Senior API Platform Solutions Engineer — Remote/Hybrid

Sun Life; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Hybrid work model

Exposure to cutting-edge API platforms

Job summary

Sun Life is seeking a seasoned Solution Design Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and implement a CDC solution, ensuring real-time data replication and automated features. You’ll collaborate with global teams and drive API standardization across Sun Life.

The role requires navigating both cloud and on-prem environments, mentoring engineers, and shaping delivery solutions with strong emphasis on REST APIs and OpenAPI standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related area.
• 8+ years experience with programming in Java is required.
• 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.
• Knowledge of REST API design standards, good working knowledge of API design specifications like Open API.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, deployment and rollout of enhancements on the API Platform, both in the cloud and on premise.
• Participate in the design of delivery solutions, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Design and implement automation features to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Responsible for consultation around API standards and best practices with business delivery teams, key among them best practices around REST API’s.
• Leverage the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies platform development including a gateway/service-mesh, runtimes, security, logging, exception handling.
• Utilizing CI/CD Pipeline for API platform enhancements.
• Proactively identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions to resolve the same.
• Participate in designing, running and interpreting performance and load-testing processes and implementing required optimizations.
• Mentor and coach team members to bring them up to speed on build and deployment best practices.
• Ensure projects are following best practices around continuous integration and delivery.
• Work closely with the business and technology partners to ensure effective implementation of new technologies that support API Governance and standardization across Sun life.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the CDC solution, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides and troubleshooting steps.
• Continuously identify and implement enhancements to improve the scalability and performance of the CDC solution.

Skills

Java

DevOps

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud

REST API design

OpenAPI

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Spring Boot

Jenkins

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

Job description

Sun Life is seeking a seasoned Solution Design Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and implement a CDC solution, ensuring real-time data replication and automated features. You’ll collaborate with global teams and drive API standardization across Sun Life.

The role requires navigating both cloud and on-prem environments, mentoring engineers, and shaping delivery solutions with strong emphasis on REST APIs and OpenAPI standards.