Job Description:

Corporate IT is looking for AI Engineer with at least 2 years of development experience. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation, implementing cloud capabilities, and building GenAI solutions. The ideal candidate has a passion for cutting-edge technologies and a proven track record of building large-scale, complex software systems.

This role will collaborate with architects, product owners, data engineers, security and governance partners, and business stakeholders to deliver AI-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, intelligent agents, automation workflows, and reusable AI platform capabilities.

What will you do?

• Work closely with the Enterprise Architect to design and implement solutions that align with the platform capabilities roadmap
• Research and pilot the latest GenAI technologies and practices
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, motivating change and fostering innovation within the team
• Create and maintain technical design artifacts that describe application functionality, solution designs, data models, interfaces, and integrations
• Use and enhance our DevOps practices and tools to enforce software guardrails, increase automation, and help engineers build code faster, at a lower cost, and lower risk
• Stay current with industry advancements in cloud technologies, AWS services, and AI/ML
• Provide post-production support for deployed applications, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate effectively in an Agile environment, communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and mentor junior team members.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 1+ years of building and operating solutions on AWS.
• Hands-on expertise with Python, AWS Lambda, and APIs
• Experience with developing AI bots/agents
• Familiarity with chatbot development concepts, RAG techniques and vector databases
• Experience with DevOps culture, tools, and best practices
• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills with a keen eye for detail and the ability to assess alternatives, risks, and benefits
• Commitment to fostering a collaborative, transparent, and trust-based team culture

Nice to have

• Experience with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Agents for Amazon Bedrock, or Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
• Experience with Amazon OpenSearch Service, PostgreSQL with pgvector, or other enterprise vector-search technologies.
• Experience with AWS Glue, data pipelines, PySpark, or analytics workloads.
• A relevant AWS certification.
• Experience with Amazon QuickSight when analytics dashboard development is part of the solution.

What's in it for you

• 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

Unique Requirements:

• This role requires Reliability Status Clearance. In addition to a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check, as part of your application, the Government of Canada will ask if you lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months during the last 5 years, and you must account for all activities during this time. Important: Obtaining Reliability Status Clearance within a reasonable amount of time is a condition required to start employment for this role at Sun Life.
• Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life's policies and practices.

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 factors. In 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.

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.

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

Salary Range:
65,000/65 000 - 105,000/105 000

Job Category:
IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:
29/09/2026