Pega Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Our Pega Senior Software Engineer will have overall responsibility for the design development technical delivery and overall quality of Pega solutions. They will contribute to agile team goals by collaborating with other functions in the team as well as developing specifications code and documents in order to ensure successful implementation and maintenance of solutions.

What will you do

• Perform and coordinate complex application programming activities

• Contribute to agile team goals by collaborating with other functions in the team actively participating in Scrum ceremonies

• Develop specifications code and documents in order to ensure successful implementation and maintenance of solutions

• Participate in scope definition workshops and owns delivery of the completed work.

• Share complexities as an input into costs for a project and helps estimate work effort.

• Collaborate with architects designers/developers business system analysts and testing specialists to deliver high quality solutions

• Produce both high-level and detailed-level designs and implement Pega solutions based on business requirements and defined architectures

• Contribute to defining timelines and project plans; analyze and estimate feasibility cost time and scope

• Ensure information security standards and requirements are incorporated into all solutions

• Contribute to the ongoing support stability and performance of application systems in production including problem analysis resolution and escalation and reporting as necessary.

• Coordinate with both onshore and offshore teams to ensure coding testing debugging and implementation activities are completed as required

• Analyze define and document requirements for data workflow logical processes interface design internal and external checks controls and outputs

What do you need to succeed

• 7 years hands-on experience designing and delivering complex Pega case management projects

• Demonstrated experience in solution design for Pega based solutions encompassing internal facing and external facing applications

• Advanced knowledge of BPM concepts techniques tools and delivery approaches

• Minimum 3 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience

• Knowledge of the PRPC Architecture as well as PRPC design & implementation features.

• Strong data modeling experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and can explain concepts to both business and IT stakeholders

• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall environments

Whats in it for you:

• Were honoured to be recognized as a 2026 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work Canada.
• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work for prioritizing employee well-being fostering a positive work culture and achieving excellence in mental health.
• 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.
• As a hybrid organization you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work at home or in the office

Special Notes:

• Occasional weekend / after-hours work may be required to support project implementations system upgrades and support for production environments

• IT supports internal business clients in Waterloo Toronto and Montreal. Occasional travel between these locations may be required.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other addition to Base Pay eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing screening interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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