
Director, Data & AI Engineering
Sun Life
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$125,000 - CA$195,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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