude, and the proven ability to negotiate and influence others to obtain desired results. Strong professional consulting skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate both internally and externally.
• Mature, confident, and performance-oriented.
• Capable of developing strong relationships with all levels of management.
• An excellent communicator, team player and someone who is intellectually honest.
• Ability to adapt thinking and response to the geographic differences across our global operations.

What\'s in it for you?

• Being part of our journey in developing the next greatest digital experience
• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
• A \xe2\x80\x98dress for the day\xe2\x80\x99 dress code, where you dictate how you dress based on your day

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. Salary Range: 82,000/82 000 - 135,000/135 000 Job Category: IT - Technology Services Posting End Date: 27/10/2023