CMS Technical Lead migrating credit union public websites from Central1 Forge/OpenText to target CMS platforms. Leading architecture, integrations, security, content migration, and launch stabilization.
About the role
- Engineering Lead for Sun Life's innovative in-house accelerator, building and scaling digital products in a startup-style environment. Overseeing hands-on technical execution and mentoring a growing 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)
- 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.
- Understand which enterprise guardrails matter now vs. later, and navigate governance without slowing experimentation.
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
- Great Place to Work® Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canada – 2025, 2024 and 2023
- Great Place to Work® Certified for Best Workplaces in Canada - 2025
- Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work® certification from Excellence Canada.
- Top Work Places® for Remote Work – Monster Canada - 2024
- 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.
Job title
Job type
Experience level
Salary
Degree requirement
Tech skills
Location requirements
Report this job
Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.
Junior Software Engineer developing LookDev, Lighting, and rendering tools for Image Engine, a Vancouver VFX studio. Optimizing Arnold, Gaffer, GPU, and production workflows.
GTM Engineer building AI agents, Salesforce automation, and pipeline intelligence for ButterflyMX’s smartphone door - access platform. Improving sales productivity, data integrity, and revenue velocity.
Senior Software Engineer building scalable AWS, Big Data, and ML infrastructure for Genesys’ AI - powered customer - experience platform. Leading distributed systems projects from architecture through production.
Software Developer building full - stack web applications for Intelex’s global EHSQ software platform. Delivering agile features across React, Node.js, Azure, AWS, .NET, and SQL stacks.
Senior backend developer building AI - agent systems for Knak, an enterprise email and landing - page marketing automation platform. Designing APIs and microservices with PHP, Python, Node.js, MySQL, and AWS while mentoring engineers.
Full - stack engineer building scalable PHP/Laravel and Vue.js systems for Felix’s digital healthcare platform. Improving reliability, developing AI workflows, and delivering patient - care experiences across Canada.
Vehicle trim engineer leading finishing - component development and validation for Expleo, a global engineering, production - support, MRO, quality, and consulting organization. Guiding design, supplier, manufacturing, and production teams in Sainte - Claire’s hybrid aerospace projects.
Senior software engineer building scientific computing and ML systems for KoBold Metals, which uses AI and novel sensors for mineral exploration. Developing scalable pipelines and tooling across scientific, geophysical, and hardware data.
Software Developer II building and testing software for JD Power, a provider of automotive data, analytics, and industry intelligence. Collaborating with stakeholders and platform teams across the software development lifecycle.