Sun Life is a leading financial services company with 157 years of history that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
We serve millions in Canada, the U.S., Asia, the U.K., and other parts of the world. We have a network of Sun Life advisors, third-party partners, and other distributors. Through them, we're helping set our clients free to live their lives their way, from now through retirement. We're working hard to support their wellness and health management goals, too. That way, they can enjoy what matters most to them. And that's anything from running a marathon to helping their grandchildren learn to ride a bike.
To do this, we offer a broad range of protection and wealth products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, including:
Insurance. Life, health, wellness, disability, critical illness, stop-loss, and long-term care insurance
Investments. Mutual funds, segregated funds, annuities, and guaranteed investment products
Advice. Financial planning and retirement planning services
Asset management. Pooled funds, institutional portfolios, and pension funds
SLGS provides Technology and Business Services to Sun Life businesses globally. Started in 2006, since then ASCI has achieved scale, growth, and operational maturity. We've also institutionalized Sun Life's global standards by integrating closely with their corporate functions. SLGS today has more than 1100 Engineers, 200+ AWS professionals, and a group of Certified Actuaries. They deliver various complex business solutions. The current workforce comprises of 75% Gen Y. We're proud to be a young, bustling organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage delivery schedules and ensure projects are delivered on time while meeting quality standards
- Provide delivery management & leadership on the design & end to end solutions for building Generative AI applications on cloud and on premise platforms.
- Ensure adherence of best practices to all solution architecture, design areas, including on-prem, AWS, or a combination. This includes areas such as Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization
- Lead delivery workforce of 15-30+ cross functional engineers, to support solution development and applications.
- Enable the expansion of the GenAI- Center of Excellence, through education support, publication of solution accelerators, and open discussions on data challenges and opportunities.
- Translate detailed requirements into functional specifications.
- Maintain documentation for processes, standards and knowledge sharing
- Provide high level estimates for project proposals and solution designs.
- Integrate with project teams according to Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology for either waterfall or agile projects.
- Conduct Proof of Technologies on the new Gen AI technologies on on-cloud and traditional data management, engineering, visualizations & analytics technologies to recommend the choice of technology for adoption at an enterprise level.
- Work closely with the Enterprise Architecture team to approve data patterns, technologies and seek architecture approvals.
- Strong hands-on experience in delivering enterprise solution with proven business value
- Build and manage effective working relationships with other departments, groups, or personnel.
Key Experience:
- 12+ years of build/design experience related to applications design, building architecture and leading end to end implementations, preferably 6+ years in a financial services company especially insurance.
- 5-7+ years experience in development, 3 of which in the capacity of Development and/or Delivery Manager
- Working with AI/ML teams preferred
- Experience in delivering projects in cloud using AWS technologies like Glue, Lambda, Redshift, S3, Kendra and open source technologies like Python and Java.
- Excellent reporting and stakeholder communications and must have managed reporting at leadership level to senior stakeholders
- Extremely strong communication, critical thinking, and analytical skills. This includes skills such as conceptual requirements interpretation, solution creation, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent collaboration and leadership skills, a proven ability to adapt to challenges, and a strong interest in coaching and mentoring colleagues.
- Experience with productionizing services at scale and related change management.
- Strong experience in leading DevOps enablement and adoption programs across 2-3 projects across on premise and on cloud data technologies
