Senior Specialist Development API

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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Senior API Platform Solutions Design Engineer – Canada

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.
Role Summary
Job Description
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.

 
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 Platform Adoption, the Solution Design Engineer will be 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.

What will you need to succeed?
 

Must Have

• 8+ years experience with programming in Java is required.
• Work experience in REST APIs and Event Driven Solutions.
• Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka, Kafka Stream and Kafka connectors.
• Work experience in DevOps, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud.
• Knowledge of solution development in AWS Serverless environment working with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway etc.
• 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.
• Exposure to modern event-based architectures and patterns (event sourcing, choreography-based SAGA Pattern)

Nice to Have

• Previous experience with programming in Python and/or JavaScript are nice to have.
• Experience with scripting languages to automate operations tasks is a nice to have.
• 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).
• Exposure to building solutions using Apache Kafka or the Confluent Platform.
• Awareness of Financial Services and Insurance

Competencies
 

• 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.

What's in it for you?
 

• Augmenting your current studies with real and practical application of what you have learned to date.
• Working with one of the most cutting edge and innovative teams within Sun Life
• Being part of our journey in developing the next greatest digital experience
• A ‘dress for the day’ dress code, where you dictate how you dress based on your day
• Flexible work arrangements that will allow you to work from home while collaborating with our globally disbursed team

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