Senior Software 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:

The Canadian IT, Platforms and Engineering (PnE) team is responsible for delivering best-in-class technology solutions for our digital clients, by collaborating with Architecture, Operations, Journey, and Platform teams. Our goal is to continuously grow and improve the engineering culture and discover new ways to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security, live healthier lives, and connect with us.
We seek a Senior Software Engineer to join an agile team and develop, support, and analyze large-scale applications and systems. The successful candidate would be a team player with strong technical and problem-solving skills, who shows initiative, and is accountable for results.

• Collaborate with business stakeholder, system architects and Agile team members to develop and deliver high quality solutions.
• Contribute to the estimation, planning and management of development tasks and provide regular updates on progress against those tasks.
• Ensure designs follow approved architecture and information security standards.
• Learn and incorporate emerging technologies into solutions.
• Write both unit and integration tests and develop automation tools.
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies; stand-ups, retrospectives, quarterly planning, etc., to mature the Agile team practice.
• Contribute to the ongoing support, stability and performance of production systems, including problem analysis and resolution.