Director of Technology

Director, Enterprise Architecture - Digital & Omnichannel page is loaded Director, Enterprise Architecture - Digital & Omnichannel
Apply locations Waterloo, Ontario Toronto, Ontario time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR00094491 You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
About Enterprise Architecture
The Enterprise Architecture team provides the technology and services our business partners need to continue to innovate for our clients, advisors and partners in order to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Through innovation and collaboration, we are striving to find new and better ways to bring value to Sun Life globally.
We are on an exciting path to transform Sun Life Canada’s Client, Sponsor and Advisor journeys, delivering personalized experiences, digitized processes, and consistent capabilities across each business unit. We are also growing our Sun Life Health and Wealth businesses by offering clients greater services through an expanded digital ecosystem and orchestrated unified commerce.
You will demonstrate a strategic and technology savvy mindset in understanding the Sun Life customer Digital & Omni-Channel journeys. You will work with business partners to deliver Client Journey capabilities onto modern digital and strategic platforms. Reporting to the AVP, Enterprise Architecture - Digital Journeys & Omnichannel, this role will closely partner with the Client Experience Office (CXO), Digital platform teams, Infrastructure teams and other Sun Life business units to create the client journeys enterprise technology solutions and integration architecture for an orchestrated client lifecycle across product lines and channels:
Responsible to develop and publish architectural blueprints for client journey and experience products for both web and mobile . This includes defining requirements, principles, capability assessments, gap analysis, feasibilities, risk assessments, component specifications, and other models to guide technology decisions.
Accountable to ensure overall architecture integrity of solutions while bringing right enablers for business capabilities by mitigating risks, and where applicable deliver building blocks through MVPs (minimal viable products).
Build consensus among technology and business stakeholders to ensure viability and alignments of north star architecture. This also includes accountability to get approvals of architecture through Architecture Governances Forums.
Collaborate with Product Owners & Hubs to align the roadmaps with other technology and platform strategies. 
Develop proof of concepts that validate the solutions, and present results to leaderships and executive audiences.
Coach product teams to deliver within timelines, create modular and scalable solutions that addresses future architectural changes and design. Guide them on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, automated deployment.
Provide architecture support for journeys across various lines of businesses including Client Experience Office (CXO), Global Retirement & Investments, Group Benefits, and Retail.
Shape technical strategy for client journey products (e.g., buy decisions, modernization approach, technical road-mapping)
Provide direct day to day tactical coaching, direction and guidance to technical leaders within the client journey teams.
Evaluate and identify appropriate technology stacks, platforms and vendors, including web application frameworks and cloud providers for solution development.
Support the usage of Agile methodologies and DevOps frameworks for client journey delivery.
Provide guidance and insight to establish governance processes, direction and control to ensure objectives are achieved and risks are managed appropriately for the evolution of client journeys.
Knowledge of the Insurance and/or Financial Services landscape in Canada, or other similar industries where the external customer experience journey is of high quality (eg. 15+ years of experience across application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), Open API specification and Swagger, web & mobile applications, modern Javascript (React or similar), micro-frontends, UI/UX design systems, Cloud / SaaS application integration and middleware to enable the needs of client journeys.
~ Specialized Architecture Road Mapping skills.The creation of frameworks, patterns and models in both web and mobile environments.
~ Experience with SPA (Single Page Application) architecture would be a strong asset.
~ Architecture certifications are definite assets (e.g., Hands on experience with any of Enterprise architecture tools (e.g. Operational knowledge of AWS cloud technology frameworks including VPC’s, Lambda, EC2, S3, Glacier, Redshift, Sagemaker etc is an asset. Successful completion of a Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, IT Management or related field.

Great Place to Work Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canada – 2024
Great Place to Work Certified in Canada for Most Trusted Executive Team - 2023
Flexible hybrid work model. #Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience.
Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
Director, Enterprise Data Architecture
locations 4 Locations time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday Director, Global Digital Channels
locations 2 Locations time type Full time posted on Posted 9 Days Ago At Sun Life, you can be your most brilliant self. Our supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment is one where you – and your career – can thrive. Whatever your aspirations, collaborative leaders and colleagues are ready to help you learn, grow, and succeed.
Our purpose is to help Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. As part of Sun Life’s growing team, you have an impact on people in your community and around the world.
Use data to drive bold actions. Be agile and pivot as we test and learn. At Sun Life, we’re driving transformation, sustainability and innovation for our Clients, employees, partners, and communities.