Data Architecture Director

3 days ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Sun Life Financial Full time
About Sun Life Financial

Sun Life Financial is a global leader in the life and health insurance industry, committed to helping individuals, families, and communities achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

Job Title: Data Architecture Director - Pega CoECompensation:

The estimated salary for this role is between $120,000 and $200,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.

Job Description:Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Architecture Director to lead our Pega CoE (Center of Excellence) team. As a key member of our Enterprise Data Architecture team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing data architecture strategies that support our business objectives.

Your focus will be on unifying the client journey nationally across business units and being hands-on with GenAI and advanced analytics solutions.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop a data strategy to support Pega Data Operations and design a North Star view.
  • Provide future roadmap of even better utilization of in-house data assets amongst Pega applications.
  • Develop data architecture patterns and define playbooks for data technologies.
  • Define how GenAI will integrate with Pega data flows.
  • Lead technology POCs and pilots in the data and analytics domain in partnership with Data and analytics teams.
  • Coordinate with Data life cycle management program to guide all aspects of their delivery.
  • Apply enterprise data architecture best practices to all solution architecture, design areas, including on-prem, Cloud (AWS), or a combination.
Requirements:
  • 10+ years of prior technology design and build experience related to data service design, building data architecture and leading end-to-end implementations.
  • 2+ years with AWS cloud-based data architecture including data lake technologies like Glue, EMR, Redshift, and Lambda.
  • Hands-on knowledge of data science (R, Python), LLMs, and GenAI is essential.
  • AWS Bedrock certified, or recent hands-on data solutions design experience with an AWS Bedrock PoC or solution implementation will be an asset.
  • Real-Time data streaming technology experience such as Kafka or Kinesis etc.
  • Open-source technology experience such as Kafka, Python, Spark etc.
Benefits:
  • 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.
  • Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data.
  • The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
Diversity and Inclusion:

Sun Life Financial strives to create a flexible work environment where employees are empowered to do their best work. We believe that diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values, and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.



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