Sun Life

Solution Designer

Posted: 19 hours ago

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.Job Description:Job DescriptionThe role is responsible in providing direction, inputs, and sign-off on projects which can affect assigned domain/s.He needs to ensure the overall integrity, sustainability, and robustness of system design across the entire system’s development lifecycle.He needs to have knowledge of the existing technology landscape and align the design and recommendations with the company's overall systems strategy and any applicable IT standards. Role will be focused around designing a solution that is as elegant, optimized, modularized and reusable as possible --ensuring the design is flexible and extensible. Handles area/s within a specific domain. Designs solutions to solve business problems in the area assigned to him. Works closely with the Project Teams on developing Solutions and guiding Systems Analysts and Developers, ensuring that what they develop as code adheres to the Design approved.Main ResponsibilitiesEstablishes domain expertise and serve as solutions subject matter expert. Provides design direction and recommendations in terms of software solutions, infrastructure, methodologies, skills and talents, and innovation.Works with Project Teams, Enterprise Architect, and different IT teams in creating holistic solutions across several domains.Acts as custodian of Design and Development best practices which will need to be cascaded and upheld to the development teams.Co-creates architecture submissions along with the project teams and aligns with Architecture Team prior to presentation.Perform proof of concepts needed to support the viability of the proposed solution.Can do development tasks as needed to augment the development team.KnowledgeSystems Development Life Cycles, its stages, major tasks and deliverablesAgile / Waterfall methodogiesInsurance principles, terminology, policies and proceduresAt least 4 year experience in system analysis, solutioning and coding preferably in insurance or financial industryHave experience in any of the following capabilities to support insurance business: Client on-boarding Advisor on-boarding Insurance after-sales administration Financial payment and disbursement Accounting and other financial fieldsCore Professional / Technical Competencies RequiredMust have strong analytical and conceptual skills, good interviewing skills (for design presentation with different stakeholders), good oral and written communication skills, and good customer service and interpersonal skills; Exposure to Life Insurance, Pre-need, Mutual Funds or Trust systems and/or operationsKnowledge in the following development principlesEfficiency and reusabilityMaintainability and portabilitySecurity and PerformanceKnowledge in the following technical tools and coding languagesMicro front end approaches and toolsWeb component, Angular/React, Bootstrap, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, InvisionJava or NodeJS, jUnit, Bitbucket, Jenkins (CI/CD) development toolsSpring framework, Spring bootJSON. XML, SoapUIDocker / KubernetesKnowledge on upcoming technologiesCloud platform (AWS / Azure)Event driven architecture (Kafka, Event Bridge, SQS)Architectural patterns eg. Light4J, API gatewayJob Category:IT - Application DevelopmentPosting End Date:29/11/2025

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