Role Summary:

What will a successful candidate do?

- Lead and participate in the design, development, deployment of Java REST web service APIs and microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.

- Ensure service designs follow approved architecture.

- Learn and incorporate emerging API technologies into our APIs.

- Build event driven services using Kafka

- Use and enhance our Dev Ops tools and processes for CD/CI, these tools include Jenkins, Artifactory, BitBucket, Gradle, Continuous Delivery Director, Ansible

- Mentor and support colleagues in their capabilities

- Identify defects in services, debug and provide effective solutions to resolve the defects.

- When required, support existing APIs built on older technologies e.g., Websphere, DB2, Java UI etc.

Why should a successful candidate leave their present role to join this prospect?

- The project is very interesting as you will be building from the ground up. Go forward technology building out an ecosystem that will affect Sun Life for years to come.

- This enables them to work from scratch and build a brand-new set-up responsible for all the guardrails makes this an exciting opportunity

- They will get the opportunity to understand the business in an in-depth level, digging deep in their business process to understand and leverage technology to guide business decisions

The API Platform:

- Our APIs are

- REST services built from Open API/Swagger specs
- written in Java Spring Boot,

- Deployed to a Kubernetes environment (on prem/AWS) using Docker containers
- secured with oauth2 using Okta

- Build new microservices/domain services that populate and access database technology like MongoDB and Postgres





- Build event driven processes/microservices that consume topics from Kafka

What a successful candidate need to succeed:

- Post secondary Computer Science diploma or degree

- More than 5 years of development skills and progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience

- Strong working experience with Java APIs, REST, SOAP, Spring, JSON, Open API, Swagger, web services and web hosting technologies

- 1+ years experience using DevOps tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, BitBucket, Maven, CDD/Ansible)

- 1+ years experience with Kafka and/or Kafka Streams (with KSQL)

- Customer obsession – customers are at the center of all we do

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to analyze situations/problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized solutions in a timely manner

- Experience with managing and coordinating team activities in a multi-site environment.

- Strong organizational and planning skill

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Assets:

- Experience with Kubernetes, Okta, AWS, MongoDB

- Experience with Group Retirement products and business domains

- Working knowledge of Business Rule Management Systems such as IBM’s ODM

- Experience with WebSphere, DB2, Java UI: Swing, Spring MVC, SonarQube for static code analysis

- Exposure to Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration architectures and technologies

Additional Requirements:

- Periodic weekend / after-hours work may be required to support project implementations and system upgrades

- Occasional travel between SLF locations may be required depending on work assignments

- Possibility of on-call support maybe required

📌 Java Engineer (Kafka/API) (Toronto)
🏢 Tekstaff IT Solutions
📍 Toronto