
Senior Technical Lead
Canada Life
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Toronto • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$102,000 - CA$152,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide day‑to‑day technical leadership to developers across actuarial and financial reporting applications.
- Support code reviews, design discussions, and technical troubleshooting.
- Promote good engineering practices including performance tuning, testing, and secure development.
- Support enhancement and maintenance of custom actuarial and reporting systems used for valuation, capital calculation, data aggregation, and analytics.
- Troubleshoot production issues, support stability, and ensure data integrity.
- Collaborate with platform teams on deployments, environment management, and operational processes.
- Participate in modernization initiatives such as cloud integrations, re‑platforming, and automation improvements.
- Work with architects to review designs and help implement target-state patterns.
- Help introduce CI/CD improvements, DevOps tooling, and engineering best practices.
- Coordinate with actuarial and finance stakeholders to understand functional needs and translate them into actionable technical work.
- Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, and estimation.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation, support materials, and operational runbooks.
- Ensure solutions comply with audit, security, and governance standards.
- Contribute to functional, integration, and regression testing strategies.
- Support automated test frameworks where applicable.
- Assist with defect resolution and post‑release validation.
Requirements
- 6 - 8 years of experience in application development, engineering, or technical delivery.
- 1 - 3 years of informal team leadership experience (e.g., mentoring developers, coordinating offshore teams, or acting as a technical lead).
- Hands‑on experience with enterprise application development stacks, using one or more of the following: JavaScript/Node.js or comparable backend frameworks .NET (C#) or similar object‑oriented languages SQL‑based databases (e.g., SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle) Enterprise data or analytics platforms (e.g., SAP HANA, Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent technologies).
- Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, secure development, and modern engineering practices.
- Strong communication and ability to collaborate with both technical and business partners.
- Experience with actuarial, financial reporting, or regulatory systems.
- Familiarity with Azure or SAP Business Technology Platform.
- Experience working in environments subject to SOX, ICOFR, or similar audit controls.
- Exposure to cloud migration or application modernization projects.
Benefits
- Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
- Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being.
- In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.
- Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program and additional investment options.
- Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts and more!
- We provide a workplace where employees feel connected and supported through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs, social clubs and events.
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaScriptNode.js.NETC#SQLSQL ServerPostgresOracleSAP HANASnowflake
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingteam coordinationstakeholder engagementdocumentationtesting strategiesdefect resolution