Senior Specialist Development

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 Specialist Development

Are you ready to shine?

At Sun Life, we empower you to be your most brilliant self.

  Who we are?

Sun Life is a leading financial services company with 157 years of history that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We serve millions in Canada, the U.S., Asia, the U.K., and other parts of the world. We have a network of Sun Life advisors, third-party partners, and other distributors. Through them, we’re helping set our clients free to live their lives their way, from now through retirement. We’re working hard to support their wellness and health management goals, too. That way, they can enjoy what matters most to them. And that’s anything from running a marathon to helping their grandchildren learn to ride a bike.

To do this, we offer a broad range of protection and wealth products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, including:

• Insurance. Life, health, wellness, disability, critical illness, stop-loss, and long-term care insurance
• Investments. Mutual funds, segregated funds, annuities, and guaranteed investment products
• Advice. Financial planning and retirement planning services
• Asset management. Pooled funds, institutional portfolios, and pension funds

With innovative technology, a strong distribution network and long-standing relationships with some of the world’s largest employers, we are today providing financial security to millions of people globally.

Sun Life is a leading financial services company that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives, with strong insurance, asset management, investments, and financial advice portfolios. At Sun Life, our asset management business draws on the talent and experience of professionals from around the globe.

Sun Life Global Solutions (SLGS)

 Established in the Philippines in 1991 and in India in 2006, Sun Life Global Solutions, (formerly Asia Service Centres), a microcosm of Sun Life, is poised to harness the regions’ potential in a significant way - from India and the Philippines to the world. We are architecting and executing a BOLDER vision: being a Digital and Innovation Hub, shaping the Business, driving Transformation and superior Client experience by providing expert Technology, Business and Knowledge Services and advanced Solutions. We help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives – our core purpose and mission.

Drawing on our collaborative and inclusive culture, we are reckoned as a ‘Great Place to Work’, ‘Top 100 Best Places to Work for Women’ and stand among the ‘Top 11 Global Business Services Companies’ across India and the Philippines.

The technology function at Sun Life Global Solutions is geared towards growing our existing business, deepening our client understanding, managing new-age technology systems, and demonstrating thought leadership. We are committed to building greater domain expertise and engineering ability, delivering end to end solutions for our clients, and taking a lead in intelligent automation. Tech services at Sun Life Global Solutions have evolved in areas such as application development and management, Support, Testing, Digital, Data Engineering and Analytics, Infrastructure Services and Project Management.

We are constantly expanding our strength in Information technology and are looking for fresh talents who can bring ideas and values aligning with our Digital strategy.

Our Client Impact strategy is motivated by the need to create an inclusive culture, empowered by highly engaged people. We are entering a new world that focuses on doing purpose driven work. The kind that fills your day with excitement and determination, because when you love what you do, it never feels like work. We want to create an environment where you feel empowered to act and are surrounded by people who challenge you, support you and inspire you to become the best version of yourself. As an employer, we not only want to attract top talent, but we want you to have the best Sun Life Experience.

We strive to Shine Together, Make Life Brighter & Shape the Future!

What will you do?

The role will work closely with a team of API developers, Designers team in SLGS and Canada in a mix of waterfall, Kanban and iterative development methodologies to design APIs by understanding the current technical landscape of the portfolio. We are looking for a Senior Specialist Development to join our fast paced and high performing Engineering team to support our digital transformations. You will use your engineering prowess and experience in building out data products that will be exposed via APIs and events to help us deliver core data, application pipelines and frameworks to provide great digital experiences to our clients The successful candidate will be an adaptable individual, who thrives on technical challenges & problem solving, is open to change and enjoys driving projects to successful completion. The candidate should be able to contribute to API Strategy, Design standards and best practices.

Your scope of work / key responsibilities:

• Build and deploy APIs and highly available services that adhere to internal governance controls and deployment platforms to support our digital transformations.
• Operate in a Shift-Left testing environment and prioritize writing efficient, tested and clear code
• Participate in improving the supportability and transparency of the applications and services we build by creating clear and comprehensive documentation, monitoring/alert systems and centralized logging.
• Collaborate with Designers, Business System Analysts, Application Analysts and Testing specialists to deliver high quality solutions.
• Contribute to design, develop, and lead other specialists / developers on API Design and Development.
• Execution of designs as it translates from concept to code.
• Provide development estimates at various levels of Building APIs.
• Support testing team while SQA phase of any project.
• Communicate effectively with business stakeholders, project managers, BSAs, designers and developers.
• Learn about existing business, existing applications, the infrastructure that supports them and the design patterns used and use them during building APIs to move to a more flexible architecture.
• Ensure SLF Information Security Policies are complied with in any solution.

Key Qualifications and experience

• A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 8 - 12 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle.
• Domain knowledge of Insurance.
• Experience in Spring MVC, Spring AOP, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Microservices – design and architecture, Containerization concepts.
• Working knowledge of Unit testing framework like Mockito etc.
• Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks (e.g., Hibernate) or any JPA
• Experience in SQL and No-SQL DBs like MongoDB etc.
• Working knowledge of GIT and Code version maintenance tool like Bitbucket or Github.
• Experience of working on Open API specification like Swagger.
• Good knowledge of coding best practices and should be able to do code review of peer.
• Should have a working knowledge of Docker containerization.
• Knowledge of container orchestration and deployment using Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Event driven architecture and design – Kafka etc.

• Work with developers to design algorithms and flowcharts as per specification provided.
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications and troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
• Design high-level framework architecture and scalable design, provide support and providing implementation best practices for development.
• Enterprise architecture expertise- designing application ecosystems consisting of many subcomponents.
• Experience with implementing continuous integration and delivery; CI/CD with their underlying technologies/tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Gradle/Maven, Artifactory).
• Experience with Microservice architecture – REST APIs, SQL, development, configuration, API Gateways, deployment to VM/Cloud environments.
• Experience with implementing API Security – OAuth etc.
• Experience with Containerization tools – hands-on.

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Technical Credentials: API Development, Kafka, Microservices, Rest API’s, Spring MVC, Spring AOP, Spring Boot, Spring Security.

Schedule: Full-time

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