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 forward-thinking innovators youll stretch your imagination and sharpen your skills on the leading-edge 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.

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About the Role

Are you a software engineering leader with a technology innovator or a founder-level engineer in a start-up Do you have extensive 0 to 1 product or platform experience

We are building a startup-style innovation team within Sun Life to rapidly design build and scale transformative digital productsincluding an agentic AI platform and new client experience solutions.

As Engineering Lead In-House Accelerator you will be the first engineering hire and technical counterpart to the AVP Digital & Innovation the early phase this role is intentionally hands-on and execution-heavy: you will write production code make pragmatic architecture decisions and ship working software quickly in a regulated environment.

Over time as the accelerator proves value and grows you will build and mentor the engineering teamhiring strong builders setting technical standards and shaping an engineering culture rooted in ownership speed and learning. This is a builder-first role with clear long-term ownership for scaling both the technology and the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-On Technical Leadership (Immediate Priority)

• Write production-quality code daily across backend APIs and AI-enabled services

• Make fast pragmatic architecture decisions that prioritize learning and delivery while keeping future scale in mind

• Design and evolve Sun Lifes agentic AI platform including orchestration integration layers APIs and guardrails

• Evaluate and experiment withnew technologies AI models and vendor solutions

Team Building & Engineering Culture (As the Team Scales)

• Hire onboard mentor and develop a small high-caliber engineering team (AI backend full-stack)

• Lead primarily through contribution and example not process or hierarchy

• Establish engineering practices standards and ways of working that enable speed without sacrificing quality

• Foster a culture of experimentation ownership and continuous learning

Quality Security & Enterprise Navigation

• Build with security reliability and compliance awarenessappropriate fora regulated financial institution

• Understand which enterprise guardrails matter now and navigate governance without slowing experimentation

• Partner pragmatically with InfoSec Legal Compliance and Data Governance as solutions mature

Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on engineering experience with recent demonstrable coding work in a 0 - 1 environment.

• Experience acting as a software engineering leader or founder-level engineer on complex digital products or platforms

• Strong fluency in modern cloud architecture (AWS Azure or GCP) and DevOps practices (CI/CD containers infrastructure as code)

• Proven ability tooperatein ambiguity make trade-offs and ship imperfect solutions quickly

• Ability to grow from individual contributor to team buildercomfortable hiring mentoring and raising the bar for others

• Startup or early-stage product experience is a significant asset

• Nice to have: Experience with AI/ML systems building with LLMs prompt engineering or agentic architectures

What Success Looks Like

• Within the first 90 days: working software shipped real users engaged and clear technical and product learnings captured (even if it is ugly)

• Within 612 months: a reusable technical foundation supporting multiple experiments and MVPs

• A small high-performing engineering team that can move quickly without heavy process

• Demonstrated business and client impact through adoption outcomes and measurable value

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. #LI-Hybrid
• 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

For candidates with these preferred skills exceptions beyond the usual salary range below may be possible

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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