Senior Java Design Engineer

at  Sun Life

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:

You are as unique as your background, your experience, and your point of view. At Sun Life, 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.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• 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 coupled with the self-awareness to seek help when needed
• Ability to effectively communicate both internally and externally.
• Mature, confident, and performance-oriented
• Capable of developing strong relationships with peers
• 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.

ROLE SUMMARY

We’re in the need of an eager, self-motivated developer who is ready to use their education as a foundation to grow their skills into something more special. 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 Engineering, the Solution Design Engineer is responsible for design, development, deployment and implementation of the Enterprise Event Hub Components.
The individual in this role will grow their own skill set by working very closely with a team of cutting-edge software engineers to introduce new innovations to Sun Life.

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

• Participate in the design, development, deployment, and rollout of components involved our Enterprise Event Hub Platforms, on premise and cloud.
• Participate in the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies event driven development including Kafka Connect, Schema, logging, exception handling, etc.
• Utilizing the API Platform CI/CD Pipeline for event hub lifecycle.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the (Change Data Capture) solution, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides and troubleshooting steps.
• Continuously identify and implement enhancements to improve the scalability and performance of the CDC solution.
• Identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions to resolve the same.
• Develop an understanding of project best practices around continuous integration and delivery.