Equitable is a Canadian mutual company focused on putting people first and helping Canadians protect today and prepare for tomorrow. The Technology Specialist role involves working collaboratively with a team to design and enhance solutions for the insurance and investments industry using various backend technologies.
Responsibilities
- Be a part of a team of developers to design and enhance a wide range of solutions using a variety of backend technologies
- Recommend and implement system designs based on long-term IT organization strategy
- Work closely with business and systems analysts, and QA to develop alternative solutions to meet business needs
- Analyze production system problems and recommend solutions
- Investigate and solve production problems with minimal guidance
- Research and recommend technologies to the team and management to help keep our tech stack up-to-date
Skills
- Willingness and ability to learn new ways of working and different technologies
- Proficiency in C# .Net (VB.Net acceptable) with at least 1-2 years of relevant experience
- Solid knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and Transact SQL with at least 2 years of relevant experience
- Experience with SOAP and/or RESTful services
- High motivation to be a team player and ability to be a strong individual contributor
- Effective verbal and written communications, with an ability to effectively convey information, concepts, and ideas to others
- Hands on experience using testing frameworks (i.e. NUnit, etc.) is an asset
- Experience with ORMs like Entity Framework is an asset
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related field
- Azure DevOps
- Developing and deploying CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with JSON and XML
- Azure Functions
- Azure SQL
- Unitrax
- ExStream
- Active Batch
- Ingenium
Benefits
- Incentive pay
- Annual salary reviews
- Employer-paid benefits
- Pension matching
- Competitive vacation plus one paid volunteer day each year
- Healthy work-life balance with employee wellness always top of mind, complemented by a “dress for your day” approach
Company Overview
At Equitable, we believe in the power of together. This is how we focus on our clients. It's how we support advisors and give back to our communities. It was founded in 1920, and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://equitable.ca/.