Senior Systems Developer

Company: CGL
Department: IT
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid
Language: This role operates in English
Additional Information: This role is currently vacant

The Opportunity:

We are a leading Canadian financial services cooperative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.

 

Our Information Technology team aspires to be a leader in applying technology to power business strategies. We connect concepts with solutions to create value and efficiencies for our clients, employees, and communities. Our success is driven by our skilled and diverse team who are passionate about excellence, innovation, and agility.

 

As Sr. Systems Developer, you will contribute to the development and implementation of innovative digital platforms and services that enable data differentiated and hyper-personalized insurance propositions within ecosystem partners' experiences. You will work with an agile, energetic, and ambitious digital platform engineering team to engineer innovation at scale through digital, analytics, automation, and contribute to a wide variety of next-gen integrated propositions.

 

How you will create impact:    

• You will participate in the creation and execution of unique digital platforms and services. These will provide personalized insurance propositions within the experiences of our ecosystem partners


• Plan, document, and determine technologies and options for a working solution of large to extra-large complexit


• Develop frameworks and technical components that are reusable, to facilitate future development efforts


• Working within a scrum team and contributing to all software development activities across the entire life cycle of the product including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance


• Partner with design, product, and backend teams to build end-to-end functionality


• Validate operational feasibility through analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.


• Adhere to the software development lifecycle.


• Document and showcase solutions by creating documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and clear code comments.


• Advocate for and promote best practices to ensure high-quality and consistent outcomes in all projects.

 

How you will succeed:  

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs


• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.


• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages & explore diverse viewpoints.


• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.


• You will support and guide others through changing conditions and encourage the exploration of new opportunities or innovations.


• You thrive on delivering our exceptional client experience through positive and engaging relationships; embracing accountability to achieve effective results.

 

To join our team

• Post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline


• 5 or more years’ experience in Object Oriented Programming language


• P&C Insurance industry experienc


• Experience in integrating multiple systems and developing complex microservice


• High level understanding of how No-code systems work


• Nice have experience working with these systems - Unqork, Okta, Salesforce, Guidewire, SendGrid, Workato, GLIA, MongoDB, SQL Serve


• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, or cloud infrastructure.


• Experience with REST and/or GraphQL

 

What you need to know:

• You will be subject to a Background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

 

What’s in it for you? 

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
  


• Flexible work options and paid time off to support your personal and family needs.
  


• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
  


• Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.
  


• In addition to our competitive salary and incentive programs, eligible employees also benefit from a comprehensive total rewards package including group retirement savings plans, pension and benefits (e.g., health and wellness, dental, disability and life coverage), mental health support and an employee assistance program.
  

 

Salary information ​

Expected salary range $72,847 to $121,411 

Salary placement ​

The salary amount for the successful candidate is determined by Co-operators in its discretion and will vary depending on several criteria including but not limited to: local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualification, experience and education.

Incentive/Variable pay ​

Employees may also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn additional compensation tied to individual and/or business performance, or other business metrics.