Sun Life · 1 week ago
Director, Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Strategy
Ontario, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$125K/yr - $195K/yr
15+ years expSun Life is a company dedicated to making life brighter for clients and communities. They are seeking a strategic individual contributor to lead their Enterprise Data Architecture team, focusing on designing critical data strategies and aligning technologies to support advanced data architectures and AI governance.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
You’ll engage and lead the data strategy engagements with business line executives, and define data architectures for enterprise engagements
Develop enterprise data architecture patterns, define playbooks and technologies
Establish and provide governance on enterprise data architecture and technology standards, so that our enterprise data architecture best supports and enables GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities
Define and create Semantic Layer, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
Create and present tools/tech proposals and evaluations at Enterprise Architecture Governance councils
Analyze structural and enterprise data architecture requirements to best enable new software and applications
Apply and enforce enterprise data architecture best practices to all enterprise solution architecture and design areas, including cloud native AWS, hybrid cloud, and on-prem. This includes areas such as Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization
Collaborate with all regions to provide enterprise data architecture best practice and guidance on various delivery / implementations
You will also roll-up your sleeves and help the project teams with their complex technical issues from the enterprise data architecture point of view
Partner with the Data and Analytics teams to lead technology POCs and pilots in the data and analytics domain
Provide enterprise data architecture leadership and guidance on the design of end-to-end solutions for building data & analytics applications on cloud and on-premise platforms
Mentor other data systems designers (Data Architects), both within your team and within other Digital Business and Technology Services, or other Business units, in order to support solution development and application of best practices
Provide enterprise data architecture guidance to the solutions design team to drive data & analytics strategy across the enterprise
Prior hands-on experience in designing and delivering data and analytics solutions with proven business value
Qualification
Required
Strategic enterprise data architecture engagement skills with executive level stakeholders
3+ years with cloud-based data architecture in a modern AWS environment. While AWS is preferred, we can instead consider modern Azure or GCP cloud-based data architecture experience
Approximately 15+ years of build/design experience related to data service design, building data architecture, with prior experience leading end to end implementations
Defining and creating Semantic Layer, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
Background of working with data governance and its application
Prior experience with MDM (Master Data Management), RDM, Data Modeling techniques, Data architecture patterns
Extremely strong communication, critical thinking, conceptual and analytical skills
Excellent collaboration and leadership skills, a proven ability to adapt to challenges, and a strong interest in coaching and mentoring colleagues
As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide
Preferred
Any additional experience with GraphQL, Random Forest and Tree, and ModelOps would be an asset, but not necessarily required
Experience in ML / AI methodologies and event streaming is an asset
Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Glue, Lambda, Redshift and/or Snowflake, and Informatica IICS, (or similar)
Experience with data analytics and visualization using any modern age tools such as AWS Sagemaker, R Studio, Tableau, or Power BI
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. Sun Life is one of only four companies in Canada to ever receive this certification – 2024
Top Work Places® for Remote Work – Monster Canada - 2024
Great Place to Work® Certified for Best Workplaces in Canada – 2024 and 2022
Great Place to Work® Certified for Best Workplaces for Women in 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.
Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
Company
Sun Life
Sun Life is a leading financial services organization dedicated to helping people achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.05B2024-05-13Post Ipo Debt· $548.79M
2023-07-04Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2000-03-24IPO
Leadership Team
Kevin Strain
President & CEO
Luc Nhon Ly
Chief Executive Officer
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