Lead Software Engineer
Ville : North York
Catégorie : Full-time
Industrie : Finance
Employeur : 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.
Job Description:
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 Corporate IT team is looking for Lead Software Engineer with at least 10 years of JAVA application support, analysis, and development experience.
The successful incumbent will have strong technical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently. As a member of the team that supports JAVA applications, responsibilities include application support, responding to service requests, debugging and problem solving, security reviews, maintaining stability, requirements analysis, performance and tuning, application development and unit testing, writing technical specifications, as well as participation in transitions to support and design reviews. The desirable candidate will show initiative, be accepting of responsibility and be accountable for results.
What will you do?
- Provide ongoing support of JAVA application systems in production including responding to service requests, problem analysis, resolution, escalation and reporting as necessary.
- Identify and participate in improvement, system renewal, stability, upgrade, and Disaster Recovery projects.
- As a member of the operations support team, interface with developers, infrastructure teams, system designers, business system analysts, application analysts and testing specialists to deliver high quality solutions and maintain a stable, high performing application environment.
- Create and maintain supporting documentation.
- Participate in various review processes - e.g Business Requirements, Test plans, Design reviews, etc to gain a solid understanding of the application and provide input into the various deliverables from a support perspective.
- Design, develop, code, test, and debug programs for various projects.
- This role includes on-call and after hours support on a team rotation basis.
What do you need to succeed?
- 10+ years of information technology experience in JAVA application support and development
- University degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Strong working knowledge of Java, J2EE, Weblogic, Eclipse
- Experience with Spring Boot and Spring MVC Frameworks for application development.
- Experience with Hibernate, JPA (Java Persistent Architecture Framework) for DB interactions.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostGreSQL)
- Strong knowledge of Web technologies (HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, MVC)
- Experience with Unix, Ajax, WebSphere Liberty
- Experience with the DevOps tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CDD, Ansible)
- Experience with cloud based platforms (AWS Amazon Web Services)
- Experience with Python/PySpark is an asset
- Solid understanding of distributed application packaging, deployment, and performance management
- Experience with React.js technologies is an asset
- Strong leadership, planning, organizational and consulting skills
- Ability to communicate effectively to technical and nontechnical audiences and work with business partners as well as infrastructure teams.
- Self-starter, fast learner, and ability to multitask.
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.
Salary Range:
82,000/82 000 - 135,000/135 000Job Category:
IT - Application DevelopmentPosting End Date:
18/04/2024