Senior API Platform Solutions Design Engineer (Java)

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.

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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.

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Job Description

We’re in the need of an eager, self-motivated lead who is ready to use their education as a foundation to grow their skills along with mentoring junior team members. This role sits at the forefront of innovation at Sun Life and is focused in delivering APIs to market in a way no other insurer in Canada is doing it. You will be a developer and a key member of the team defining the next generation of delivery for the insurance industry.

What will you do?

Reporting to the Director, API Platform Adoption, the Solution Design Engineer is responsible for designing, development, deployment and implementation of existing change data capture solution (CDC) to ensure real-time data replication, designing and implementing automation features, consulting with business delivery teams, and contributing to the design of delivery solutions.

The role works very closely with the Enterprise Architects (across domains and platforms), platform Engineers, enterprise event hub engineers, operations team and the governance Team. A key function of this role involves establishing and maintaining strong relationships with global business delivery teams.

The responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Lead the design, development, deployment and rollout of enhancements on the API Platform, both in the cloud and on premise.
• Participate in the design of delivery solutions, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Design and implement automation features to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Responsible for consultation around API standards and best practices with business delivery teams, key among them best practices around REST API’s.
• Leverage the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies platform development including a gateway/service-mesh, runtimes, security, logging, exception handling.
• Utilizing CI/CD Pipeline for API platform enhancements.
• Proactively identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions to resolve the same.
• Participate in designing, running and interpreting performance and load-testing processes and implementing required optimizations.
• Mentor and coach team members to bring them up to speed on build and deployment best practices.
• Ensure projects are following best practices around continuous integration and delivery.
• Work closely with the business and technology partners to ensure effective implementation of new technologies that support API Governance and standardization across Sun life.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the CDC solution, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides and troubleshooting steps.
• Continuously identify and implement enhancements to improve the scalability and performance of the CDC solution.

What will you need to succeed?

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related area.
• 8+ years experience with programming in Java is required.
• Work experience in DevOps, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud.
• Understanding of APIs, Event Driven Solutions, DevOps, containers, Kubernetes and cloud.
• Self starter with tenacious inquisitiveness and a desire to learn who will proactively find and explore solutions and provide recommendations.
• Knowledge of REST API design standards, good working knowledge of API design specifications like Open API.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of building solutions using Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform.
• Previous experience with programming in Python and/or JavaScript is nice to have.
• Experience with scripting languages to automate operations tasks is a nice to have.
• Knowledge of solution development in AWS Serverless environment working with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway etc.
• Awareness of how to deploy components on Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD solutions (like Jenkins, Groovy, CDD Continuous Delivery Director).
• Proficiency in building and deploying solutions with frameworks like Spring Boot, including secure coding practices, load-testing and performance optimization.
• Awareness of modern event-based architectures and patterns (event sourcing, choreography-based SAGA Pattern).
• Awareness of Financial Services and Insurance

Competencies

• Ability to manage through influence in a complex and evolving environment to meet challenging timelines 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?

• We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2024 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®, for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health.
• We’re proud to be recognized as a company with a 2023 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health - mental, physical, and financial
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office

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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