Senior Technical Recruiter (Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant)

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. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Technical Recruiter to drive full-cycle recruitment across complex high-impact technical roles mid to senior roles. This role is ideal for a deeply technical talent expert who combines strong market insight a powerful talent network and a consultative approach to partnering with the business.

You are energized by the craft of recruiting proactive in talent scouting and continuously evolving your understanding of emerging technologies skills and market trends.

What will you do

Strategic Talent Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders shaping hiring strategies aligned to business priorities

• Provide market intelligence on talent supply compensation and competitive landscape

• Influence role design leveling and hiring decisions with data-driven insights

Technical Talent Delivery

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for mid to senior-level technical roles across engineering data cloud and emerging tech domains

• Translate complex technical requirements into targeted sourcing strategies

• Deliver high-quality diverse talent pipelines with a focus on both speed and quality

Proactive Talent Scouting & Network Building

• Build and leverage a strong active network of top-tier technical talent

• Develop creative sourcing strategies across platforms communities and passive channels

• Continuously map and engage talent pools aligned to future business needs

Market & Trend Expertise

• Stay ahead of emerging technologies skills and talent trends (e.g. AI cloud data cybersecurity)

• Bring forward insights to inform workforce planning and hiring strategy

• Act as a thought partner in shaping long-term talent strategies

What do you need to succeed

• Proven experience recruiting for technical roles at mid to senior roles

• Strong technical acumen with the ability to deeply understand roles across engineering data and digital domains

• Demonstrated success in proactive sourcing and talent scouting not just inbound recruiting

• A well-established network within technical talent communities

• Experience operating in a consultative business-facing role influencing stakeholders at multiple levels

• Strong market knowledge across talent trends compensation and competitive dynamics

• High ownership mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional candidate and stakeholder experiences

• 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.

What Sets You Apart

• You love recruiting you are curious energized and constantly refining your craft

• You stay ahead of the market and bring fresh informed perspectives

• You balance data-driven decision-making with strong intuition and relationship building

• You thrive in complexity and bring structure clarity and confidence to hiring decisions

Success in Role Looks Like

• Building high-quality pipelines for hard-to-fill technical roles

• Direct to Consumer Organizations staffing agencies in the technical space and/or corporate experience

• Influencing hiring decisions through insightful data-backed consultative guidance

• Strengthening our access to top talent through proactive engagement and networks

• Elevating the overall technical hiring capability of the organization

Whats in it for you

• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family

• Were committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment. Our goal is to make sure all ouremployees have the chance to live up to their full potential

• Were honoured to be recognized as a 2025 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work Canada

• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work for prioritizing employee well-being fostering a positive work culture and achieving excellence in mental health

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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.

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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! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

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.

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