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AVP, Enterprise Architect, IT Foundation Platforms

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About the role

  • AVP of Enterprise Architect role in IT Foundation Platforms at Sun Life Financial. Leading technology architecture and strategy to drive innovation and performance.

Responsibilities

  • You will be a champion of change and help accelerate the organization’s digital journey while carefully balancing the need to ensure stability, resiliency, and performance of enterprise systems.
  • You will work closely with both the Business Group and Global Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze enterprise business context and change requirements to define the future-state technology architecture.
  • This includes defining requirements, principles, models, and standards that guide enterprise technology decisions.
  • The role is accountable for influencing, guiding, and directing outcomes through strong partnerships across IT and the business.
  • In addition, this role will be responsible for the following:
  • Lead a team of technical architects supporting Enterprise Infrastructure and Core IT strategy toward a clear and aligned vision.
  • Create a clear vision and associated roadmaps for infrastructure, cloud, and platform technologies, and align both teams and executives to that vision.
  • Lead analysis of the current technology environment to identify critical gaps and deficiencies and recommend improvements informed by industry trends and best practices.
  • Partner with solution, data, API, and application architects to align infrastructure and platform strategies with business-driven solution architecture.
  • Define high-level migration and modernization plans to address gaps between current and future state, recognizing the rapid pace of change across cloud platforms, DevOps tooling, and Agile delivery ecosystems.
  • Drive innovation by leveraging new technologies and architectural approaches to modernize, extend, and evolve the existing technology environment.
  • Act as an internal and external advocate and thought leader for Cloud, Network, infrastructure, and platform enablement portfolios.
  • Lead the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware, software, and platform standards, including assessing organizational and operating-model impacts.
  • Develop and maintain a strategic technology roadmap that integrates business strategy, technology trends, and an understanding of the financial services industry.
  • Lead architectural governance through internal review forums and stage-gating committees to ensure alignment with enterprise technology roadmaps.
  • Identify solution options for major initiatives and partner closely with Infrastructure and Platform leaders to select optimal approaches.
  • Unify business and IT strategies through enterprise architecture development and service delivery, leading the communication and adoption of architecture across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, IT Management, or a related field
  • Minimum 15 years of IT infrastructure and technology leadership experience
  • Background in enterprise architecture, infrastructure operations, cloud platforms, or application delivery
  • Strong understanding of enterprise technology risk, decision-making, and trade-offs
  • Proven ability to operate in high-pressure, high-visibility environments
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure systems, cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), networking, virtualization, disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure monitoring
  • Strong collaboration skills and a track record of trusted partnerships with business leaders
  • High personal integrity, excellent interpersonal skills, and executive-level communication capability
  • Experience with vendor management and contract negotiations.
  • Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only as the position includes managing both French and English-speaking staff (Quebec and outside Quebec) and providing daily support to the team.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture.
  • 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.

Job title

It Support

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$145,000 - CA$235,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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