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About the Role

The Director, Domain Enterprise Architect (AI) is accountable for the enterprise AI architecture domain, ensuring all AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine intelligence, and intelligent automation investments align to a coherent strategic vision. This leader establishes the enterprise AI domain strategy, target-state architecture, standards, roadmaps, governance frameworks, reference architectures, and investment priorities required to scale AI responsibly across the organization. The Director functions as the senior architecture authority for AI, partnering closely with business executives, enterprise architects, platform leaders, risk functions, and technology teams to ensure AI investments are coordinated, reusable, governed, and strategically aligned. This role balances long-term strategic planning with strong execution leadership, ensuring the enterprise AI roadmap translates into measurable business outcomes while maintaining regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and architectural consistency.

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.

Requirements

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.

Skills

Strategic AI Leadership: Deep expertise in Generative AI, Agentic AI, automation, large language models, AI platforms, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI operating models.
Enterprise Thinking: Strong understanding of architecture governance, roadmaps, standards management, risk, security, and business capability planning.
Influence & Executive Presence: Exceptional executive communication capability, strong facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Organizational Excellence: Highly organized and execution-focused, with strong planning, prioritization, and governance management skills.
Business Acumen: Ability to connect AI investments directly to business outcomes, productivity gains, client experience improvements, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.

Location

Global operations

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director
10+ years
5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field.
Master's degree preferred.
Advanced architecture certifications preferred.
AI-specific certifications highly desirable.

Salary/Compensations

125,000 - 195,000

Benefits

A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale
A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.
20 vacation days per year.
Our Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.

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.
When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.
Discover how you can make a difference in the in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
We are proud to be included in Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Canada's Best Workplaces.
A warm, supportive, and inclusive culture.
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.