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Toronto - Canada

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Bring us your passion for digital or data analytics and well put you to work on exciting initiatives that answer the challenge: How can we do that better Working with a dedicated team of energetic forwardthinking innovators youll stretch your imagination and sharpen your skills on the leadingedge projects that are keeping Sun Life Financial ahead of the curve. You want more than a job; you want a career a career with a company that encourages learning and personal growth.You want to be one of the best.

Job Description:

We seek a visionary leader with deep expertise to spearhead architectural design and acceleration of cuttingedge Generative AI solutions across Sun Life globally. The Assistant Vice President GenAI Architecture & Services will report into the Global Chief Enterprise Architect and will also lead a team of Architects that partner with Business Groups across Canada U.S. Asia Corporate and SLC Management offices.

The AVP will play a critical role in aligning GenAI initiatives with enterprise goals ensuring scalable and compliant architectures and driving innovation through collaboration with crossfunctional teams. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between strategic vision and technical execution to deliver business outcomes using enterprise GenAI architecture patterns.

Responsibilities:

Strategy and innovation

  • Ability to orchestrate business and strategic knowledge and technology knowledge to understand how to generate business value from the use of GenAI
  • Contribute to the inclusion of GenAI solutions in business and IT strategies to achieve business outcomes including quantifiable business value
  • Evolving and maturing a culture that trusts and uses GenAI in the right places at the right time in the right amounts of human versus machine talent mix
  • Contribute to the growth of a GenAI and Dataliterate employee population at Sun Life
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to identify opportunities for GenAI driven innovation and define a roadmap for implementation.
  • Stay abreast of emerging GenAI technologies trends and innovations recommending and integrating them where appropriate.
  • Be a thought leader in the responsible and ethical use of GenAI at Sun Life to achieve our purpose


Team and Stakeholder Collaboration

  • Build strong partnership with Enterprise Data & Analytics Enablement team and the Data & Analytics Enterprise architecture team in defining and delivering the target state capabilities associated with the GenAI strategy.
  • Partner with business leaders application architects solution engineers and platform owners in the adoption of GenAI services patterns and best practices to achieve business outcomes
  • Advocate for GenAI adoption and educate the Enterprise Architecture & Engineering community as well as stakeholders on its value and implications.
  • Mentor and guide architects and engineers with respect to GenAI capabilities and patterns fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
  • Scale the use of GenAI capabilities by training team members supporting skill development and maintaining focus on change management and adoption.
  • Build strong relationships with external vendors research organizations and technology partners.
  • Act as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders translating business needs into technical requirements.
  • Partner with IT governance and security teams to ensure robust and compliant solutions

AI Architecture Design and Development

  • Work to continually improve the Sun Life architecture framework and governance processes to drive the consistent and responsible use of GenAI.
  • Own/Advise and maintain key deliverables to direct the evolution of GenAI capabilities services tools and platforms to support and inform build vs. buy decisions. Key deliverables including but not limited to:
    • Enterprise Capability Model aspects for GenAI.
    • Personas and Journeys to support aligning GenAI development and use across Sun Life.
    • Roadmap of foundational GenAI services tools and platforms.
    • Taxonomy of GenAI functional uses.
    • Data & Analytics supported reference architectures for GenAI systems (buy and build).

  • Oversee the design of GenAI frameworks and solutions including foundation model training / tuning deployment pipelines and integration with existing systems.
  • Ensure seamless integration of foundation models / LLMs with data platforms cloud infrastructure and enterprise applications.
  • Guide the selection of Foundation Models (LLMs SLMs) GenAI services tools and frameworks to meet enterprise needs.
  • Drive the adoption of best practices in the use of GenAI foundation models and LLMs in application development


Operational Excellence

  • Develop and communicate architectural blueprints standards and guidelines to support enterprisewide GenAI adoption.
  • Establish metrics and KPIs to evaluate the success and performance of GenAI solutions and value realization.
  • Optimize costs and resource utilization while ensuring high performance and scalability of GenAI services.
  • Monitor emerging GenAI and trends ensuring the organization stays ahead of the curve.
  • Promote the use of rapid prototyping using GenAI services to safely test new uses of GenAI in the enterprise.

Key Deliverables

  • Build GenAI architecture frameworks for scalable and safe application development using GenAIAdvise on /Identify on strategic GenAI initiatives aligned with enterprise goals.
  • Enhanced collaboration between business units delivery teams and governance teams for optimized outcomes.
  • Scalable data pipelines and governance systems for GenAI solutions.

Required Experience and Skills:

  • At least 5 years in a strategic technology leadership role
  • 10 years of experience in application architecture or data architecture at an enterprise level.
  • 3 to 5 years or more specializing in Generative AI (GenAI)
  • Proven track record of delivering enterprise AI ML and GenAIsolutions at scale.
  • Strong expertise in data ecosystems including data lakes data warehouses and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP).
  • Management and development of enterprise architects

Technical Expertise

  • Proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks and application development processes
  • Indepth knowledge of AI / ML frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch Scikitlearn) and data processing tools (Spark Kafka etc).
  • Proficiency in programming languages like Python R Java or Scala.
  • Expertise in designing AI pipelines MLOps practices and model deployment strategies.
  • Expertise in the use of AI / ML and GenAI in application development
  • Thought leader in the use of prototyping and experimentation to test new ideas including rapid deployment and rapid UI development

Soft Skills

  • Exceptional leadership and teambuilding capabilities.
  • Excellent communication skills to articulate technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
  • Strategic thinking and problemsolving abilities.
  • A passion for innovation and leveraging technology to create business value.

Educational Background

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering or a related field. Masters or Ph.D degree is preferred).

Preferred Certifications:

  • TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty Azure AI Engineer Associate or Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
  • Agile / Scrum certifications

As this position is posted in several locations we specify that bilingualism (French English both oral and written) is required for Quebec only as the position includes managing both French and Englishspeaking staff (Quebec and outside Quebec) and providing daily support to the team.

Whats in it for you

  • Great Place to Work Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canadaand 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. #LIHybrid
  • 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

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 factors. In 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 email a request to .

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

145000//235 000

Job Category:

IT Application Development

Posting End Date:

25/05/2025

Required Experience:

Exec

Employment Type

Full-Time

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