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Description de poste:
Role Summary
The Director, Domain Enterprise Architect (Artificial Intelligence - AI) is accountable for the enterprise AI architecture domain, ensuring all AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine intelligence, and intelligent automation investments across global operations align to a coherent strategic vision.
This leader establishes the enterprise AI domain strategy, target-state architecture, standards, roadmaps, governance frameworks, reference architectures, and investment priorities required to scale AI responsibly across the organization.
The Director functions as the senior architecture authority for AI, partnering closely with business executives, enterprise architects, platform leaders, risk functions, and technology teams to ensure AI investments are coordinated, reusable, governed, and strategically aligned.
This role balances long-term strategic planning with strong execution leadership, ensuring the enterprise AI roadmap translates into measurable business outcomes while maintaining regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and architectural consistency.
What will you do?
Enterprise AI Domain Strategy
Define and maintain the enterprise AI architecture strategy.
Establish target-state AI domain architecture and multi-year roadmaps.
Create AI reference models, standards, principles, policies, and guardrails.
Ensure AI strategy aligns with enterprise business strategy, technology strategy, and operating model.
Enterprise Investment Alignment
Establish visibility into AI investments across global business units.
Identify duplication, fragmentation, risk, and technology overlap.
Drive enterprise-wide reuse and strategic consolidation of AI capabilities.
Guide investment decisions toward scalable enterprise platforms and services.
Domain Governance & Standards
Own enterprise AI standards, approved technologies, architecture patterns, and reference architectures.
Chair and influence governance forums related to AI architecture decisions.
Evolve enterprise controls governing AI deployment, autonomy, human oversight, security, risk, and compliance.
Oversee exception management and architecture decision processes.
AI Portfolio & Roadmap Leadership
Develop centralized AI roadmaps supporting business capabilities and strategic priorities.
Coordinate roadmap activities across business groups and technology organizations.
Ensure foundational AI investments support future enterprise demand.
Assess emerging technologies and define adoption strategies.
Executive Engagement
Serve as the trusted advisor to executives regarding AI strategy and investment planning.
Communicate AI opportunities, risks, and architectural direction.
Facilitate strategic alignment between business leaders and technology organizations.
Present architecture recommendations to leadership and governance bodies.
Responsible AI & Regulatory Oversight
Establish enterprise Responsible AI architecture principles.
Ensure AI initiatives comply with regulatory expectations, model governance requirements, privacy obligations, and risk frameworks.
Drive transparency, explainability, accountability, and human oversight standards.
Partner with Risk, Security, Compliance, Legal, and Data leaders to mature enterprise AI governance.
Capability Development
Build and mentor a high-performing AI architecture community.
Develop AI architecture practices, methodologies, and knowledge-sharing programs.
Support Solution Architects and other Domain Architects in adopting enterprise standards.
Foster innovation while maintaining governance and execution discipline.
Value Realization
Define measures supporting AI investment value realization.
Track enterprise outcomes and adoption trends.
Ensure strategic AI initiatives generate measurable business value.
Continuously evolve roadmaps based on outcomes and feedback.
Success Measures
Well-defined and widely adopted enterprise AI strategy and roadmap.
Reduction of redundant AI investments and technology fragmentation.
Strong alignment of AI initiatives to business priorities and enterprise standards.
Effective governance and regulatory compliance across AI initiatives.
Increased adoption of approved enterprise AI capabilities.
Demonstrated business value from AI investments.
High confidence from executives, business leaders, and technology stakeholders.
Strong execution against roadmap commitments and strategic objectives.
What do you need to succeed?
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field.
Master's degree preferred.
Advanced architecture certifications preferred.
AI-specific certifications highly desirable.
Experience
10+ years of architecture leadership experience.
5+ years leading enterprise AI, data, analytics, digital transformation, or emerging technology domains.
Proven experience defining enterprise technology strategies and roadmaps.
Experience influencing senior executives and large-scale investment decisions.
Experience within highly regulated industries, preferably insurance, wealth management, banking, or financial services.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide architecture programs and governance functions.
Skills
Strategic AI Leadership: Deep expertise in Generative AI, Agentic AI, automation, large language models, AI platforms, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI operating models.
Enterprise Thinking: Strong understanding of architecture governance, roadmaps, standards management, risk, security, and business capability planning.
Influence & Executive Presence: Exceptional executive communication capability, strong facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Organizational Excellence: Highly organized and execution-focused, with strong planning, prioritization, and governance management skills.
Business Acumen: Ability to connect AI investments directly to business outcomes, productivity gains, client experience improvements, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.
What’s in it for you?
A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale
A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.
Time off that allows you to focus on the moments that matter most. 20 vacation days per year.
Our Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.
We are proud to be included in Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Canada's Best Workplaces.
A warm, supportive, and inclusive culture.
L'étendue du salaire de base s'applique au lieu principal pour lequel l'emploi est affiché. Elle peut varier en fonction du lieu de travail du candidat retenu ou d'autres facteurs. En plus du salaire de base, les employés admissibles de Sun Life participent à divers régimes d'encouragement dont le paiement est discrétionnaire et assujetti au rendement individuel et à celui de l'entreprise. Certains rôles axés sur les ventes comportent des régimes d'encouragement à la vente basés sur les résultats des ventes individuelles ou de groupe.
La diversité et l'inclusion ont toujours été au cœur de nos valeurs chez Sun Life. Une main-d'œuvre diversifiée avec des perspectives variées et des idées créatives profite à nos Clients, aux communautés où nous opérons et à nous tous comme collègues. Nous accueillons les demandes de personnes qualifiées de tous les milieux.
Les personnes handicapées qui ont besoin d'accommodements dans le processus de demande ou celles qui ont besoin d'offres d'emploi dans un format différent peuvent envoyer une demande par courriel à [email protected] .
Nous sommes fiers d'être une organisation hybride qui offre à nos employés le choix et la flexibilité de travailler à la fois au bureau et virtuellement en fonction des besoins de l'entreprise, de nos Clients et de vous.
Nous pouvons utiliser l'intelligence artificielle pour soutenir la recherche de candidats, le filtrage et la planification des entrevues.
Nous remercions tous les candidats d'avoir manifesté de l'intérêt pour ce poste. Seuls les candidats sélectionnés pour une entrevue seront contactés.
Échelle salariale :
125,000/125 000 - 195,000/195 000
Catégorie d'emploi :
Développement d'applications - TI
Fin de l'affichage :
23/08/2026
