Job Description

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.

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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!

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, development, deployment, and rollout of components involved our Enterprise Event Hub Platforms, on premise and cloud.
• Participate in the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies event driven development including Kafka Connect, Schema, logging, exception handling, etc.
• Utilizing the API Platform CI/CD Pipeline for event hub lifecycle.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the (Change Data Capture) solution, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides and troubleshooting steps.
• Continuously identify and implement enhancements to improve the scalability and performance of the CDC solution.
• Identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions to resolve the same.
• Develop an understanding of project best practices around continuous integration and delivery.

Key Requirements

• Overall 10 to 15 years of experience is required
• 6+ years experience with programming in Java is required.
• 4+ years experience with Apache Kafka and Kafka streams is required.
• Work experience in REST APIs and Event Driven Solutions.
• Work experience in DevOps, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud.
• Understanding of APIs, Event Driven Solutions, DevOps, containers, Kubernetes and cloud.
• Self starter with tenacious inquisitiveness and a desire to learn who will proactively find and explore solutions and provide recommendations.
• Exposure to modern event-based architectures and patterns (event sourcing, choreography-based SAGA Pattern)

Nice to Have

• Previous experience with programming in Python and/or JavaScript are nice to have.
• Experience with scripting languages to automate operations tasks is a nice to have.
• Knowledge of solution development in AWS Serverless environment working with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway etc.
• Awareness of how to deploy components on Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD solutions (like Jenkins, Groovy, CDD Continuous Delivery Director).
• Proficiency in building and deploying solutions with frameworks like Spring Boot, including secure coding practices, load-testing and performance optimization.
• Awareness of modern event-based architectures and patterns (event sourcing, choreography-based SAGA Pattern).
• Exposure to building solutions using Apache Kafka or the Confluent Platform.
• Awareness of Financial Services and Insurance

Job Category:


IT - Application Development Posting End Date:


30/12/2024