About the Company - Agilus client is a leader in the financial and insurance industry and Agilus is helping them add to their team!

About the Role - We're in the need of an eager, self-motivated lead who is ready to use their education as a foundation to grow their skills along with mentoring junior team members. This role sits at the forefront of innovation at our client and is focused in delivering APIs to market in a way no other insurer in Canada is doing it. You will be a developer and a key member of the team defining the next generation of delivery for the insurance industry. The position can be located Downtown Toronto, North York, or Waterloo, depending on what is suitable for you.

Responsibilities -

• Lead the design, development, deployment and rollout of enhancements on the API Platform, both in the cloud and on premise.
• Participate in the design of delivery solutions, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Design and implement automation features to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Responsible for consultation around API standards and best practices with business delivery teams, key among them best practices around REST API's.
• Leverage the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies platform development including a gateway/service-mesh, runtimes, security, logging, exception handling.
• Utilizing CI/CD Pipeline for API platform enhancements.
• Proactively identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions to resolve the same.
• Participate in designing, running and interpreting performance and load-testing processes and implementing required optimizations.
• Mentor and coach team members to bring them up to speed on build and deployment best practices.
• Ensure projects are following best practices around continuous integration and delivery.
• Work closely with the business and technology partners to ensure effective implementation of new technologies that support API Governance and standardization across Sun life.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the CDC solution, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides and troubleshooting steps.
• Continuously identify and implement enhancements to improve the scalability and performance of the CDC solution.

Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related area.

Required Skills - 8+ years experience with programming in Java is required. Work experience in DevOps, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud. Understanding of APIs, Event Driven Solutions, DevOps, containers, Kubernetes and cloud. Self starter with tenacious inquisitiveness and a desire to learn who will proactively find and explore solutions and provide recommendations. Knowledge of REST API design standards, good working knowledge of API design specifications like Open API.