Specialist - Pega Development

Sun Life Financial; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life Global Solutions in the Philippines seeks a senior Pega-focused IT professional to design and deliver enterprise-grade applications. You will lead a development team, implement Pega best practices, and drive code quality across modules.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, requirement gathering, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to shape secure and scalable digital solutions.

Qualifications

• Total Experience: 5-8 years in IT / digital development.
• Mandatory certification: Pega CSSA.
• Strong knowledge of Pega design and code quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Designs applications from scratch and maps organizational structures.
• Leads development teams and ensures Pega best practices.
• Performs code reviews and ensures application quality.

Skills

Pega API

Integration

JavaScript API

Object oriented design

RBAC ABAC CBAC

Leadership

Requirement gathering

Code reviews

Education

Pega CSSA Certification

Tools

Pega CSSA

Pega Application Design Best practices

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. 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.

Job Description

Are you ready to shine? At Sun Life, we empower you to be your most brilliant self. 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

• Must have experience in designing application from Scratch, designing situational layer cake & Enterprise class structure and Mapping of Organization structure, Data Modeling best practices
• Must have experience on Pega API, Integration And JavaScript API, Listeners, Email Channel
• Must have knowledge of Object oriented development concepts, SSO, Authentication, RBAC, ABAC, CBAC
• Strong leadership and communication skills for requirement gathering, design thinking sessions and derive DCO sessions
• Lead development team technically and ensure implementation of Pega best practice.
• Responsible for design, implementation and delivery of user stories as per Pega best practices.
• Perform code reviews and ensure all compliances with application quality.

Qualification & Experience

• Total Experience: 5-8 years
• Min Experience in Pega: 4+ years
• Mandatory certification: Pega CSSA
• Mandatory Skills: Pega Application Design Best practices and Code Quality

Job Category: IT - Digital Development

Posting End Date: 11/09/2026

Shine together At Sun Life, you can be your most brilliant self. Our supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment is one where you – and your career – can thrive. Whatever your aspirations, collaborative leaders and colleagues are ready to help you learn, grow, and succeed. Make life brighter We’re a global company with a passion for people. Our purpose is to help Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

As a team of 30,000 across 26 countries, our impact is far-reaching, and locally relevant There’s power in numbers. As part of Sun Life’s growing team, you have an impact on people in your community and around the world. Shape the future With an optimistic eye on a brighter future, we drive to innovate. Be part of leading change, push boundaries and try new ways of working. Use data to drive bold actions. Be agile and pivot as we test and learn. At Sun Life, we’re driving transformation, sustainability and innovation for our Clients, employees, partners, and communities. Join us. Together, we can make the future brighter. Join a top employer for a brighter future.