Sun Life
Wealth Management & Financial Advisors · Asset Management & Funds

Sun Life tech stack

Sun Life builds mostly with Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript. Its stack also includes AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, React.js. AWS is named in 68 of the 182 job postings Sun Life published in the last 12 months (37%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Sun Life, updated Nov 11, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 11, 2026
Technologies in use
246
Postings analysed
182
Open now
62
Modernity
79 /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%), Java (12%), JavaScript (10%).

Python 50 27% required in 74% · 19 open now · since Jul 2026
SQL 39 21% required in 85% · 12 open now · since Jul 2026
Java 22 12% required in 32% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
JavaScript 19 10% required in 63% · 9 open now · since Aug 2026
PowerShell 11 6% required in 82% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
TypeScript 7 4% required in 43% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
C# 5 3% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
C++ 3 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
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Node JS3
Assembly2
Nim2
PHP2
Ruby2
Rust2
SAS2
Kotlin2
Swift2
Erlang1
Perl1
Scala1
Apex1
Bash1
Dart1
Groovy1
Sass1

What frameworks and libraries does Sun Life use?

React.js is named in 5% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Spring Boot (4%), LangChain (4%), LangGraph (3%).

React.js 9 5% required in 67% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
Spring Boot 8 4% required in 63% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
LangChain 7 4% required in 43% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
LangGraph 6 3% required in 33% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
FastAPI 5 3% required in 20% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Flask 5 3% required in 20% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Appium 3 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Rest-Assured 3 2% required in 100% · since Jul 2026
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Selenium3
pgvector3
CrewAI2
Hadoop2
JUnit2
Playwright2
Spring Framework2
Spring MVC2
Angular2
Bootstrap2
Redux2
ASP.NET Core1
Chart.js1
Cypress1
D3.js1
JQuery1
Jest1
LlamaIndex1
Material UI1
Mockito1
Nest.JS1
Next.js1
Nuxt.js1
Pytest1
Radix UI1
Recharts1
Redux Toolkit1
SWR1
Streamlit1
SwiftUI1
Tailwind CSS1
Vercel AI SDK1

And 13 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Sun Life use?

PostgreSQL is named in 8% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Snowflake (3%), Azure Cosmos DB (2%), DynamoDB (2%).

PostgreSQL 14 8% required in 43% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Snowflake 6 3% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Azure Cosmos DB 4 2% optional · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
DynamoDB 3 2% required in 67% · since Sep 2026
OpenSearch 3 2% optional · since Sep 2026
Amazon Aurora 2 1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
Db2 2 1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
Amazon Redshift 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
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Apache Iceberg1
MS SQL1
Oracle1
Redis1
Salesforce Data Cloud1

What cloud and platforms does Sun Life use?

AWS is named in 37% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Azure (13%), Tableau (11%), Kubernetes (11%).

AWS 68 37% required in 76% · 25 open now · since Jul 2026
Azure 24 13% required in 75% · 12 open now · since Jul 2026
Tableau 20 11% required in 75% · 10 open now · since Aug 2026
Kubernetes 20 11% required in 65% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Windows 18 10% required in 83% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
AWS Lambda 15 8% required in 67% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
AWS Bedrock 15 8% required in 27% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Amazon SageMaker 15 8% required in 27% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
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Linux12
Power BI12
Spark11
Amazon S310
Bitbucket9
Splunk9
GCP8
AWS Step Functions8
Apache Kafka7
Unix6
Amazon EKS6
SIEM5
Active Directory4
VMWare4
Amazon EC24
AWS Bedrock AgentCore4
OpenShift3
API Gateway3
Figma3
Okta3
Amazon ECS2
Amazon EventBridge2
Burp Suite2
Crowdstrike2
CyberArk2
DigitalOcean2
LDAP2
Microsoft Entra ID2
SAP BusinessObjects2
SonarQube2
Anthropic2
Cortex XSOAR2

And 20 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Sun Life use?

Microsoft Excel is named in 22% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Rest API (10%), Docker (8%), Copilot (8%).

