Job Opportunities Senior Application Developer
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Job Summary
Job ID:10042
Employment Type: Existing Role
Work Environment: We offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote may work from any of the following locations: Winnipeg MB; Wawanesa MB; Vancouver BC; Calgary AB; Edmonton AB; Lethbridge AB; Toronto (North York) ON; Kitchener ON; Ottawa ON; Moncton NB; Dartmouth; NS.
Working Business Language: English
Salary: At Wawanesa salary is only one component of a holistic comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our addition to salary full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time personal days premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors including but not limited to: your work location local labour market conditions external market salary data internal pay equity and the knowledge skills experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $80000 - $ with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company
Founded in 1896 The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company is one of Canadas largest mutual insurers 100% owned by its members with more than $4.1 billion in annual revenue and $12.5 billion in assets. Headquartered in Winnipeg Wawanesa is the parent company of Wawanesa Life which provides life insurance solutions throughout Canada and Western Financial Group a leading national distributor of personal and business March of 2026 Wawanesa entered into an agreement to acquire Everest Insurance Company of Canada to strengthen its commercial insurance capabilities and advance its long-term growth strategy.
Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.8 million members and we are home to more than 3000 employees across Canada. The company actively gives back to organizations that strengthen communities donating more than $4 million annually to charitable organizations including more than $2 million each year in support of people on the front lines of climate change. Learn more at .
We are currently looking for dedicated driven and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Working under minimal supervision this job contributes to Wawanesa success by maintaining supporting and enhancing business systems and applications with a strong emphasis on contact center telephony and cloud based solutions. The role plays a critical part in ensuring platform stability operational resilience and continuous improvement while supporting ongoing modernization automation and AI enabled capabilities across multiple lines of business.
Job Responsibilities
- Design develop and test software.
- Prepare technical specifications from requirements.
- Ensure successful completion of developer assignments by estimating and tracking progress of assigned work.
- Maintain the operation of business systems and applications.
- Diagnose troubleshoot and resolve application incidents.
- Participate in planning activities.
- Create and update relevant documentation.
- Improve upon and ensure the adherence to the established practices processes and guidelines.
- Keep current with relevant technologies.
- Mentor other Application Developers.
- Support on call operational rotations and contribute to timely service restoration.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Completion of Post-secondary degree or diploma in software development or equivalent experience.
- Two to Six years software development experience using modern programming languages.
- Genesys Cloud platform experience including system administration and call flow development.
- AWS development experience including cloud native or serverless components.
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
- Experience supporting enterprise grade highly available platforms in production.
- Source control and automation tooling experience (e.g. Git based workflows AI assisted development tools).
- Detail oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills to recognize and identify issues and take proper action to resolve them.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with style fitting for the audience and message.
- Strong planning and organizing skills with the ability to develop and implement plans by prioritizing and multi-tasking.
- Good leadership skills with the ability to facilitate high team morale by encouraging and coaching team members.
- Effective decision making skills with the ability to direct team members to achieve goals through clear instruction.
- Experience using software development tools such as JIRA Confluence Source Code Management is considered an asset.
- Certifications in Genesys Cloud MS Teams Voice and AWS are considered an asset.
- Telco domain knowledge is considered an asset.
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Diversity Equity Inclusion& Belonging
At Wawanesa we are committed to Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people this is supported by having a representative workforce.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates including racialized persons women Indigenous Peoples persons with disabilities members of the 2SLGBTQIA community gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.
We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process please reach out in confidence to .
All Wawanesa job applicants are subject to Wawanesas .
Please note that the recruitment process for this position may involve the use of AI tools to screen assess or select applicants. All final decisions are taken or reviewed by human recruiters and human hiring leaders in compliance with all applicable legislation.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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