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.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

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 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.

What will you do?

• Work within an Agile pod to build core data and analytics platforms, applications and self-service capabilities

• Build robust data pipelines that integrate data from various sources to enable analytics in our Cloud environment.

• Build and deploy APIs and highly available services that adhere to internal governance controls and deployment

platforms

• Work closely with our data science and analytics partners to deliver useful integration and delivery pipelines to

facilitate various analytics use-cases like recommendation systems

• 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

What you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or technology

• 2+ 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

What’s in it for you:

• We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2026 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®,  for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health.
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office

This role requires Reliability Status Clearance. In addition to a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check, as part of your application, the Government of Canada will ask if you lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months during the last 5 years, and you must account for all activities during this time. Important: Obtaining Reliability Status Clearance within a reasonable amount of time is a condition required to start employment for this role at Sun Life.

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 [email protected].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

65,000/65 000 - 105,000/105 000

Job Category:

IT - Technology Services

Posting End Date:

04/08/2026