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About the Role

The Senior Architect, Artificial Intelligence (Domain Architect) is responsible for advancing and governing the organization's AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI architecture capabilities through the development, approval, and operationalization of enterprise services, standards, patterns, and reference architectures. This role combines deep AI expertise with exceptional execution discipline, working closely with various teams to identify opportunities, analyze requirements, define scalable AI patterns, and drive approvals. The Senior Architect will be a domain expert responsible for enabling enterprise-wide adoption of approved AI capabilities while ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, well-governed, and aligned with organizational strategy and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

Define, document, and maintain enterprise AI services, capabilities, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
Develop reusable architectural building blocks supporting Generative AI, Agentic AI, orchestration frameworks, retrieval architectures, model access patterns, and AI governance controls.
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, vendor capabilities, and platform offerings for enterprise adoption suitability.
Define consumption models and guardrails for approved AI services.
Drive architecture reviews, governance approvals, risk assessments, and design reviews for AI-related initiatives.
Prepare and maintain architecture artifacts, decision records, standards documentation, pattern specifications, and governance submissions.
Collaborate with architecture review boards, technology governance forums, and risk stakeholders for timely approvals.
Ensure AI services align with enterprise architecture standards and regulatory requirements.
Partner with business groups to understand emerging needs, challenges, and strategic opportunities.
Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions to explore AI use cases and required capabilities.
Translate business requirements into scalable AI architecture recommendations.
Conduct gap assessments and capability analysis to identify new service requirements.
Provide domain expertise to Solution Architects and delivery teams implementing AI capabilities.
Guide teams toward approved patterns and enterprise AI platforms.
Assess architectural trade-offs involving security, privacy, explainability, scalability, operational supportability, and cost.
Ensure alignment with enterprise roadmaps and target-state architectures.
Incorporate Responsible AI principles into architecture standards and solution designs.
Partner with Risk, Legal, Compliance, Security, Privacy, and Data Governance teams.
Ensure solutions meet OSFI expectations, model risk requirements, audit needs, and organizational governance standards.
Define controls for human oversight, accountability, transparency, and monitoring.
Maintain detailed roadmaps, service backlogs, architecture repositories, and governance artifacts.
Track action items, dependencies, risks, and architectural decisions.
Ensure architecture deliverables are completed with accuracy, quality, and traceability.
Support multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining strong execution discipline.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline.
TOGAF, IASA, AWS, Azure, or equivalent architecture certifications preferred.
8+ years of architecture, engineering, or technology leadership experience.
5+ years focused on AI, analytics, automation, machine learning, or modern data platforms.
Experience operating within regulated financial services, insurance, wealth management, or similar environments.
Experience participating in architecture governance, standards development, and enterprise design reviews.
Experience developing architecture patterns, standards, and reference architectures.
Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life’s policies and practices.

Skills

AI Expertise: Strong understanding of Generative AI architectures, foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, tool invocation patterns, prompt engineering, and AI platform capabilities.
Business & Analysis: Strong requirements gathering, capability modeling, and business analysis skills with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes.
Attention to Detail: Exceptional documentation quality and the ability to create precise architecture artifacts and governance submissions.
Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills with senior executives, architects, engineers, risk partners, and business leaders.
Execution Excellence: Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, accountability, and follow-through.

Location

Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
8+ years of architecture, engineering, or technology leadership experience
5+ years focused on AI, analytics, automation, machine learning, or modern data platforms

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline
Master's degree an asset
TOGAF, IASA, AWS, Azure, or equivalent architecture certifications preferred

Salary/Compensations

90,000 - 140,000

Benefits

Recognized as a 2026 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work® Canada.
Recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®.
Hybrid organization offering choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually.

About the Company

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.