Senior AI Engineer

Sun Life • Toronto, ON

8d • CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Bring your passion for digital or data analytics to Sun Life Financial and work on exciting initiatives that answer the challenge: "How can we do that better?". Working with a dedicated team of energetic, forward-thinking innovators, you’ll stretch your imagination and sharpen your skills on leading-edge projects that are keeping Sun Life Financial ahead of the curve. This is a career with a company that encourages learning and personal growth, aiming to be "one of the best".

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on expertise with Python, AWS Lambda, Java and APIs.
• Experience with developing AI bots/agents.
• Strong expertise in AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in API development and management.
• Familiarity with chatbot development concepts, RAG techniques and vector databases.
• Experience with DevOps culture, tools, and best practices.
• Experience with deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Familiarity with GenAI models and deployment considerations.
• Proven leadership skills, with the ability to guide agile teams across multiple locations.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills with a keen eye for detail and the ability to assess alternatives, risks, and benefits.
• Commitment to fostering a collaborative, transparent, and trust-based team culture.
• Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring junior engineers in an Agile team setting.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Enterprise Architect to design and implement solutions that align with the platform capabilities roadmap.
• Research and pilot the latest GenAI technologies and practices.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, motivating change and fostering innovation within the team.
• Design, deploy, and manage API infrastructure on AWS platforms.
• Create and maintain technical design artifacts that describe application functionality, solution designs, data models, interfaces, and integrations.
• Use and enhance DevOps practices and tools to enforce software guardrails, increase automation, and help engineers build code faster, at a lower cost, and lower risk.
• Own deployment processes and establish best practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Handle model components versioning across dev and prod environments.
• Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Stay current with industry advancements in cloud technologies, AWS services, and AI/ML.
• Provide post-production support for deployed applications, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial.
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• Recognition by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior