Senior 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.

Senior Engineer
This role involves the support of our data organization. The role will cover ETL support  and data lake support. There are numerous technologies used by the team (SQL, Oracle, Crystal Reports, SSRS, LOGI, Tableau Informatica, SSIS etc..) so the candidate will have the opportunity to learn or strengthen a wide range of skills. In addition to supporting these processes the role will involve creation of new ETL processes, reports etc. from time to time. The role will involve on call off hours support as part of a regular scheduled rotation.
 

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Monitoring of our ETL processes and reports where necessary
• Troubleshooting failures in our production environment
• Resolving issues and restarting production processes in a timely fashion
• Dealing directly with our internal business partners to help get to the root of a reported problem.
• Providing detailed updates on work assignments to managers

Requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years post qualification experience in a software engineering role with exposure to the full SDLC (Software and product Development Life Cycle), preferably on enterprise scale systems

All or a combination of the below skillsets:

• Strong Microsoft BI skills (Microsoft stack experience as a very basic minimum).
• Experience with Business Intelligence and reporting tools such as Business Objects, Crystal or LOGIXML.
• Experience with ETL tools such as PowerCenter Informatica.
• Job scheduling experience (Autosys, Control M)
• Experience of working in the financial services sector (particularly insurance, ideally group benefits)
• AWS Cloud experience desirable but not essential (EC2, EMR, S3, Kinesis, Dynamo, API (Application Programming Interface) Gateway & LAMDA)

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Technically minded problem solver
• Basic engineering, system administration and software development (programming) foundation
• Ability to apply basic testing skills, tools/frameworks, techniques, processes and principles to software solutions in support of defect management and reporting
• Basic knowledge of performance testing coding best practices, and load and performance testing
• Familiarity with and ability to utilize multiple software development methodologies, processes, development best practices and DevOps principles
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to Communicate effectively with business partners
• Technical knowledge of ETL processes , reporting tools, etc.
• Ability to solve technical problems

Our Affirmative Action Program affirms our commitment to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitation of otherwise-qualified individuals with disabilities or special disabled veterans, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please email recruitingUS@sunlife.com to request an accommodation.

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.

IT - Application Development

01/07/2024

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.