Director, Domain Architect — Cloud Modernization & AI

Sun Life; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 135,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible group insurance

20 vacation days per year

Share Ownership Program

Job summary

Sun Life is seeking a Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, focusing on Technology Modernization and Cloudification. You will lead the architecture to modernize and migrate Sun Life’s on-prem estate to cloud, aligning with enterprise priorities and regulatory requirements.

You’ll define target architectures, roadmaps, and governance across OpenShift, virtualization, servers, databases and storage. Collaboration with executives and teams is essential for successful transitions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Enterprise architecture credentials such as TOGAF, IASA CITA preferred.
• Advanced cloud architecture certification preferred.
• 10+ years in progressive architecture roles including cloud/infrastructure.
• Experience designing enterprise cloud architectures and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-enabled automation projects for migration planning and documentation.
• Define, maintain, and communicate domain architecture strategy and future-state architectures.
• Develop integrated roadmaps for migrating on-premise technologies to cloud services.
• Maintain architecture docs covering estate, target cloud architectures, and retirement plans.
• Collaborate with Technology Executives to align migration with priorities and risks.
• Assess current estate to identify migration opportunities and security gaps.
• Define target cloud architectures and retirement plans for on-premises assets.
• Provide governance and ensure decisions meet security, resilience, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Cloud architecture

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Cloud migration

Executive communication

Architecture governance

AI-enabled automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IS

TOGAF/IASA or equivalent

Advanced cloud architecture cert

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

virtualization

Databases/Storage

Job description

Sun Life is seeking a Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, focusing on Technology Modernization and Cloudification. You will lead the architecture to modernize and migrate Sun Life’s on-prem estate to cloud, aligning with enterprise priorities and regulatory requirements.

You’ll define target architectures, roadmaps, and governance across OpenShift, virtualization, servers, databases and storage. Collaboration with executives and teams is essential for successful transitions.