Sun Life
Wealth Management & Financial Advisors · Financial Services

Sun Life tech stack

Sun Life builds mostly with Python, SQL, JavaScript, Java. Its stack also includes AWS, Tableau, PostgreSQL, React.js. AWS is named in 41 of the 113 job postings Sun Life published in the last 12 months (36%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Sun Life, updated Nov 7, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 7, 2026
Technologies in use
210
Postings analysed
113
Open now
56
Modernity
81 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Sun Life use?

Python is named in 27% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by SQL (21%), JavaScript (13%), Java (12%).

Python 31 27% required in 77% · 17 open now · since Sep 2026
SQL 24 21% required in 88% · 13 open now · since Sep 2026
JavaScript 15 13% required in 67% · 8 open now · since Sep 2026
Java 14 12% required in 29% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
PowerShell 6 5% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
TypeScript 6 5% required in 50% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
C# 4 4% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
Node JS 3 3% required in 33% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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Assembly1
C++1
Erlang1
Nim1
PHP1
Ruby1
Rust1
SAS1
Scala1
Apex1
Bash1
Dart1
Kotlin1
Sass1
Swift1

What frameworks and libraries does Sun Life use?

React.js is named in 6% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by LangChain (5%), Spring Boot (4%), LangGraph (4%).

React.js 7 6% required in 57% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
LangChain 6 5% required in 50% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Spring Boot 5 4% required in 80% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
LangGraph 5 4% required in 40% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
FastAPI 4 4% required in 25% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Flask 4 4% required in 25% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
CrewAI 2 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Oct 2026
Spring Framework 2 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Oct 2026
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Spring MVC2
Bootstrap2
Redux2
pgvector2
ASP.NET Core1
Angular1
Chart.js1
D3.js1
Hadoop1
JUnit1
Jest1
LlamaIndex1
Material UI1
Nest.JS1
Next.js1
Nuxt.js1
Playwright1
Pytest1
Radix UI1
Recharts1
Redux Toolkit1
SWR1
Streamlit1
Tailwind CSS1
Vercel AI SDK1
Vue.js1
Zustand1
shadcn/ui1
Flutter1
React Bootstrap1
React Native1
Riverpod1

And 2 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Sun Life use?

PostgreSQL is named in 11% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Snowflake (3%), DynamoDB (3%), Azure Cosmos DB (3%).

PostgreSQL 12 11% required in 50% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Snowflake 3 3% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
DynamoDB 3 3% required in 67% · since Sep 2026
Azure Cosmos DB 3 3% optional · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
Amazon Aurora 2 2% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
OpenSearch 2 2% optional · since Sep 2026
Amazon Redshift 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
Db2 1 1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
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MS SQL1
Oracle1
Redis1
Salesforce Data Cloud1

What cloud and platforms does Sun Life use?

AWS is named in 36% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Tableau (15%), Kubernetes (13%), Azure (11%).

AWS 41 36% required in 80% · 23 open now · since Sep 2026
Tableau 17 15% required in 71% · 10 open now · since Sep 2026
Kubernetes 15 13% required in 67% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Azure 12 11% required in 92% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
Amazon SageMaker 12 11% required in 33% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
AWS Lambda 11 10% required in 64% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
Power BI 11 10% required in 55% · 8 open now · since Sep 2026
Windows 10 9% required in 90% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
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AWS Bedrock10
Spark9
AWS Step Functions8
Linux7
Splunk6
Amazon S36
Apache Kafka5
Amazon EKS5
Bitbucket4
SIEM4
Active Directory3
LDAP3
OpenShift3
Okta3
Unix3
VMWare3
API Gateway2
Amazon ECS2
Amazon EventBridge2
Crowdstrike2
CyberArk2
Figma2
GCP2
Microsoft Entra ID2
Amazon EC22
Anthropic2
AWS Bedrock AgentCore2
Akamai1
AppDynamics1
Braze1
Burp Suite1
DigitalOcean1

And 11 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Sun Life use?

Microsoft Excel is named in 23% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Rest API (13%), Docker (11%), Copilot (10%).

