Director, Technology Resilience – Recovery

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About the role

  • Technology resilience leader challenging recovery capabilities at Sun Life, a global financial security and health company. Advising governance teams on disaster recovery, cloud resilience, and systemic technology risk.

Responsibilities

  • Provide independent challenge of technology resilience across infrastructure, applications, data, cloud/hybrid environments, and critical service dependencies
  • Assess alignment between business impact tolerances, RTO/RPO expectations, disaster recovery design, recovery architecture, and demonstrated recovery capability
  • Identify systemic technology resilience risks, including architecture vulnerabilities, single points of failure, recoverability gaps, and untested dependencies
  • Challenge the design, realism, and completeness of technology recovery testing, including end-to-end, failover/failback, production-like load, and manual recovery testing
  • Validate recoverability evidence, including test results, recovery runbooks, backup/restoration evidence, application dependency mapping, and remediation artifacts
  • Document challenge outcomes and require formal issue capture for capability gaps, unsupported assumptions, or recovery weaknesses
  • Establish and monitor technology resilience KRIs, RAS measures, thresholds, escalation triggers, and trend analysis
  • Prepare insights for senior governance forums on resilience posture, systemic issues, remediation progress, and accountable risk decisions
  • Support regulatory, audit, and management reporting by linking technical recovery evidence to business criticality and operational resilience outcomes
  • Partner with DBTS, Cyber, Enterprise Architecture, Operational Resilience, BCM, Crisis Management, TPRM, and Business Group Risk teams
  • Advise on major technology change, cloud transformation, outsourcing, and architecture decisions affecting resilience or recoverability
  • Provide technical coaching and quality review to managers and SMEs performing domain-specific DR and backup/data resilience challenge

Requirements

  • University degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Typically 10+ years of experience in technology risk, disaster recovery, technology resilience, infrastructure/application recovery, operational resilience, cyber resilience, or related disciplines
  • Professional certifications such as CBCP/MBCI, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, ITIL, PMP, AWS/Azure architecture/resilience, or equivalent are assets
  • Strong technical expertise in application recovery, infrastructure resilience, DR architecture, cloud/hybrid recovery, production-like testing, data resilience, and cyber recovery
  • Strong understanding of operational resilience, BCM/DR lifecycle, OSFI E-21, OSFI B-13, risk appetite, KRIs, issue management, and 2LOD challenge practices
  • Ability to review technical evidence and translate findings into business risk, remediation actions, and governance decisions
  • Excellent stakeholder management, written communication, presentation, and constructive challenge skills

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work from the office and virtually
  • Sabbatical Program offering up to 6 weeks off every five years
  • Care Days for self-care or care of others
  • Sick Days
  • Supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment
  • Opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed
  • Participation in various incentive plans for eligible employees, with payment subject to individual and company performance

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

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

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudPMP

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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