- Responsible to develop and publish architectural blueprints for client journey and experience products for both web and mobile . This includes defining requirements, principles, capability assessments, gap analysis, feasibilities, risk assessments, component specifications, and other models to guide technology decisions.
- Accountable to ensure overall architecture integrity of solutions while bringing right enablers for business capabilities by mitigating risks, and where applicable deliver building blocks through MVPs (minimal viable products).
- Build consensus among technology and business stakeholders to ensure viability and alignments of north star architecture. This also includes accountability to get approvals of architecture through Architecture Governances Forums.
- Support the creation of a multi-year product roadmaps that addresses (1) modernizing client journeys & experiences, (2) enables One Sun opportunities across Sun Life and (3) creates an ecosystem for deep client engagement.
- Collaborate with Product Owners & Hubs to align the roadmaps with other technology and platform strategies.
- Develop proof of concepts that validate the solutions, and present results to leaderships and executive audiences.
- Coach product teams to deliver within timelines, create modular and scalable solutions that addresses future architectural changes and design. Guide them on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, automated deployment.
- Provide architecture support for journeys across various lines of businesses including Client Experience Office (CXO), Global Retirement & Investments, Group Benefits, and Retail.
- Shape technical strategy for client journey products (e.g., build vs. buy decisions, modernization approach, technical road-mapping)
- Drive modernization, cloud and API adoption across client journey products.
- Provide direct day to day tactical coaching, direction and guidance to technical leaders within the client journey teams.
- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology stacks, platforms and vendors, including web application frameworks and cloud providers for solution development.
- Support the usage of Agile methodologies and DevOps frameworks for client journey delivery.
- Provide guidance and insight to establish governance processes, direction and control to ensure objectives are achieved and risks are managed appropriately for the evolution of client journeys.
- Knowledge of the Insurance and/or Financial Services landscape in Canada, or other similar industries where the external customer experience journey is of high quality (eg. telecommunications).
- 15+ years of experience across application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), Open API specification and Swagger, web & mobile applications, modern Javascript (React or similar), micro-frontends, UI/UX design systems, Cloud / SaaS application integration and middleware to enable the needs of client journeys.
- Specialized Architecture Road Mapping skills.The creation of frameworks, patterns and models in both web and mobile environments.
- Experience with SPA (Single Page Application) architecture would be a strong asset.
- Architecture certifications are definite assets (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, AWS, etc.).
- Hands on experience with any of Enterprise architecture tools (e.g. Sparx EA, Ardoq, Orbus, AWS Well-Architected etc.).
- Technology Industry - vendors, solutions, emerging technology, market trends, and determine potential impact to business services and process.
- Operational knowledge of AWS cloud technology frameworks including VPC's, Lambda, EC2, S3, Glacier, Redshift, Sagemaker etc is an asset. Experience with alternative major cloud environments will also be considered.
- Successful completion of a Masters or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, IT Management or related field.
- Great Place to Work Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canada – 2024
- Great Place to Work certified for Best Workplaces in Ontario - 2023
- Great Place to Work Certified in Canada in Financial Services and Insurance – 2023
- Great Place to Work Certified in Canada for Most Trusted Executive Team - 2023
- Great Place to Work Certified in Canada and the US - 2022
- Great Place to Work list for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork – 2022
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- Named "Best Places to Work" by Glassdoor – 2021 and 2023
- Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
- 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
- A common sense dress code, where you decide how you dress based on your day
- The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
Director, Enterprise Architecture - Waterloo, Canada - Sun Life
Description
Description
de poste:About Enterprise Architecture
The Enterprise Architecture team provides the technology and services our business partners need to continue to innovate for our clients, advisors and partners in order to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Through innovation and collaboration, we are striving to find new and better ways to bring value to Sun Life globally.
The Opportunity
We are on an exciting path to transform Sun Life Canada's Client, Sponsor and Advisor journeys, delivering personalized experiences, digitized processes, and consistent capabilities across each business unit. We are also growing our Sun Life Health and Wealth businesses by offering clients greater services through an expanded digital ecosystem and orchestrated unified commerce.
You will demonstrate a strategic and technology savvy mindset in understanding the Sun Life customer Digital & Omni-Channel journeys. You will work with business partners to deliver Client Journey capabilities onto modern digital and strategic platforms. We are creating a unified and frictionless customer experience across different sales channels and touchpoints. The goal of this orchestrated seamless commerce is to make our customer journey as smooth and integrated as possible, regardless of the channels with which the customer is engaged throughout their journey.
What you'll be doing:
Reporting to the AVP, Enterprise Architecture - Digital Journeys & Omnichannel, this role will closely partner with the Client Experience Office (CXO), Digital platform teams, Infrastructure teams and other Sun Life business units to create the client journeys enterprise technology solutions and integration architecture for an orchestrated client lifecycle across product lines and channels:
You will also be responsible for the following:
The experience you need to be successful in the role:
What's in it for you?
L'échelle du salaire de base est pour l'emplacement principal du poste affiché. Elle peut varier selon l'emplacement du candidat sélectionné et d'autres facteurs. En plus du salaire de base, les employés admissibles de la Financière Sun Life participent à différents programmes de rémunération incitative, dont le montant octroyé est discrétionnaire et dépend du rendement de l'employé et de la compagnie. Certains postes de vente participent à des programmes de rémunération incitative basés sur les résultats de vente individuels ou de groupe.
Depuis toujours, la diversité et l'intégration sont au cœur des valeurs de la Financière Sun Life. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifié ayant des points de vue variés et des idées créatives est avantageux pour nos clients, pour les collectivités où nous exerçons nos activités, ainsi que pour nous tous, en tant que collègues. Nous accueillons avec enthousiasme les candidatures de personnes compétentes provenant de tous les horizons.
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À la Sun Life, nous voulons créer un environnement de travail flexible où nos employés sont outillés pour donner le meilleur d'eux-mêmes. Nous offrons plusieurs options de travail flexibles selon les exigences du poste et les besoins individuels. N'hésitez pas à en discuter pendant le processus de sélection.
Nous remercions tous les candidats de l'intérêt manifesté pour ce poste. Nous ne communiquerons qu'avec les personnes qui auront été retenues pour passer une entrevue.
Échelle salariale:
110,000/ ,000/180 000Catégorie d'emploi :
Développement d'applications - TIFin de l'affichage :
15/04/2024