Senior Cloud AI Solution Architect for Insurance

Sun Life Financial; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life Financial's Private Wealth unit in Singapore seeks a Solution Architect to lead IT architecture across projects, shaping cloud-native, API-driven solutions and AI/ML workloads.

You'll influence senior executives, drive agile DevOps, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and collaborate with regional teams to deliver scalable, data-driven platforms.

This role requires extensive insurance-IT experience and strong communication, with travel occasional to support regional programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• 15+ years IT experience, including 7+ years in insurance
• Cloud-native, microservices-based, API-driven insurance solutions
• Hands-on with AI/ML, GenAI, big data and IoT
• AWS-based architecture with EKS/Lambda/SageMaker/Bedrock
• Governing IT security, risk and regulatory requirements

Responsibilities

• Lead IT architecture for projects and programs focusing on cloud-native, AI/ML, and data-driven solutions in insurance
• Drive the architecture lifecycle from conceptualization to execution using agile/DevOps
• Evaluate solutions for sustainability, scalability, and integration with existing systems
• Provide governance on architecture standards across the region (cloud, APIs, data-centric design)
• Define target-state AWS cloud architecture and related ML/GenAI components
• Identify and evaluate insurance solutions across underwriting, claims, CRM, workflow and payments
• Serve as architecture liaison between Private Wealth and IT Architecture team
• Present to senior executives on technology-driven transformation
• Collaborate with Product Owners and tech leads on reviews and patterns
• Influence senior executives on cross-functional architectural decisions
• Ensure compliance with security, risk, data privacy, and regulatory requirements
• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical problems

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cloud architecture

Agile/DevOps

Stakeholder management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS (EKS, Lambda)

SageMaker

Bedrock

APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Sun Life Financial's Private Wealth unit in Singapore seeks a Solution Architect to lead IT architecture across projects, shaping cloud-native, API-driven solutions and AI/ML workloads.

You'll influence senior executives, drive agile DevOps, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and collaborate with regional teams to deliver scalable, data-driven platforms.

This role requires extensive insurance-IT experience and strong communication, with travel occasional to support regional programs.