AVP, Enterprise Architect, IT Foundation Platforms

Role Overview

• Lead a team of technical architects supporting Enterprise Infrastructure and Core IT strategy toward a clear and aligned vision
• Create architectural deliverables that guide the evolution of enterprise technology platforms and infrastructure to enable business strategy and outcomes through sound technical decisions
• Champion 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 the future-state technology architecture
• Define requirements, principles, models, and standards that guide enterprise technology decisions
• Accountable for influencing, guiding, and directing outcomes through strong partnerships across IT and the business
• Create a clear vision and associated roadmaps for infrastructure, cloud, and platform technologies, and align both teams and executives to that vision
• Lead analysis of the current technology environment to identify critical gaps and deficiencies and recommend improvements informed by industry trends and best practices
• Partner with solution, data, API, and application architects to align infrastructure and platform strategies with business-driven solution architecture
• Define high-level migration and modernization plans to address gaps between current and future state
• Drive innovation by leveraging new technologies and architectural approaches to modernize, extend, and evolve the existing technology environment
• Act as an internal and external advocate and thought leader for Cloud, Network, infrastructure, and platform enablement portfolios

Requirements

• 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 as the position includes managing both French and English-speaking staff (Quebec and outside Quebec) and providing daily support to the team.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

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