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.  

Our student and new graduate programs offer a chance to explore Sun Life from the inside. You’ll make a difference in the lives of our customers and communities, while building the skills and experience that allow you to grow in a meaningful and rewarding way.

Job Description:

We're seeking an enthusiastic software engineering co-op student to join our dynamic Data Engineering team. In this role, you'll contribute to providing cutting-edge data and analytics capabilities to our business. Your engineering skills and passion for building data platforms will help us deliver core data and application pipelines, frameworks, and infrastructure that enable our business to provide insights and respond to client needs in real-time.

Preferred skills

• Strong communication skills (both written and oral) and interpersonal abilities
• Familiarity with or eagerness to learn Agile methodologies like Kanban or Scrum

Qualifications

• Pursuing or recent completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology, or a related field
• Experience with AWS services (such as S3, Lambda, Glue) 
• Familiarity with or eagerness to learn:
  • Git, Bitbucket and Python (using Python to write AWS Lambda functions)
  • Docker and container-orchestration tools like Kubernetes
  • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory
  • SQL databases, such as Postgres
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • ML Pipelines, Model Registry in AWS
• Interest in Microservice Architectures

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within an Agile squad to build core data and analytics platforms, applications, and self-service capabilities
• Develop robust data pipelines integrating various data sources to enable analytics in our Cloud environment
• Work closely with data science analytics partners and AWS service partners to deliver effective integration and delivery pipelines for various analytics use-cases, such as recommendation systems
• Operate in a Shift-Left testing environment, prioritizing efficient, tested, and clear code
• Enhance the supportability and transparency of our applications and services by creating comprehensive documentation, monitoring/alert systems, and centralized logging

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted for. The Base Pay which you will be considered for will vary depending on the Campus program you are selected for.

Eligible Sun Life employees for various Campus Graduate programs will also participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance

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].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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