Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Our Senior Software Engineer - Pega will have overall responsibility for the design, development, technical delivery and overall quality of Pega solutions. They will contribute to agile team goals by collaborating with other functions in the team, as well as developing specifications, code, and documents in order to ensure successful implementation and maintenance of solutions.

What will you do?

• Perform and coordinate complex application programming activities

• Contribute to agile team goals by collaborating with other functions in the team, actively participating in Scrum ceremonies

• Develop specifications, code, and documents in order to ensure successful implementation and maintenance of solutions

• Participate in scope definition workshops and owns delivery of the completed work.

• Share complexities as an input into costs for a project and helps estimate work effort.

• Collaborate with architects, designers/developers, business system analysts and testing specialists to deliver high quality solutions

• Produce both high-level and detailed-level designs and implement Pega solutions based on business requirements and defined architectures

• Contribute to defining timelines and project plans; analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, time and scope

• Ensure information security standards and requirements are incorporated into all solutions

• Contribute to the ongoing support, stability and performance of application systems in production including problem analysis, resolution, and escalation and reporting as necessary. 

• Coordinate with both onshore and offshore teams to ensure coding, testing, debugging and implementation activities are completed as required

• Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, interface design, internal and external checks, controls, and outputs

What do you need to succeed?

• 2 years’ experience designing and delivering complex Pega case management projects

• Demonstrated experience in solution design for Pega based solutions encompassing internal facing and external facing applications

• Advanced knowledge of BPM concepts, techniques, tools and delivery approaches

• Minimum 3 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience

• Knowledge of the PRPC Architecture, as well as PRPC design & implementation features.

• Strong data modeling experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and can explain concepts to both business and IT stakeholders 

• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall environments

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family

• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security

• Work-life balance by scheduling your day around your priorities and having more time to spend on the important things

• An environment of continuous learning and improvement

Special Notes:

• Occasional weekend / after-hours work may be required to support project implementations, system upgrades and support for production environments

• IT supports internal business clients in Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. Occasional travel between these locations may be required.

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.

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