1745 - Senior Software Engineer - 2 Resources

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Position title: 1745 - Senior Software Engineer - 2 Resources

Working Status: Hybrid (primarily remote; anticipated onsite 1–2 days per quarter)

Location: Candidate may sit at any of the following (role is primarily remote):

2255 Sheppard Ave E, North York OR 1 York Street, Toronto OR 227 King St S, Kitchener

Target Start Date: ASAP

Work Hours: Monday–Friday, core hours 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (teams typically work 9–5 or 8–4)

Job description

Overview of the Two Positions

Both roles support cloud native engineering work on AWS, but each aligns to a different team:

Role 1 – Snowflake Platform & AI/FinOps Enablement

This role supports the Managed Snowflake Platform Team, which owns Snowflake onboarding and platform operations for Sun Life’s internal clients. Work includes:

• Cortex AI enablement and governed model RBAC
• FinOps chargeback and AI/serverless cost attribution
• Collibra integrated data governance (autoclassification, lineage, metadata sync)
• Migration of onboarding portal → standalone admin API/Lambda service
• Governed OpenFlow RDBMS integration
• Standardized dbt on Snowflake operating model

Nice-to-have skills (highly valued): Terraform, Snowflake, Lambda

Role 2 – Data Control Plane (No Snowflake/Terraform Required)

This role supports the Data Control Plane Team, which manages ingestion and governance of data entering Sun Life’s data lake and data warehouse environments.

• Primarily S3-based ingestion
• Some Postgres usage
• General data onboarding and environment support

This role does NOT require Snowflake or Terraform experience.

Role Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, this candidate will design, develop, and support modern cloud-native applications and data solutions on AWS. You will work across software engineering, data platforms, and DevOps practices to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. The role involves hands-on development, automation, troubleshooting, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Contractors will primarily handle junior-level tasks that do not require deep Sun Life-specific knowledge, allowing senior team members to focus on complex platform work.

What you will do:

• Analyze, investigate, and recommend solutions to improve processes, enhance operational efficiency, identify pain points, and optimize development workflows.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, standards, reusable frameworks, and implementation templates.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies to plan, develop, test, and deliver software solutions.
• Utilize Jira and Confluence to manage work, track progress, document requirements, and support team collaboration.
• Implement and follow source control best practices using Git, Bitbucket, and modern branching strategies such as GitFlow and Trunk-Based Development.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Python and Java.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
• Assist with infrastructure automation, provisioning, and configuration management using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of distributed systems and microservices-based applications.
• Work with cloud-native technologies and AWS services to build scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive solutions.
• Partner with team members to promote engineering best practices, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and implementation plans

Critical Skills / Must-Haves:

1. Python — primary development language; essential per manager
2. AWS — Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, API Gateway, serverless fundamentals
3. Git/Bitbucket — source control, branching strategies, code collaboration
4. Jenkins & CI/CD — build automation, pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Harness
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