Leading Sun Life’s enterprise data architecture strategy, governance, and team. Enabling data platforms, analytics, and AI foundations across a global financial services organization.
Responsibilities
Lead the overall Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy and Roadmap
Develop and maintain multi-year enterprise data architecture strategy aligned with business priorities, modernization, cloud adoption, and transformation goals
Govern enterprise data standards, patterns, reference architectures, metadata, lineage, semantic models, and data product standards
Lead the Data Architecture team and embed Solutions Architects in key initiatives
Support scalable enterprise data architectures and information models for analytics, reporting, business intelligence, machine learning, and AI
Collaborate with regional Chief Data Officers, Data Delivery, Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, platform, security, infrastructure, and business teams
Align enterprise architecture strategy with data platform modernization and business transformation investments
Lead semantic architecture, metadata management, and knowledge discovery capabilities
Assess cloud and on-premise deployment decisions based on latency, scalability, security, regulatory, and consumption requirements
Monitor technology, regulatory, privacy, compliance, retention, audit, and governance developments
Keep senior technology and data leadership informed of trends, opportunities, risks, and best practices
Lead, coach, mentor, and develop Directors, Architects, and Senior Consultants across geographies
Drive adoption of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and best practices across global technology organizations
Requirements
Minimum 10 years of experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Management, or related disciplines
Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, information management, analytics platforms, and cloud-native data ecosystems
Experience defining and implementing enterprise-scale data strategies supporting business transformation
Ability to manage through influence in a complex global environment
Strong consulting, communication, organizational, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
Strong experience with data warehousing, data lakes/lakehouses, data products, metadata management, master/reference data management, data lineage, data governance, Kafka, relational and NoSQL databases, graph and semantic technologies, and real-time data platforms
Experience supporting AI and machine learning initiatives through scalable data architecture and governance
Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale cloud-native data solutions on AWS
Strong knowledge of AWS S3, Redshift, Glue, Athena, SageMaker, Lake Formation, and CloudFormation
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related discipline
Minimum 10 years of architecture leadership experience focused on Enterprise Data Architecture strategy and implementation
Experience leading and managing Solution Architects in a matrixed organization
Bilingualism (French and English, oral and written) required for Quebec positions
Benefits
Flexible hybrid work model
Pension, stock and savings programs
Work and professional development opportunities
Friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
Career paths with networking potential
Competitive salary and bonus structure
Office and virtual work flexibility
Accommodation support for persons with disabilities
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