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.
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