Senior API Platform Engineer

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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Who we are?

Sun Life is a leading financial services company with history of 150+ years 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!

Roles and Responsibilities

• The API Platform Engineer should be a senior level resource that has had at least 5 years experience in developing APIs and managing API Gateways and other API Platform Technologies.

• Conduct analysis on Business Requirements and prepares program specifications at the systems level for simple to minor systems or modules

• Develop or maintain, test and implement modules according to system specifications. Identify all possible scenarios and prepares tests for the systems under development.

• Executes test plan during development and system testing and provide user acceptance testing or other testing support as required to ensure that the system processing reflects user requirements / designs

• Provides post-implementation and production support for systems including analysis of production problems

• Performs implementation activities such as program promotions, installation of the system, training and tutorial for end users

• Performs development/update of the Users Manual, Systems Manual and Operations Manual Provides updates and status reports to the project manager during the course of a development and related support activities

• In charge of a system module. Identifies areas for improvement /enhancement on existing system module or on the entire system, and on new ones being developed

• Determines, analyzes, and transforms business requirements to produce design specifications at the system and programming levels

Key Requirements

• The API Platform Engineer must have had experience in developing backend applications (APIs, Microservices) preferably in Java, Springboot or NodeJS, docker development.

• Minimum 5 years of progressive information technology experience with backend / API development life cycle and systems integration experience.

• Strong knowledge on AWS, understanding of AWS data/automation services – Step functions, Lambda, EC2, Dynamo DB.

• Experience in managing and maintaining API Platform such as AWS API Gateway, Light4j Technologies, SwaggerHub, Postman and the like.

• Experience in building microservices with integration to third party partners

• Experience in Release Management and Configuration Management best practices

• Working knowledge of some tech stack from Java, J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, Eclipse, Unix, Windows Server

• Experience with source code management tools such as Bitbucket, Git, etc.

• Experience in using CI/CD Tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Junit, etc.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze business problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized solutions in a timely manner.

• Proven analysis and design/development skills on AWS platforms.

• Develop, Test, and Implement the changes following the Software Development Life Cycle

• methodologies and quality concepts.

• Experience in working in an Agile environment.

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