Director, Enterprise Data Architecture - Data Strategy

Description

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We seek a strategic individual contributor to join our Enterprise Data architecture team as a Director, Enterprise Data Architecture .

This leadership role is responsible for designing critical enterprise data strategy in consultation with Sun Life’s business and enterprise partners, including the holistic alignment of technologies, standards, and practices that enable Sun Life to deliver world class data and analytic systems.

This role will directly report into the Global Head (AVP) of Data Architecture.

In this role you will strategically guide the evolution of our enterprise data architecture 'north star' to support advanced data architectures such as event streaming, and Data Fabric and Mesh on cloud.

This is an innovation opportunity to gain experience with AI and ML initiatives on cloud for voice and text data.

What will you do?

• You’ll engage and lead the data strategy engagements with business line executives, and define data architectures for enterprise engagements.
• Develop data architecture patterns, define playbooks and technologies
• Establish and provide governance on enterprise data architecture and technology standards.
• Define and create Semantic Layer, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs.
• Create and present tools / tech proposals and evaluations at Enterprise Architecture Governance councils
• Analyze structural and enterprise data architecture requirements to best enable new software and applications
• Apply and enforce enterprise data architecture best practices to all enterprise solution architecture and design areas, including cloud native AWS, hybrid cloud, and on-prem.

This includes areas such as Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization.

• Collaborate with all regions to provide enterprise data architecture best practice and guidance on various delivery / implementations.
• You will also roll-up your sleeves and help the project teams with their complex technical issues from the enterprise data architecture point of view.
• Partner with the Data and Analytics teams to lead technology POCs and pilots in the data and analytics domain.
• Provide enterprise data architecture leadership and guidance on the design of end-to-end solutions for building data & analytics applications on cloud and on-premise platforms
• Coordinate with data life cycle management program in all aspects of the delivery
• Coordinate with the Data Science department to identify future needs and requirements
• Mentor other data systems designers (Data Architects), both within your team and within other Digital Business and Technology Services, or other Business units, in order to support solution development and application of best practices.
• Provide enterprise data architecture guidance to the solutions design team to drive data & analytics strategy across the enterprise
• Provides architecture consultation for the evaluation of complex data and software systems.
• Prior hands-on experience in designing and delivering data analytics solutions with proven business value.

What do you need to succeed?

• Strategic enterprise data architecture engagement skills with executive level stakeholders.
• 3+ years with cloud-based data architecture in a modern AWS environment. While AWS is preferred, for this particular role we can instead consider modern Azure or GCP cloud-based data architecture experience.
• Approximately 15+ years of build / design experience related to data service design, building data architecture, with prior experience leading end to end implementations.
• Strong knowledge on MDM (Master Data Management) , RDM, Data Modeling techniques, Data architecture patterns
• Defining and creating Semantic Layer, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs .
• Any additional experience with GraphQL, Random Forest and Tree, and ModelOps would be an asset, but not necessarily required.
• Background of working with data governance and its application
• Experience in Machine Learning / AI methodologies and event streaming is an asset.
• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Glue, Lambda, Redshift and / or Snowflake, and Informatica IICS, (or similar).
• Experience with data analytics and visualization using any modern age tools such as AWS Sagemaker, R Studio, Tableau (or similar).
• Extremely strong communication, critical thinking, conceptual and analytical skills.
• Excellent collaboration and leadership skills, a proven ability to adapt to challenges, and a strong interest in coaching and mentoring colleagues.

What’s in it for you?

• 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 in Canada - 2023
• Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US - 2022
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork 2022
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for Professional Development in Canada 2022
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces in Canada 2022
• Named Best Places to Work by Glassdoor 2021 and 2023
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
• Flexible hybrid work model including in-country (Canada) work-from-home if you prefer. #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

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.

Les personnes handicapées ayant besoin de mesures d'adaptation pour présenter leur candidature et celles qui doivent consulter les offres d'emploi sur un support de substitution peuvent envoyer leur demande par courriel à l'adresse ’.

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 / 110 000 - 180,000 / 180 000

Catégorie d'emploi :

Développement d'applications - TI

Fin de l'affichage : 05 / 05 / 2024

05 / 05 / 2024