City : Toronto

Category : Full-time

Industry : Finance

Employer : Sun Life Financial

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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Role Summary:

At Data & Analytics Engineering our team is focused on enabling analytics at Sun Life through delivering robust, scalable, secure and reusable platforms and services that operate within our Enterprise Cloud, API and DevOps environments.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our fast paced and high performing Data Engineering team to provide data and analytics capabilities to our business. You will use your engineering prowess and experience building out data platforms to help us deliver core data and application pipelines, frameworks and infrastructure that enable our business to provide insights and respond to the needs of our clients in real-time.

Note: The ability to attain Reliability Status Clearance for this role is essential. When you are required to apply for this clearance, you must have lived continuously in Canada for the last 5+ years. No exceptions please.

What you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or Technology

• Minimum 5+ years of experience working with the following: 

  • Scala, Java 8+ and Python3 programming languages

  • Docker and container-orchestration tools like Kubernetes

  • Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible

  • traditional Big Data suite (e.g., HDFS, MapReduce/Spark/etc.)

  • streaming technologies, such as Kafka

  • SQL databases, such as Postgres

  • a Cloud Service Provider (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)

• Familiarity with the Microservice Architectures

• Familiarity with various NoSQL database designs (e.g. Key-Value, Document, Wide-Column, Graph, etc.).

• Knowledge of basic Machine Learning concepts (e.g. classification versus regression, bias-variance tradeoff, etc.)

Preferred Skills

• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), combined with strong interpersonal skills.

• Experience with either Kanban or Scrum working methodologies.

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.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible 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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