DataTechnical Lead

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.

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Are you ready to shine

At Sun Life we empower you to be your most brilliant self.

Who we are

Sun Life is a leading financial services company with 157 years of history that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We serve millions in Canada the U.S. Asia the U.K. and other parts of the world. We have a network of Sun Life advisors thirdparty partners and other distributors. Through them were helping set our clients free to live their lives their way from now through retirement. Were working hard to support their wellness and health management goals too. That way they can enjoy what matters most to them. And thats anything from running a marathon to helping their grandchildren learn to ride a bike.

To do this we offer a broad range ofprotection and wealth products and servicesto individuals businesses and institutions including:

• Insurance. Life health wellness disability critical illness stoploss and longterm care insurance

• Investments. Mutual funds segregated funds annuities and guaranteed investment products

• Advice. Financial planning and retirement planning services

• Asset management. Pooled funds institutional portfolios and pension funds

With innovative technology a strong distribution network and longstanding relationships with some of the worlds largest employers we are today providing financial security to millions of people globally.

Sun Life is a leading financial services company that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives with strong insurance asset management investments and financial advice portfolios. At Sun Life our asset management business draws on the talent and experience of professionals from around the globe.

Sun Life Global Solutions (SLGS)

With 32 years of operations in the Philippines and 17 years in India Sun Life Global Solutions (formerly Asia Service Centres) a microcosm of Sun Life is poised to harness the regions potential in a significant way from India and the Philippines to the world. We are architecting and executing a BOLDER vision: being a Digital and Innovation Hub shaping the Business driving Transformation and superior Client experience by providing expert Technology Business and Knowledge Services and advanced Solutions. We help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives our core purpose and mission. Drawing on our collaborative and inclusive culture we are reckoned as a Great Place to Work Top 100 Best Places to Work for Women and stand among the Top 11 Global Business Services Companies across India and the Philippines.

The technology function at Sun Life Global Solutions is geared towards growing our existing business deepening our client understanding managing new age technology systems and demonstrating thought leadership. We are committed to building greater domain expertise and engineering ability delivering end to end solutions for our clients and taking a lead in intelligent automation. Tech services at Sun Life Global Solutions have evolved in areas such as application development and management Support Testing Digital Data Engineering and Analytics Infrastructure Services and Project Management.

We are constantly expanding our strength in Information technology and are looking for fresh talents who can bring ideas and values aligning with our Digital strategy.

Our Client Impact strategy is motivated by the need to create an inclusive culture empowered by highly engaged people. We are entering a new world that focuses on doing purpose driven work. The kind that fills your day with excitement and determination because when you love what you do it never feels like work. We want to create an environment where you feel empowered to act and are surrounded by people who challenge you support you and inspire you to become the best version of yourself. As an employer we not only want to attract top talent but we want you to have the best Sun Life Experience.

We strive to Shine Together Make Life Brighter & Shape the Future!

What will you do

Data is a strategic asset for Sun Life and Data Management Platform ensures that every piece of data is welldocumented easily discoverable and adheres to the data quality standards. Further it enables modernizing data through consolidation trusted views advance matching algorithm eventdriven and API capabilities. At Sun Life we aim to enable our business partners and IT colleagues to deliver innovative client services that are BOLDER and future leaning.

As the Data Management Platform (DMP) Technical Lead you will be responsible for embedding a world class product development and engineering culture and organization. You will work with development architecture and operations as well as platform teams to ensure we are delivering a bestinclass technology solution. You will work closely together with the Business Platform Owner to ensure an integrated endtoend view across people and technology for the Business Platform. You will also defend the faith and work with stakeholders across the enterprise to ensure we are developing the right solutions. In parallel you will focus on building a highperforming team that will thrive in a fastpaced continuous deliveryengineering environment

The role involves architecting designing and delivering solutions in tool stack including Informatica MDM SaaS Informatica Data Quality Collibra Data Governance and other data tools.

Key responsibilities:

• Shape technical strategy (e.g. build vs. buy decisions technical roadmapping) in collaboration with architects

• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology stacks platforms and vendors including web application frameworks and cloud providers for solution development

• Attend team ceremonies as required; in particular feature refinement and crossteam iteration reviews/demos

• Drive the resolution of technical impediments

• Own the success of foundational enablers

• Champion for Research and Innovation

• Lead in scaled agile ceremonies and activities like quarterly reviews quarterly increment planning and OKR writing

• Collaborate with the Platform Owner in the writing and prioritization of technical capabilities and enablers Present platform delivery metrics OKR health and platform finance status to Executive audiences

• Collaborate with other Technical Leads

• Create and maintain the technical roadmap for inscope products and services at the platform/portfolio level

Key experience:

• B.E. / or equivalent Engineering professional

• Masters degree or equivalent experience in Marketing Business or finance is an added advantage

• 10 yrs. of experience in technical architecture solution design and platform engineering

• Strong experience in MDM Data Quality and Data Governance practices including tool stack such as Informatica MDM SaaS Informatica Data Quality and Collibra is a plus

• Good experience with major cloud platforms and data tools in cloud including but not limited to AWS Microsoft Azure Kafka CDC Tableau and Data virtualization tools

• Good experience in ETL and BI solution development and tool stack Informatica ETL experience is a plus

• Good experience in Data Architecture SQL NoSQL REST API data security and AI concepts

• Familiarity with agile methodologies and data factory operations processes including usage of tools like confluence Jira and Miro

• Strong knowledge of industry standards and regulations: A data platform owner should have knowledge of industry standards and regulations related to data management such as HIPAA PCIDSS and GDPR.

• Proven knowledge of working in financial services preferably insurance space

• Experience in senior engineering and technology roles working with teams to build/deliver digital products

• Experience in providing guidance and insight to establish governance processes direction and control to ensure objectives are achieved and risks are managed appropriately for product development

• A leader who has a track record of onboarding and developing engineering and product teams

• Experience as a technology leader who has defined and implemented technical strategies within complex organizations and is able to Influence and contribute to the higherlevel engineering strategy

• Has insight into the newest technologies and trends and is an expert in product development with experience in code delivery and management of full stack technology

• Experience in digital capabilities such as DevSecOps CI/CD and agile release management

• A wide experience and understanding of architecture in terms of solution data and integration

• Can provide direct daytoday engineering and technology problemsolving coaching direction and guidance to Technical Leads and Senior Technical Leads within their Platform

• Strong leadership skills with an ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders

• Ability to influence technical strategy at the BG and Enterprise level

• Experience working in Agile teams with a strong understanding of agile ways of working

• Experience managing technical priorities within an evolving product backlog

• Understands how to decompose large technical initiatives into actionable technical enablers

• Experience in the continuous improvement of software development workflows and pipelines

• Proven leadership; ability to articulate ideas to both technical and nontechnical audiences

• Ability to communicate strategy and objectives and align organizations to a common goal

• Strong problem solver with ability to lead the team to push the solution

• Ability to empower teams and encourage collaboration

• Ability to inspire people and teams building momentum around a vision

• Critical thinker and passion to challenge status quo to find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas

• Believes in a nonhierarchical culture of collaboration transparency and trust across the team

• Experimental mindset to drive innovation and continuous improvement of team

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