Lead Software Engineer (Aem)

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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Digital Solutions is a team of skilled professionals who dedicate their careers to accelerating the growth of Sun Life’s digital platforms through technology-based solutions. We focus on looking for and seizing opportunities to leverage data in new ways as we continue to help our Clients achieve lifetime financial security, live healthier lives and connect with us. Come join us as we continue to intensify the focus on our digital journey, helping our clients and transforming our business in exciting ways!
We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer, proficient with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), to provide technical design, development, support and evaluation for large-scale content management applications and systems. 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.
What will you do?

• Provide technical guidance to projects ensuring risks are mitigated and projects are implemented successfully
• Work closely with onsite and offshore developers, as well as Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Assist technical support staff, project managers, and users as needed to support business applications by diagnosing complex production issues requiring extensive analysis and troubleshooting.
• Design and develop robust new AEM components or modify existing ones, including their configuration, Java code, client libraries, and templates that meet business, technical and quality requirements.
• Configure Apache/Dispatcher front-end web servers as needed for existing and new websites for web applications, integrations, and services
• Contribute to defining timelines and plans; research and estimate feasibility, cost, time and scope
• Review and approve/decline pull requests for merging code into the main branches of Bitbucket repository.
• Provide technical guidance to AEM developers around best practices in AEM development - both back-end and front-end execution

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years experience developing applications with AEM
• Experience integrating AEM with other Adobe Marketing Cloud products, such as Analytics, Target, Campaign
• Understanding the broader Adobe Marketing Cloud product stack, web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3, client-side scripting, and JavaScript frameworks
• 7+ years experience with Unix/Linux, web and web hosting technologies
• 5+ years hands on experience in creating OSGI bundles, AEM Templates/Components and Workflows.
• 7+ years of Web application development experience including REST, Java, J2EE, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, HTML5, CSS3 and ReactJS
• Experience with Adobe’s latest maven archetype for building AEM projects - NPM, specifically webpack (https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack) to allow for the use of Sass for compiled css files (https://sass-lang.com/) a definite bonus to have.
• 5+ years experience using DevOps tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, BitBucket, Maven, CDD/Ansible) and also Adobe Cloud Manager
• Strong experience in using the following aspects of AEM: Sling, Dialog Configuration, Authoring Environment, CRX DE, Package Manager, User Administration Area, Assets Area, OSGi consoles

Preferred skills:

• Customer obsession – customers are at the centre of all we do
• Adaptable to working on teams delivering in a Waterfall or agile style
• Coaching and mentoring skills to help strengthen your team
• Self-directed and proactive
• Flexible and adaptable with the ability to align to changing priorities

Additional Notes:

• Occasional travel between Sun Life locations (Toronto, Waterloo) may be required depending on work assignment
• Periodic weekend/after-hours work may be required to support project implementations and system upgrades.
• This role requires reliability check, this means that you have resided in Canada for the last 5 years.

What’s In It For You

• Flexible hours and periodic work from home options
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• Wide range of career growth opportunities within our team and the company
• Named 2021 “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor
• Competitive salary structure in an outcome-based environment, influenced by market range data
• Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US.
• An environment of continuous learning and improvement
• We’re proud to be a Best Workplace for Hybrid Work by Great Place to Work® Canada

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to [email protected].
At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary Range:
80,000/80 000 - 130,400/130 400
Job Category:
IT - Application Development
Posting End Date:
22/05/2023