Director, AI Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

Sun Life Financial; Southwestern Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group insurance

Vacation days

Share ownership program

Hybrid work model

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Sun Life Financial in Ontario seeks a Director, Domain Enterprise Architect (AI) to lead the enterprise AI architecture across global operations, ensuring alignment with strategy, governance, and regulatory compliance. You will shape target-state architectures, roadmaps and reference models while enabling scalable, responsible AI programs.

You will partner with executives to drive investment decisions, oversee standards, and advance governance and oversight with a focus on measurable business

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Strategic AI Leadership

Enterprise Thinking

Executive Influence

Organizational Excellence

Business Acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Advanced architecture certifications preferred

AI-specific certifications desirable

Job description

Sun Life Financial in Ontario seeks a Director, Domain Enterprise Architect (AI) to lead the enterprise AI architecture across global operations, ensuring alignment with strategy, governance, and regulatory compliance. You will shape target-state architectures, roadmaps and reference models while enabling scalable, responsible AI programs.

You will partner with executives to drive investment decisions, oversee standards, and advance governance and oversight with a focus on measurable business