Jobs at Sun Life Financial, Inc.

As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle complex problems in software engineering, design solutions, mentor teams, and improve production quality and pace, leveraging your expertise in technology for a digital product company.

Lead design, develop, deploy and maintain Java-based REST APIs and microservices using Spring Boot, Docker and Kubernetes. Build event-driven services with Kafka, improve CI/CD pipelines, debug/resolve defects, mentor colleagues, and support legacy APIs and integrations.

Lead program and project management for consolidating five legacy HR platforms into a single HR digital platform. Develop integrated plans, manage milestones, risks, resources, and cross-functional dependencies; drive HR process design, data conversion, testing, cutover and decommissioning; produce executive reporting and steering committee materials; facilitate stakeholder sessions and translate business requirements into technical requirements.

Temporary up to six-month advisor trainee role gaining hands-on experience in financial advice. Learn Sun Life products, obtain LLQP licensing, handle inbound/outbound client calls, perform business development, and work with advisor teams and district leadership to prepare for a transition to a full advisor role.

Temporary (up to six months) trainee role preparing candidates for an advisory career. Work from a local district office to learn Sun Life products, handle inbound/outbound client calls, obtain required licensing (LLQP), perform business development activities, receive coaching, and potentially transition to an Advisor role on program completion.

Lead development and governance of enterprise AI architecture, defining reusable AI services, patterns, and reference architectures. Drive architecture reviews and approvals, partner with business and risk teams to translate requirements into scalable, compliant AI solutions, and support implementation teams while ensuring responsible AI, security, and regulatory alignment.

Support sales by providing product insights, regulatory commentary (MRFP), training, and sales collateral maintenance. Monitor competitors, send weekly sales communications, answer inquiries, and position mutual funds and ETFs to drive commercial success.

Design, develop, test, and tune security detection use cases across SIEM/EDR/XDR, cloud, identity, network, and endpoint sources. Translate adversary tactics into detection logic, map to MITRE ATT&CK, reduce false positives, document use cases, support threat hunting and incident response, and track performance metrics to improve alert fidelity and detection coverage.

Lead design, development, testing, and lifecycle management of high-fidelity detection use cases across SIEM, EDR/XDR, cloud, identity, network, endpoint, and application telemetry. Translate adversary behaviors and threat intelligence into detection logic, tune alerts to reduce false positives, assess telemetry coverage, support purple-team exercises, mentor peers, and measure use case performance against operational metrics.

Financial Advisors at Sun Life build long-term client relationships, provide financial advice, develop financial roadmaps, and ensure clients' plans adapt to life changes.

As a Financial Advisor at Sun Life, you'll build relationships, provide financial advice, prepare strategies for clients, and continue professional development in a supportive environment.

Coordinate daily digital publishing operations: manage intake queue, triage requests, perform accessibility and QA audits, liaise with stakeholders, track data for reporting, maintain intake system and training materials, and support publishers and technical consultants to meet website deadlines and quality standards.

Lead the MLOps team focused on AWS cloud services and machine learning operations, design production-grade capabilities, and mentor other engineers.

Lead portfolio-level technology delivery for Sun Life's client-facing mobile application. Shape and execute 1–2 year technology roadmaps, drive engineering best practices, ensure operational stability, manage vendors and budgets, and develop engineering leaders. Partner with architecture, operations, product, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable mobile experiences while tracking metrics, reducing technical debt, and improving team agility and performance.

Provide first-level support and operational maintenance for Sun Life's local and WAN network infrastructure. Triage incidents per ITIL, coordinate with 2nd/3rd level teams and vendors, update documentation/KBs, perform device changes, assist projects, and occasionally travel between sites. May require after-hours work.

Design, develop, deploy and enhance the API platform and CDC solution (cloud and on‑prem). Implement automation and CI/CD, consult on API standards, debug and optimize performance, mentor team members, produce technical documentation, and collaborate with architects, platform engineers, operations and business delivery teams to ensure scalable, secure, governed API and event-driven solutions.

Provide project and event management support for talent, learning and recognition programs across Sun Life Canada. Manage the Applause recognition platform, administer iStars and CEO Award nomination processes, support global talent initiatives, prepare reporting and communications, coordinate events and vendors, maintain program data and SharePoint content, and partner with HRBPs and CoEs to deliver talent, learning and recognition activities.

Senior Data Analyst mines and analyzes prospect, client, and advisor data to generate insights that grow client acquisition and improve lead conversion. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, data extraction and analysis, KPI development, dashboarding and reporting automation, forecasting and plan support, triaging code/data issues, and collaborating with stakeholders to operationalize analytics-driven decisions.

As a Mainframe Software Engineer, you'll design and develop applications, analyze requirements, and collaborate with peers while ensuring system reliability and quality.

Lead development and maintenance of underwriting rules to increase straight-through underwriting. Analyze underwriting data, support analytical model development and monitoring, conduct protective value studies, drive cross-functional innovation projects, and train/support underwriting operations on tools and processes.