Microsoft Excel 26 23% required in 73% · 11 open now · since Sep 2026
Rest API 15 13% required in 80% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
Docker 12 11% required in 67% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Copilot 11 10% required in 55% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
Ansible 10 9% required in 90% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
Git 8 7% required in 88% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
pySpark 7 6% required in 71% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
Terraform 6 5% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
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Jenkins6
AWS Glue6
Maven5
Gradle4
Informatica3
AWS CDK2
CloudFormation2
Model Context Protocol2
Adobe After Effects1
Adobe Photoshop1
AgentOps1
Apache Tomcat1
Claude Code1
Cline1
Cobalt Strike1
Cursor1
HashiCorp Vault1
Lovable1
Nmap1
SQLmap1
SSIS1
Swagger1
Talend1
WebSockets1
Cortex1
Flyway1
Prometheus1
Vite1

What AI and ML technologies does Sun Life use?

LLM is named in 11% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Claude (1%), Qwen (1%).

LLM 12 11% required in 67% · 8 open now · since Sep 2026
Claude 1 1% optional · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Qwen 1 1% optional · 1 open now · since Sep 2026

Which engineering practices does Sun Life ask for?

CI/CD is named in 12% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by AI Agents (12%), Machine Learning (12%), ETL/ELT (10%).

CI/CD 14 12% required in 79% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
AI Agents 13 12% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
Machine Learning 13 12% required in 85% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
ETL/ELT 11 10% required in 64% · 8 open now · since Sep 2026
Incident Management 9 8% required in 89% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
RAG 8 7% required in 88% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Function Calling 6 5% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Prompt Engineering 6 5% required in 67% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
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LLM Guardrails5
Platform Engineering5
SOAP5
IAM4
Fine-tuning3
Configuration Management2
DNS2
Embeddings2
PKI2
Red Teaming2
TCP/IP2
AIOps2
Agentic Workflows2
CAPA2
State Management2
A/B Testing1
Anomaly Detection1
CSS Modules1
Context Engineering1
DHCP1
Dimensional Modeling1
FinOps1
GRPO1
Hallucination1
LLMOps1
Master Data Management1
NIST AI RMF1
SLI/SLO/SLA1
Self-Healing1
Structured Outputs1
Time Series1
Clean Architecture1

And 3 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Sun Life team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Analytics

12 postings
Tableau5
AWS3
SQL3
Ansible2
Python2
Terraform2

Leadership

10 postings
Python3
SQL3
Azure2
LLM2

Data Science

8 postings
SQL7
Python6
AWS5
pySpark4
Informatica3
Spark3

HR

8 postings
AWS3
Microsoft Excel3
Power BI2

Security

7 postings
AWS5
Azure3
Crowdstrike2
Splunk2
Windows2

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How is the Sun Life stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
Red TeamingOct 2026
InformaticaOct 2026
Microsoft Entra IDOct 2026
SnowflakeOct 2026
Spring FrameworkOct 2026
AIOpsOct 2026
CAPAOct 2026
Platform EngineeringOct 2026

How modern is the Sun Life stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 81/100

Sun Life scores 81 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 3; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Sun Life stack in its industry?

Share of the 2,561 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

AWS30%
Python43%
SQL46%
Tableau17%
JavaScript32%
Kubernetes24%
Java21%
Amazon SageMaker5%
Azure32%
LLM21%

What sets Sun Life apart

AWS Step Functions3%
Flask4%
Azure Cosmos DB2%
LDAP4%

Questions about the Sun Life tech stack

What programming languages does Sun Life use?

The languages named in Sun Life job postings are Python (27%), SQL (21%), JavaScript (13%), Java (12%), PowerShell (5%), as a share of the 113 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Sun Life use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 7 of 113 job postings (6%) and required in 4 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Sun Life use?

The cloud and platforms named in Sun Life job postings are AWS (41), Tableau (17), Kubernetes (15) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Analytics job at Sun Life?

Analytics postings at Sun Life most often require Tableau (5), AWS (3), SQL (3), Ansible (2), out of 12 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Sun Life tech stack changing?

Yes. Red Teaming, Informatica, Microsoft Entra ID, Snowflake first appeared in Sun Life job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Sun Life tech stack?

Sun Life scores 81 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 3; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Sun Life tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Sun Life publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 113 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 7, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Sun Life tech stack: 210 technologies from 113 job postings", as of Nov 7, 2026. https://alion.io/company/sun-life/technologies

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