Senior Software Engineer (AWS, Gen AI)

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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Are you an experienced and versatile Senior or Lead Software Engineer with a wide range of technical skills and a passion for driving innovation? If you excel in a collaborative environment and are eager to contribute to innovative projects, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team!

What you will do?

• Make critical coding judgments to ensure high quality and scalable solutions, such as implementing caching strategies, designing for performance and scalability needs, writing unit and integration tests, developing APIs, and conducting code reviews. Additional responsibilities include working with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and API development frameworks such as API Platform.
• Design and maintain infrastructure as code solutions using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to support ML and analytics workloads
• Build and optimize LLMOps pipelines for training, fine-tuning and deploying large language models at scale. Integrate emerging LLMOps frameworks such as LangChain, Hugging Face and vector database technologies for advanced AI applications.
• Analyze, investigate, and recommend solutions for continuous improvements, process enhancements, identify pain points, and more efficient workflows. Create templates, standards, and models to facilitate future implementations and adjust priorities when necessary.
• Demonstrate that you are a collaborative communicator by fearlessly and confidently speaking up, bringing people together, facilitating meetings, recording minutes and actions, and rallying the team towards a common goal.
• Utilize Jira and Confluence to efficiently manage project workflows, track progress, and facilitate collaboration. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, using Agile methodologies for project development.
• Develop automated testing and validation pipelines for ML models to ensure consistent performance and compliance
• Contribute to architectural decisions related to ml infrastructure and analytics platforms to support long-term scalability

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree, or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in related field.
• Strong Experience building ML Pipelines, managing AI applications on AWS Platform
• Experience in Machine Learning Operations and familiarity with Large Language Model Operations (MLOps, LLMOps)
• Extensive experience using DevOps Tools designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines, CI workflows using Jenkins. A strong working knowledge of Jenkins, Terraform.
• Proficiency in Git, Python, Java and conducting code reviews.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and project management tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services (such as S3, Lambda, Step Functions, SageMaker, Bedrock, Event Bridge, SNS, Service Catalog) and serverless architectures
• Familiarity with Remote Management Tools, SSH, and Console View.
• Canadian Enhanced Reliability Clearance is required.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re honored to be recognized as a 2024 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• 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.

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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.

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you! Several 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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