Lead Technology Specialist, Digital
Top Benefits
About the role
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 Lead Technology Specialist position offers a compelling opportunity within one of our Group Insurance agile teams. In this role, you will collaborate closely with key leaders to comprehend business needs and support strategic objectives through technological solutions. We invite you to join our team to develop and implement technologies that serve both internal and external clients, while also providing technical and practice leadership to continually enhance our capabilities and technologies.
This position entails partnering with a cross-functional agile team to develop, test, launch, and refine solutions aimed at optimizing the Group Insurance servicing experience. The responsibilities include designing, developing, and unit testing code, while delivering on the objectives set by business partners. The Lead Technology Specialist must adhere to best practices and guidelines, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of objectives, requirements, and specifications in collaboration with the delivery team.
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, delivers 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.
- 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 solutions to solution implementation to ensure compliance with security, and governance.
- Support IT Management in handling escalations within a team of Technology Specialists.
- 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:
- 7+ years of IT experience, including 3+ years in a senior technology role with multi-domain expertise.
- Post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in computer science, computer systems engineering, or software engineering.
- Multiple advanced technical certifications in technologies mentioned in this job description.
- Strong experience and understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code applied to DevOps/DevSecOps, cloud security best practices, and well-architected frameworks.
- At least 7+ years of development experience with React, Angular, .NET, C#, and SQL, including hands-on work with PWAs, APIs, and Azure services (App Services, Durable Functions, Pipelines).
- Hands-on working knowledge of development tools and frameworks such as PowerShell, NPM, Visual Studio Code, Git, ReactJS (including Vite & Create-React-App), and design library systems.
- Minimum 4 years of experience working with Azure infrastructure and services.
- Hands-on experience and proficiency with Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) technologies.
- Experience using testing frameworks for both client and server code (e.g., NUnit, Selenium).
- Demonstrated knowledge of responsive web design (mobile/tablet), object-oriented programming practices, and grid principles.
- Experience with agile practices, scrum delivery, test automation, and Azure Pipelines.
- Experience leading other developers on projects, including task and priority setting, and collaborating with business partners.
- Experience working with Product Owners, stakeholders, and business SMEs to understand business needs and act as a bridge between business and technical teams.
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 include
Reports To: Senior Technology Manager, Digital
Department: Group IT
Term: Temporary Full-Time, Twelve (12) 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.
About Equitable
At Equitable our belief in the power of working together guides how we work with each other. How we help our clients and partners. And how we support the communities where we live and work. Together, with partners and advisors across Canada, we offer Individual Insurance, Group Insurance and Savings and Retirement solutions. For Equitable Life’s terms of use for this site, please visit: https://www.equitable.ca/en/legal.aspx
But we're not your typical financial services company. We have the knowledge, experience and ability to find solutions that work for you. We're friendly, caring and interested in helping. And we're owned by our participating policyholders, not shareholders. So we can focus on your interests and provide you with personalized service, security and wellbeing.
Lead Technology Specialist, Digital
Top Benefits
About the role
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 Lead Technology Specialist position offers a compelling opportunity within one of our Group Insurance agile teams. In this role, you will collaborate closely with key leaders to comprehend business needs and support strategic objectives through technological solutions. We invite you to join our team to develop and implement technologies that serve both internal and external clients, while also providing technical and practice leadership to continually enhance our capabilities and technologies.
This position entails partnering with a cross-functional agile team to develop, test, launch, and refine solutions aimed at optimizing the Group Insurance servicing experience. The responsibilities include designing, developing, and unit testing code, while delivering on the objectives set by business partners. The Lead Technology Specialist must adhere to best practices and guidelines, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of objectives, requirements, and specifications in collaboration with the delivery team.
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, delivers 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.
- 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 solutions to solution implementation to ensure compliance with security, and governance.
- Support IT Management in handling escalations within a team of Technology Specialists.
- 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:
- 7+ years of IT experience, including 3+ years in a senior technology role with multi-domain expertise.
- Post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in computer science, computer systems engineering, or software engineering.
- Multiple advanced technical certifications in technologies mentioned in this job description.
- Strong experience and understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code applied to DevOps/DevSecOps, cloud security best practices, and well-architected frameworks.
- At least 7+ years of development experience with React, Angular, .NET, C#, and SQL, including hands-on work with PWAs, APIs, and Azure services (App Services, Durable Functions, Pipelines).
- Hands-on working knowledge of development tools and frameworks such as PowerShell, NPM, Visual Studio Code, Git, ReactJS (including Vite & Create-React-App), and design library systems.
- Minimum 4 years of experience working with Azure infrastructure and services.
- Hands-on experience and proficiency with Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) technologies.
- Experience using testing frameworks for both client and server code (e.g., NUnit, Selenium).
- Demonstrated knowledge of responsive web design (mobile/tablet), object-oriented programming practices, and grid principles.
- Experience with agile practices, scrum delivery, test automation, and Azure Pipelines.
- Experience leading other developers on projects, including task and priority setting, and collaborating with business partners.
- Experience working with Product Owners, stakeholders, and business SMEs to understand business needs and act as a bridge between business and technical teams.
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 include
Reports To: Senior Technology Manager, Digital
Department: Group IT
Term: Temporary Full-Time, Twelve (12) 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.
About Equitable
At Equitable our belief in the power of working together guides how we work with each other. How we help our clients and partners. And how we support the communities where we live and work. Together, with partners and advisors across Canada, we offer Individual Insurance, Group Insurance and Savings and Retirement solutions. For Equitable Life’s terms of use for this site, please visit: https://www.equitable.ca/en/legal.aspx
But we're not your typical financial services company. We have the knowledge, experience and ability to find solutions that work for you. We're friendly, caring and interested in helping. And we're owned by our participating policyholders, not shareholders. So we can focus on your interests and provide you with personalized service, security and wellbeing.