At Equitable, we believe work should be a place where you feel supported, inspired, and empowered to grow. In our caring and collaborative environment, your curiosity is encouraged, your passion is recognized, and your contributions truly matter. Together, we create meaningful impact, for our clients, our communities, and each other.

The Opportunity: At Equitable, we believe great things happen when we work together. We’re a Canadian mutual company driven by purpose - putting people first and helping Canadians protect today and prepare for tomorrow. If you’re passionate about making a difference and growing your career in an inclusive and collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you. Our culture is built on care, passion and curiosity. We put people above all else, strive to be our best and welcome new ideas to deliver positive outcomes.

The Senior Technology Specialist role is an exciting opportunity with one of our Individual Insurance agile teams to work directly with key leaders to understand the business needs and help support their strategies with technology solutions. Join our team to develop and implement technologies that support both internal and external clients, while also providing technical and practice leadership to continuously evolve our capabilities and technologies.

This role will partner with a cross-functional agile team to develop, test, launch, and refine solutions to optimize the Individual Insurance new business experience, while helping maintain and enhance shared technology solutions and architecture.

Join one of the region’s top employers and be part of something that truly makes a difference.

Work Arrangements: This is a hybrid role. You will work in our office in Waterloo, ON a minimum of two (2) assigned, consecutive days every other week, plus a fifth (5th) assigned day per month. You are welcome to work from the office more than the minimum requirement, and there may be some roles that are required to work in our office more than the minimum requirement.

What you’ll do:

• You will be responsible for designing, developing and unit testing code, delivering on objectives established by business partners. You will understand and adhere to best practices and guidelines, and work with a delivery team to ensure understanding of objectives, requirements and specifications.
• Coding experience in .NET, C#, (SQL, KQL is a plus)
• Strong experience with tools and development frameworks such as PowerShell, NPM, VSC, GIT, Docker, K8S
• Strong experience & understanding in Infrastructure as code applied to DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud security best practices and well architected framework.
• Demonstrated knowledge of web/mobile design and object-oriented programming practices
• Support the implementation of corporate policies, standards, and procedures that provide effective architecture, governance, and management.
• Perform hands-on configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and/or application software.
• Provide technical leadership for more junior team members, oversee solution implementation to ensure compliance with security, and governance.
• Involve others in planning and executing, and in so doing, gains their buy-in.
• May be required to complete work outside of normal business hours to meet project deadlines and support weekend implementations, may be required to participate in rotating on-call shifts.

What you’ll bring:

• Minimum 5 years experience in IT with multi-domain experience (Insurance domain preferred).
• Post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in the following or related discipline: computer science, computer systems engineering, software engineering.
• Hands on working knowledge of.NET, C#, PWAs, APIs, Azure DevOps/Cloud, SQL, Design Library Systems, Experience with scrum delivery, Testing Automation and Automating Pipelines.
• Experience leading other developers on projects; task and priority setting, working with business partners, etc.

What’s in it for you:

• Career Growth: Regular learning sessions and development opportunities
• Total Rewards: Allowance provided in place of vacation pay and benefits
• Flexibility: Healthy work-life balance with employee wellness always top of mind, complemented by a “dress for your day” approach

At Equitable, we’re committed to fair pay and an inclusive, accessible hiring experience. If you need accommodations or alternative formats at any stage, just reach out to us at careers@equitable.ca. We’re happy to help.

Your base pay will be based on your skills, qualifications, experience and education.

If you’re selected to move forward, our Talent Acquisition team will walk you through all the details of our total rewards program, so you know exactly what’s included.

Reports To: Technology Manager, Core Systems

Department: IT Individual Insurance

Term: Temporary Full-Time, Eight (8) Month Contract

This position is open and we are excited to find the right person to join our team.

As part of the recruitment process, you will need to go through background screening, as per our company policy.

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