IJP - Principal Solution Designer

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 157 years of history 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)

With 32 years of operations in the Philippines and 17 years in India, 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!

What will you do?

The individual will use his/her knowledge of design, development, information security and IT architecture best practices to ensure delivery of robust applications that follow architectural processes and direction. The role will work closely with onshore North American IT teams using a mix of agile and iterative development methodologies, delivering Java design and development.

Our engineering career framework helps our engineers to understand the scope, collaborative reach, and levers for impact at every job role and defines the key behaviors and deliverables specific to one’s role and team and plan their career with Sun Life.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proficient in designing complex solutions for business problems using emerging tech stack, integrating with legacy & modern infra, to develop scalable and reliable solutions.

• Effectively utilize, influence, and lead multiple software development and deployment methodologies, development best practices and DevOps/DevSecOps principles

• Person should be able to design complex solutions on at-least 2 technologies and provide end to end solution for one area

• Lead & own code reviews and can sign off on medium/large features my Squad/ Project/ POD.

• Demonstrate strong ownership of the vision/roadmap ensuring project alignment.

• Key participant in providing estimates and identifying key stakeholders

• Working as a lead and able to migrate applications end to end. Needs to be a hands-on developer.

• Working with the team to guide them, understand any technical issues and troubleshoot them.

• Doing regular code reviews and sharing feedback with the team.

• Having connects with onshore partners for design discussions, architectural discussions etc.

• Strong focus on continuous improvement (CI) and innovation. Someone who will be a role model for the team to focus on Cis.

Key Qualifications:

• Overall, 10-15 years of experience with 10+ years of experience in Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Development using Java/J2EE

• Working experience in the following technologies is preferred Java/J2EE, AWS Serverless, Spring, Spring Boot, JDBC, ReactJS, JavaScript

• 2 years of experience in development in AWS Serverless (Lambda, SQS, SNS)

• Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment architecture, Workload modeling, Data modeling etc.

• Excellent understanding of software development methodologies, design pattern, design principles and modern architectures.

• Experience in performance testing and optimization of JEE systems on any of the following application servers

• Experience using the Agile development process

• Experience with networking protocol or networking software development.

• Experience with standard development tools like Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ is required.

• Knowledge of software development methodology, DevOps tools (like Jenkins, Terraform, Bit Bucket, CDD, SonarQube, Ansible, CI-CD Pipeline), and product life cycle.

• Excellent team skills, can-do attitude, focus on quality, and drive to make a difference in a dynamic, fast-paced organization.

• Experience in interfacing with the customers.

• Experience in Architecture consulting engagements is a definite plus.

• Ability to mentor development teams and guide them in resolving complex technical issues encountered in projects.

• Understanding of latest technologies and tools in the JEE space and an ability to evaluate, select and propose tools and technologies to meet the requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Tolerance to ambiguities

Technical Credential: Java , AWS

Primary Location: Gurgaon/Bangalore

Schedule: 12-8:30 PM

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