Engineering Lead for Sun Life's innovation team, focusing on AI platform and scaling technology. Hands-on leadership role with emphasis on building and mentoring engineering team.
Responsibilities
Write production-quality code daily across backend, APIs, and AI-enabled services.
Make fast, pragmatic architecture decisions that prioritize learning and delivery while keeping future scale in mind.
Design and evolve Sun Life’s agentic AI platform, including orchestration, integration layers, APIs, and guardrails.
Evaluate and experiment with new technologies, AI models, and vendor solutions.
Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop a small, high-caliber engineering team (AI, backend, full-stack).
Lead primarily through contribution and example, not process or hierarchy.
Establish engineering practices, standards, and ways of working that enable speed without sacrificing quality.
Foster a culture of experimentation, ownership, and continuous learning.
Build with security, reliability, and compliance awareness appropriate for a regulated financial institution.
Partner pragmatically with InfoSec, Legal, Compliance, and Data Governance as solutions mature.
Requirements
10+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with recent, demonstrable coding work in a 0 - 1 environment.
Experience acting as a software engineering leader or founder-level engineer on complex digital products or platforms.
Strong fluency in modern cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code).
Proven ability to operate in ambiguity, make trade-offs, and ship imperfect solutions quickly.
Ability to grow from individual contributor to team builder—comfortable hiring, mentoring, and raising the bar for others.
Startup or early-stage product experience is a significant asset.
Nice to have: Experience with AI/ML systems → building with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agentic architectures.
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.
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