Senior Systems Developer

Company: CGL
Department: IT
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid
Language: This role operates in English.
Additional Information: This/these role(s) is/are currently vacant.

The Opportunity:

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative 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.

The Emerging Business Model (EBM) Tech team exists to deliver contextually relevant financial security that delight customers and partners in their moment of need. We design, build, and deliver digital first platform and services that enable data differentiated and hyper-personalized insurance propositions within ecosystem partners' experiences. When you join EBM Tech, you'll instantly become a key member of an agile, energetic, and ambitious digital platform engineering team. If you like the idea of engineering innovation at scale through digital, analytics, automation and contributing to a wide variety of next-gen integrated propositions, we think you'll love working at EBM Tech

As the Senior Systems Developer you will be a driving member of an integral team responsible for developing system-based solutions by formulating programs, developing and maintaining codes and documenting processes for consistency and continuous improvement.  You will contribute to a range of highly complex and diverse team initiatives and provide training and support to the members of your team.

Technologies you have experience with:

• You have experience working with Github, open-source automation using APIs,
• Proficiency in using project tracking tools (JIRA, confluence) APIs
• You have experience automating the deployment, management of Salesforce sandbox and production test regions of cloud-based solutions.
• Able to support on developing automations within dev-ops initiative to accelerate deployments and reduce lead time
• Experience working with salesforce metadata and metadata deployments
• You have experience working with cloud deployments, especially using AWS
• You have experience supporting fully automated CI / CD solutions.
• Hands-on experience using ServiceNow for change, release, incident and problem management.
• Excellent coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent understanding of Python

How you will create impact:

• Leading the process of developing a cohesive plan to determine technologies and options for a working solution.
• Developing new code and leveraging existing code to implement system features of medium to large complexity.
• Creating an implementation and troubleshooting plan for a single system.
• Own and lead the overall the release deployment of application changes across UAT, PreProd and Production environments
• Coordinate release deployments and scheduling with Engineering, QA, BSAs and POs
• Coordinate environment setup, rollback procedures, and deployment validation activities
• Ensure that deployment activities follow release management processes.
• Conduct release manifest tech reviews
• Monitor deployments and respond to issues or failures during the release window.
• Participate and sometimes conduct Go Checkpoint meetings, and post-release retrospectives.
• Maintain version control and release documentation.
• Able to handle deployment issues raised by engineers/QA/squads

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 and explore diverse points of view.   
• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues. 

To join our team:

• You have five years of experience in Information Technology or a related field.
• You have completed post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• You have solid understanding of and practical experience in software delivery cycle
• Proficiency in English is essential to the main duties in this role, including servicing and communicating primarily with majority non-francophone clients, groups, teams. Drafting complex English documents and preparing daily reports for anglophone leaders. The essential non-French duties are not assignable to adjacent or other team members.

What you need to know:

• You will travel occasionally.  
• Rotational on-call schedule, with shifts during evenings and weekends.    
• Extended work hours, including evenings and weekends, may be required.  
• 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.

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