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:

Software Engineer (Developer / ServiceNow Experience)

You are passionate about technology and this digital era. You are an agent of change, looking forward to a meaningful and impactful role. You seek challenges, take risks, and live your life intensively. You work well with others; you listen but also speak your mind clearly. You see solutions instead of obstacles; you get inspired and try to inspire. You believe that change is possible, and you can make it happen.

About the role

The Technology and Transformation Strategy team is looking for a Software Engineer with experience developing, implementing, supporting, and analyzing large-scale applications, pipelines and tooling systems that support the end-to-end development process.

To be successful in this role, you will have been a Software Engineer with at least 2 years experience in Java and have DevOps Build and Deployment Engineering experience (CI/CD).  CI/CD refers to pipeline and tools that focus on the software build, test, packaging, and deployment automation including tools and processes.

The successful candidate will have strong technical and problem-solving skills and will show initiative, be accepting of responsibility and be accountable for results.

What will you do?

• Provide packaging instructions to our software rollout teams for key software that is needed by our development teams, including IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Android Studio.
• Test software rollout packages to ensure they work on various configurations, such as Windows and macOS.
• Build example applications and pipelines for use by applications development teams when onboarding and training new members.
• Build applications in Java for automating the process in a modular way using APIs (REST web services) built on the Sun Life API platform powered by tools like SwaggerHub and RapidAPI.
• Create pipeline code in technology appropriate scripting or programming languages depending on the context of the technology being delivered (Java, .NET, and more)
• Collaborate with team members to deliver fully automated CI/CD systems.
• Deploys, configures, manages, and performs ongoing maintenance of DevOps pipeline, metrics gathering and tools automation code.
• Be the custodian of shared DevOps pipeline code and scripts for multiple technologies.
• Provide, maintain, and manage the appropriate release policy, processes, standards, and procedures.
• Create or improve the automated deployment processes, techniques, and tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical operational issues related to DevOps pipeline.
• Ensure information security standards and requirements are incorporated into all solutions.
• Stay current with trends in emerging technologies and how they could apply to Sun Life.

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a strong, collaborative multi-site team.
• Excellent organizing, planning and time management skills.
• Self-directed and proactive; thinking beyond the immediate problem with ability to analyze situations/problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized solutions in a timely manner.
• Possess an inherent passion for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Customer and results focused.
• Flexible and adaptable with the ability to align to changing priorities.

What you need to succeed:

• University Degree or College Diploma in a Computer Science or Technology
• 2+ years of development experience in Java and experience with full application development life cycle
• Experience with scripting languages such as Groovy and Shell
• Working knowledge of some of Java, J2EE, Liberty, Tomcat, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Microsoft .NET, Unix, Windows Server, IIS, IBM DevOps (IDz, zUnit, DBB, UrbanCode Deploy)
• Experience with source code management tools such as Bitbucket, Git, Azure DevOps Server.
• Experience in using and configuring build tools and orchestration such as Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Artifactory.

Assets:

• DevOps background with a security and automation mindset.
• Knowledge of automated deployment (examples: Ansible, Chef) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) tooling IaaS/PaaS/SaaS deployment and operations experience.
• Knowledge of security tools such as SonarQube, JFrog Xray, BurpSuite, Synopsys Seeker.
• Experience owning pipeline code in production, as well as designing and creating deployment pipelines, configure tooling and monitoring.
• Hardware and application virtualization platform experience
• Knowledge of Active Directory
• Knowledge of the financial and insurance industries
• System Administrator experience
• Agile experience
• Development experience in C#, .NET, .ASP, or COBOL
• J2EE and .NET application build and deployment automation experience.
• Jira, Confluence, MS Teams experience, Liberty, Tomcat
• Knowledge of web technologies (examples: React, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5 and CSS), related protocols and standards (examples: HTTP, SSL, SQL, XML)

Unique / Additional Requirements:

• We know there are endless tools in the DevOps toolbox, and we don’t expect you to come in as an expert on everything, but you are looking forward to experimenting and learning.

What’s in it for you:

• Recognized as a 2023 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work®
• As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office.
• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data.
• Pension, stock, and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security.
• An environment of continuous learning and improvement

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 - Application Development

Posting End Date:

31/07/2026