Provide leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design required for the development of Sun Life’s IT foundations architecture.
Create architectural deliverables that guide the evolution of enterprise technology platforms and infrastructure to enable business strategy and outcomes through sound technical decisions.
Champion of change and help accelerate the organization’s digital journey while ensuring stability, resiliency, and performance of enterprise systems.
Work closely with both the Business Group and Global Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze enterprise business context and change requirements to define future-state technology architecture.
Lead a team of technical architects supporting Enterprise Infrastructure and Core IT strategy toward a clear and aligned vision.
Define high-level migration and modernization plans to address gaps between current and future state, recognizing rapid pace of change across cloud platforms, DevOps tooling, and Agile delivery ecosystems.
Drive innovation by leveraging new technologies and architectural approaches to modernize, extend, and evolve the existing technology environment.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, IT Management, or a related field
Minimum 15 years of IT infrastructure and technology leadership experience
Background in enterprise architecture, infrastructure operations, cloud platforms, or application delivery
Strong understanding of enterprise technology risk, decision-making, and trade-offs
Proven ability to operate in high-pressure, high-visibility environments
Extensive experience with infrastructure systems, cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), networking, virtualization, disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure monitoring
Strong collaboration skills and a track record of trusted partnerships with business leaders
High personal integrity, excellent interpersonal skills, and executive-level communication capability
Experience with vendor management and contract negotiations
Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) required for Quebec only.

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
Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

AVP, Enterprise Architect – IT Foundation Platforms

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