Sun Life

Director, Data & AI Engineering

Sun Life

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: TorontoCanada

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Salary

💰 CA$125,000 - CA$195,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our modern data, AI, and engineering enablement ecosystem
  • Drive the evolution of enterprise platforms built on Snowflake, Informatica, and AWS
  • Enable scalable data products, intelligent automation, and trusted insights across the firm
  • Define and communicate a compelling multi-year vision for data, integration, AI engineering, and platform capabilities aligned to firm objectives
  • Own the platform roadmap (prioritization, resourcing/squads, budget, dependency management, and measurable outcomes)
  • Partner with Architecture, Security, Risk, and Business leaders to align priorities, ensure adoption, and drive change management across the organization
  • Provide executive and hands-on technical leadership for scalable data pipelines supporting batch, micro-batch, and streaming workloads
  • Lead modernization of the Informatica IICS/IDMC ecosystem
  • Establish production-grade AI engineering patterns and implement Responsible AI controls and governance
  • Provide leadership for cloud infrastructure and platform operations supporting data and AI services on AWS
  • Champion developer productivity by standardizing CI/CD, environment automation, code quality practices, and reusable templates/accelerators
  • Lead and grow a high-performing organization of managers, architects, and senior engineers across data, platform, and AI domains.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive technology leadership, including leadership of large teams and multi-year transformation programs
  • Deep expertise designing and operating scalable data pipelines, enterprise data lakes, and cloud data warehouse solutions
  • Strong hands-on and leadership experience with Snowflake (architecture, optimization, governance, security, and cost management)
  • Strong expertise with Informatica IICS/IDMC (ETL/ELT, Data Quality, ingestion frameworks, API-based integration)
  • AWS cloud platform experience, including operational excellence, security controls, and reliability engineering practices
  • Understanding of AI engineering patterns (LLM integration, RAG, vector search, evaluation, and MLOps) and Responsible AI principles
  • Proven ability to translate complex technical topics into executive-ready communication and drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
Benefits
  • Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial – including generous vacation and sick time
  • Market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program
  • Partially-paid sabbatical program
  • Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
  • Flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development
  • Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S., “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, “Best Places to Work in Money Management” by Pension & Investments
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturedata engineeringdata pipelinescloud data warehouseETLELTAI engineeringMLOpsCI/CDenvironment automation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder alignmentchange managementstrategic visionteam managementexecutive communicationcollaborationprioritizationbudget management