We seek a senior, technically hands-on Director, Enterprise Data Architecture to join Sun Life's Enterprise Data Architecture team. The role is a strategic individual contributor responsible for defining, designing, and governing enterprise data architectures that support business domains across Canada & Corporate functions, including HR, Finance, and Marketing.
Requirements
- Lead data architecture engagements with business and technology leaders to define enterprise and solution-level data architectures aligned to business outcomes.
- Design and govern enterprise data architecture patterns across core areas such as Master Data Management (MDM), data warehousing, marketing and analytical data, and cloud-based data platforms.
- Provide architectural leadership for data integration, data pipelines, and data availability across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud platforms.
- Establish and enforce enterprise data architecture standards, principles, and guardrails, ensuring consistency across delivery teams.
- Define logical and physical data models, canonical data structures, and core enterprise entities.
- Partner with Marketing, Finance, HR, and Analytics teams to ensure data architectures effectively support reporting, insights, and decision-making.
- Evaluate and recommend data technologies and platforms, presenting proposals and options at Enterprise Architecture governance forums.
- Apply architectural best practices related to security, reliability, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and cost optimization across data platforms.
- Collaborate with regional and global architecture teams to ensure alignment with enterprise-wide data architecture direction and reuse of patterns.
- Work closely with solution and delivery teams, providing hands-on guidance to resolve complex data architecture challenges.
- Partner with Data & Analytics teams to support pilots, proofs of concept, and platform evolution in the analytics and data domain.
- Support data lifecycle management practices including data quality, lineage, retention, and archival considerations.
- Mentor and coach data architects and solution designers, helping uplift enterprise-wide data architecture capability.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonus
- Pension, stock, and savings programs
- Inclusive, collaborative culture with strong focus on professional growth
