Senior Tech Resilience & Recovery Leader

Sun Life Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life Financial seeks a senior AVP of Technology Resilience & Recovery to establish and lead the 2LOD resilience capability across critical operations. You will govern recoverability, DR strategies, backup resilience, and cloud/hybrid resilience, ensuring alignment with business impact tolerances and RTO/RPO expectations.

You will influence senior stakeholders, drive evidence-based testing, and deliver enterprise reporting while shaping resilience strategy in a global, regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of technology resilience, DR, data resilience, and cyber recovery.
• Experience aligning resilience with risk governance and regulatory expectations.
• Ability to translate risk gaps into actionable plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise 2LOD technology resilience capability across critical operations.
• Oversee recovery capabilities, RTO/RPO alignment and evidence maturity.
• Chairs governance on resilience posture and remediation closure readiness.
• Coordinate regulatory reporting and external inquiries related to resilience.

Skills

Technology resilience

Disaster recovery

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Regulatory risk oversight

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Professional certifications (CBCP/MBCI, CRISC, CISM, CISSP)

Tools

BCP/DR tooling

Job description

Sun Life Financial seeks a senior AVP of Technology Resilience & Recovery to establish and lead the 2LOD resilience capability across critical operations. You will govern recoverability, DR strategies, backup resilience, and cloud/hybrid resilience, ensuring alignment with business impact tolerances and RTO/RPO expectations.

You will influence senior stakeholders, drive evidence-based testing, and deliver enterprise reporting while shaping resilience strategy in a global, regulated environment.