Director, Engineering Lead, In-House Accelerator

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About the role

  • 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.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$110,000 - CA$180,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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