Lead Software Engineer; JAVA, API

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.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our

Purpose:

helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Our teams are dedicated to supporting, enhancing and discovering new ways to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security, live healthier lives and connect with us. Through innovation and collaboration, we're striving to deliver best-in-class technology solutions for our digital clients.

We are currently seeking a Squad Tech Lead to provide technical design, development, support and analysis for large-scale applications and systems in a new agile team within the Canadian IT Platforms and Engineering team. This permanent role combines hands‑on technical work with leadership responsibilities. The successful candidate is a team player with excellent technical and problem‑solving skills, is aware of industry trends, questions the status quo and can identify and propose alternatives.

Come join us as we continue to intensify the focus on our digital journey, building APIs and improving our client experience.

• Collaborate with skilled Agile team members to understand user needs and design, develop and deliver high quality web applications that meet those needs
• Configure and design applications and workflows, using outside the box thinking, to create innovative ways to advance our client first strategy
• Lead AI-assisted development practices, leveraging Git Hub Copilot and other AI coding tools to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality
• Design, develop, and integrate AI agents and conversational interfaces to enhance application capabilities and deliver intelligent automation solutions
• Champion secure coding practices and lead efforts to identify, prioritize, and remediate application security vulnerabilities using SAST/DAST tools
• Conduct security code reviews and ensure compliance with security standards and best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Coach, mentor and collaborate with members of the design and development team
• Provide technical direction and guidance to projects, ensuring risks are mitigated and projects are implemented successfully
• Establish coding standards and technical best practices across the squad
• Conduct code reviews and mentor team members on technical excellence
• Support developers in removing technical blockers and guide technical implementation of user stories and features
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, and constraints to stakeholders
• Participate in planning and refinement sessions with technical perspective and collaborate with Product Owner on technical feasibility and estimates
• Drive quality standards and testing practices; identify technical debt and propose solutions
• Monitor system performance and reliability and champion continuous improvement initiatives
• Contribute to defining timelines and plans; analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, time and scope
• Ensure coding, testing, debugging, and implementation activities are completed as required
• Participate in agile ceremonies and support on-call and incident response when needed
• Represent the squad's technical interests in cross-squad discussions and collaborate with other Tech Leads across squads for consistency

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