Director, Domain Enterprise Architect – AI

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About the role

  • Director leading Sun Life’s enterprise AI architecture, governance, and investment roadmaps. Aligning financial-services AI initiatives with regulation, business outcomes, and scalable platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the enterprise AI architecture strategy
  • Establish target-state AI domain architecture and multi-year roadmaps
  • Create AI reference models, standards, principles, policies, and guardrails
  • Align AI strategy with enterprise business strategy, technology strategy, and operating model
  • Establish visibility into AI investments across global business units
  • Identify duplication, fragmentation, risk, and technology overlap
  • Drive enterprise-wide reuse and strategic consolidation of AI capabilities
  • Guide investment decisions toward scalable enterprise platforms and services
  • Own enterprise AI standards, approved technologies, architecture patterns, and reference architectures
  • Chair and influence AI architecture governance forums
  • Evolve enterprise controls governing AI deployment, autonomy, human oversight, security, risk, and compliance
  • Oversee exception management and architecture decision processes
  • Develop centralized AI roadmaps supporting business capabilities and strategic priorities
  • Coordinate roadmap activities across business groups and technology organizations
  • Assess emerging technologies and define adoption strategies
  • Advise executives on AI strategy and investment planning
  • Communicate AI opportunities, risks, and architectural direction
  • Facilitate alignment between business leaders and technology organizations
  • Present architecture recommendations to leadership and governance bodies
  • Establish Responsible AI architecture principles
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory expectations, model governance, privacy obligations, and risk frameworks
  • Drive transparency, explainability, accountability, and human oversight standards
  • Partner with Risk, Security, Compliance, Legal, and Data leaders to mature AI governance
  • Build and mentor an AI architecture community
  • Develop AI architecture practices, methodologies, and knowledge-sharing programs
  • Support Solution Architects and Domain Architects in adopting enterprise standards
  • Define measures for AI investment value realization
  • Track enterprise outcomes and adoption trends
  • Evolve roadmaps based on outcomes and feedback

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field
  • 10+ years of architecture leadership experience
  • 5+ years leading enterprise AI, data, analytics, digital transformation, or emerging technology domains
  • Proven experience defining enterprise technology strategies and roadmaps
  • Experience influencing senior executives and large-scale investment decisions
  • Experience within highly regulated industries, preferably insurance, wealth management, banking, or financial services
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide architecture programs and governance functions
  • Deep expertise in Generative AI, Agentic AI, automation, large language models, AI platforms, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI operating models
  • Strong understanding of architecture governance, roadmaps, standards management, risk, security, and business capability planning
  • Exceptional executive communication capability, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Strong planning, prioritization, and governance management skills
  • Ability to connect AI investments to business outcomes, productivity gains, client experience improvements, operational efficiency, and risk reduction
  • Master's degree preferred
  • Advanced architecture certifications preferred
  • AI-specific certifications highly desirable

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale
  • Flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work
  • Time off that allows you to focus on the moments that matter most
  • 20 vacation days per year
  • Share Ownership Program with employer matching contributions
  • A warm, supportive, and inclusive culture
  • Flexible work environment with the choice to work from the office and virtually
  • Supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment
  • Learning, growth, and career development support

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$125,000 - CA$195,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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