Director, Platform Delivery
Job Summary
You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.
At Sun Life were driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring authentic bold inspiring and impactful.
When you join Sun Life youll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients lives.
Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.
Job Description:
- Be accountable for the overall delivery performance capability effectiveness and sustainability of assigned teams.
- Ensure teams consistently translate agreed priorities and technical direction into high-quality delivered outcomes with the appropriate capacity skills leadership and team structures in place.
- Partner with Agile Delivery Leads to strengthen flow planning predictability agile maturity and delivery effectiveness.
- Use delivery evidence team insights and performance trends to identify constraints capability gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Build resilient collaborative and effective teams with clear expectations for roles decision making collaboration accountability and outcomes.
- Lead coach and develop Senior Analysts Analysts and other delivery professionals; provide ongoing coaching candid feedback performance leadership development planning and career guidance.
- Lead workforce planning recruitment onboarding performance and talent development; identify capability or capacity gaps and create practical plans to address them.
- Help individuals and teams adopt new technologies roles ways of working and organizational models while maintaining focus on delivery outcomes.
- Partner across Product Management Agile Delivery Technical Strategy and Enablement and HR Technology Operations to ensure the right people capabilities leadership and team structures are in place to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Significant experience leading technology digital platform or enterprise solution delivery teams.
- Demonstrated success improving delivery performance team effectiveness and business outcomes in a complex organization.
- Experience ensuring teams have the capacity skills structures and leadership needed to meet commitments and adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience working within agile or product-oriented operating models and partnering effectively across Product Technology Delivery and Operations leadership.
- Demonstrated success building healthy high-performing teams and strengthening leadership capability.
- Strong experience leading and developing people providing feedback and supporting meaningful career growth.
- Experience leading workforce planning talent development succession recruitment and organizational capability building.
- Experience leading teams through transformation organizational change and new ways of working.
- Experience using evidence and performance insights to identify delivery constraints and guide improvement.
- Experience with enterprise HR technology or comparable business platforms is an asset.
- Knowledge and capabilities in technology and platform delivery leadership; delivery performance capacity and capability management; agile and product-oriented ways of working; high-performing team leadership; people leadership coaching and performance enablement; workforce talent and succession planning; organizational design and capability building; change leadership and adaptability; stakeholder partnership and influence; systems thinking evidence-based improvement and continuous learning.
- A competitive salary and bonus program based on market scale
- A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.
- Time off that allows you to focus on the moments that matter most. 20 vacation days per year.
- Our Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.
- We are proud to be included in Great Place to Works 2026 list of Canadas Best Workplaces.
- Working together sharing common values and encouraging growth & achievement.
The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other addition to Base Pay eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to .
We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business our Clients and you.
We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing screening interview scheduling.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary Range:
125000/125 000 - 195000/195 000Job Category:
Human ResourcesPosting End Date:
15/09/2026Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Sun Life dental plans promote better oral health & are backed by large dental provider networks. Our flexible plans include PPO plans, prepaid or DHMO, ASO and individual prepaid/DHMO options.