Microsoft Excel 40 22% required in 75% · 14 open now · since Jul 2026
Rest API 18 10% required in 72% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
Docker 14 8% required in 64% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Copilot 14 8% required in 50% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
Ansible 13 7% required in 92% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Jenkins 12 7% required in 75% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Git 11 6% required in 82% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Terraform 10 5% required in 90% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
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pySpark9
AWS Glue8
Informatica6
Maven5
Gradle4
CloudFormation4
AWS CDK2
Cobalt Strike2
Model Context Protocol2
Nmap2
SQLmap2
SSIS2
Claude Code2
Canva2
Adobe After Effects1
Adobe Photoshop1
AgentOps1
Apache Tomcat1
Cline1
Cursor1
DataStage1
HashiCorp Vault1
Lovable1
SoapUI1
Swagger1
Swift Testing1
Talend1
WebSockets1
Cortex1
DaVinci Resolve1
Flyway1
Prometheus1

And 1 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Sun Life use?

LLM is named in 7% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by ChatGPT (1%), Claude (1%), Qwen (1%).

LLM 13 7% required in 62% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
ChatGPT 1 1% optional · since Sep 2026
Claude 1 1% optional · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Qwen 1 1% optional · 1 open now · since Jul 2026

Which engineering practices does Sun Life ask for?

CI/CD is named in 12% of job postings at Sun Life, followed by Machine Learning (10%), AI Agents (9%), ETL/ELT (9%).

CI/CD 21 12% required in 81% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
Machine Learning 18 10% required in 78% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
AI Agents 16 9% required in 94% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
ETL/ELT 16 9% required in 75% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Incident Management 12 7% required in 92% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
RAG 10 5% required in 90% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Prompt Engineering 10 5% required in 60% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Platform Engineering 9 5% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Oct 2026
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SOAP9
Function Calling6
Red Teaming6
LLM Guardrails5
TCP/IP5
IAM5
DNS4
DHCP3
VPN3
Fine-tuning3
State Management3
Anomaly Detection2
BGP2
Configuration Management2
Embeddings2
MPLS2
Master Data Management2
OSPF2
PKI2
AIOps2
Agentic Workflows2
CAPA2
MVVM2
A/B Testing1
CSS Modules1
Context Engineering1
Dimensional Modeling1
FinOps1
Hallucination1
Human-in-the-Loop1
Interpretability1
LLMOps1

And 10 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

19 postings
AWS6
SQL6
Tableau6
Python5
AWS Lambda2
Ansible2

Finance

15 postings
Microsoft Excel8
Tableau3

Leadership

12 postings
Python4
SQL4
Azure2
LLM2
Snowflake2

Backend

12 postings
AWS8
Rest API7
Git5
Ansible4
Docker4
JavaScript4

Data Science

11 postings
SQL10
AWS7
Python6
Informatica5
pySpark4
AWS Glue3

Security

10 postings
AWS5
Azure3
Burp Suite2
Crowdstrike2
Nmap2
SQLmap2

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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
HadoopOct 2026
LDAPOct 2026
Microsoft Entra IDOct 2026
Platform EngineeringOct 2026
CrowdstrikeSep 2026
BGPSep 2026
MPLSSep 2026
OSPFSep 2026
Rising
AWS Lambda0% → 9%
Ansible0% → 8%
Incident Management0% → 7%
Git0% → 7%
Spark0% → 7%
CI/CD6% → 12%
Tableau6% → 12%
Terraform0% → 6%
Falling
FastAPI18% → 1%
Flask18% → 1%
LangChain18% → 2%
Azure24% → 12%
LLM18% → 6%
Docker18% → 7%
PostgreSQL18% → 7%
ETL/ELT18% → 8%

How modern is the Sun Life stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 79/100

Sun Life scores 79 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: 4; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Sun Life stack in its industry?

Share of the 1,754 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

AWS39%
Python56%
SQL59%
Azure43%
Java28%
Kubernetes31%
Tableau23%
JavaScript41%
Windows31%
AWS Bedrock8%

What sets Sun Life apart

AWS Bedrock AgentCore3%
Azure Cosmos DB3%
Appium4%
pgvector3%

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%), Java (12%), JavaScript (10%), PowerShell (6%), as a share of the 182 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Sun Life use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 9 of 182 job postings (5%) and required in 6 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Sun Life use?

The cloud and platforms named in Sun Life job postings are AWS (68), Azure (24), Tableau (20) (postings in brackets).

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

Analytics postings at Sun Life most often require AWS (6), SQL (6), Tableau (6), Python (5), out of 19 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Sun Life tech stack changing?

Yes. Hadoop, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, Platform Engineering first appeared in Sun Life job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Sun Life tech stack?

Sun Life scores 79 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: 4; 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 182 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 11, 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: 246 technologies from 182 job postings", as of Nov 11, 2026. https://alion.io/company/sunlife-ca/technologies

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