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Sun Life Financial, Inc.

Specialist - Development

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The Specialist - Development at Sun Life will manage and enhance applications using Smalltalk and Java, design and participate in Agile projects, build service-oriented architectures, and mentor junior team members while ensuring code quality and continuous improvement.
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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.

Job Description:

Are you ready to shine?

At Sun Life, we empower you to be your most brilliant self.

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!

Key responsibilities:

  • Manage and extend the application built using Smalltalk , Java and its integration.

  • Design, build, and participate in end-to-end projects using Agile development process.

  • Build a distributed system based on service-oriented architecture and SOLID design principles.

  • Be able to pick up new technologies along their whole development stack including non-java ecosystems.

  • Be passionate about delivering quality code and build culture of continuous learning and improvement in team by identifying technical debts/improvements.

  • Have the desire to collaborate, and like sharing and learning from your colleagues

  • Provide input and guidance to resolve issues and meet objectives.

  • Contribute to developing and refining the existing development processes to enhance quality and productivity.

  • Coach and mentor junior members of the team

Key requirements:

  • BTech or MS degree in Computer Science from a reputed university

  • 3-7 years + years of full-stack, hands on experience designing developing of product development experience in designing and coding complex, enterprise, applications in Smalltalk and other object-oriented programming languages.

  • Software Design Patterns/SOLID principles.

  • Experience implementing architectural design patterns such as Event Driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, and Domain Driven design

  • Experience advanced knowledge of coding languages - Smalltalk, Java

  • Experience developing and working with databases (Oracle, MSSQL)

  • Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing

  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

  • Ability to coach and mentor junior members of the team

  • Experience working with teams across different time-zones and countries

  • Passion for excellence, passion for high quality materials and professionalism

  • Ensure product quality and timeliness of work

  • FinTech experience will be a plus

Primary Location: Gurgaon

Schedule: Shift A

Job Category:

IT - Digital Development

Posting End Date:

27/02/2025

Top Skills

Java
Smalltalk

Sun Life Financial, Inc. Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office

150 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 1J9

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