Director leading RPA and intelligent automation architecture at Sun Life, a financial services company. Defining enterprise platforms, governance, roadmaps, and AI - enabled business process automation.
About the role
- Sun Life enterprise architecture director shaping core-platform strategy, roadmaps, governance, and modernization. Integrating cloud, infrastructure, security, application platforms, and technology investments.
Responsibilities
- Define future-state architectures, transition roadmaps, principles, standards, reference architectures, and decision boundaries
- Provide strategic analysis, recommendations, visibility, and executive reporting on architecture decisions, investments, dependencies, risks, and outcomes
- Maintain an integrated view of architecture priorities, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes
- Translate business priorities, executive direction, regulatory obligations, operational risks, and technology constraints into actionable architecture priorities
- Integrate cloud, infrastructure, network, security, identity, platform, API, and application architecture into a coherent enterprise direction
- Facilitate joint architecture planning and decision-making across business, portfolio, and technology boundaries
- Promote reuse of enterprise capabilities, platforms, standards, patterns, and architecture decisions
- Escalate unresolved cross-domain decisions to appropriate architecture or executive authority
- Lead architecture governance and ensure decisions are documented, traceable, implementable, and aligned with security, resilience, operational, financial, and compliance requirements
- Partner with engineering and operational leaders to validate practical, financially responsible, and sustainable architecture direction
- Define and communicate measurable outcomes for technology health, risk reduction, resilience, cost efficiency, simplification, and platform adoption
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Technology Management, or a related discipline
- 10 or more years of progressive architecture experience, including enterprise, portfolio, or cross-domain responsibility
- Demonstrated experience developing enterprise technology strategies, future-state architectures, integrated roadmaps, standards, and transition plans
- Broad knowledge of cloud platforms, networks, operating systems, middleware, identity, security, virtualization, application hosting, APIs, integration, automation, and platform engineering
- Experience with cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, vulnerability remediation, technology currency, lifecycle management, and technical debt reduction
- Experience integrating architecture strategies and resolving dependencies across multiple business and technology domains
- Proven ability to influence senior business and technology leaders through clear analysis, options, trade-offs, and recommendations
- Ability to translate business and enterprise priorities into actionable architecture direction
- Ability to synthesize complex and fragmented information into a coherent enterprise position
- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and influence
- Strong financial and analytical acumen, including investment, cost, risk, and value trade-offs
- Ability to lead through influence, establish decision clarity, and resolve conflicts
- Sound judgment regarding when to standardize, consolidate, modernize, remediate, replace, retire, or accept risk
Benefits
- A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale
- A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family
- 20 vacation days per year
- Share Ownership Program with employer matching contributions
- Hybrid work flexibility from the office and virtually
- Working together, sharing common values, and encouraging growth & achievement
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