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About the Role
We are looking for a Director, Technology Delivery – Finance & Actuarial to lead technology delivery across our Finance and Actuarial portfolio. This leadership role spans technology strategy, portfolio delivery, modernization, operations, and people. The Director will partner with business and technology leaders to shape multi-year technology roadmaps, deliver complex change, and ensure the portfolio remains secure, resilient, and positioned to support evolving business priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead technology delivery across the Finance and Actuarial portfolio, ensuring investment and delivery align with business priorities and strategic outcomes.
- Partner with Finance and Actuarial leaders to translate business strategy into multi-year technology roadmaps, investment priorities, and executable plans.
- Shape and execute the technology strategy for the portfolio, aligned with enterprise architecture and broader technology priorities.
- Provide technology leadership across complex initiatives, from strategy, architecture, and solution design through implementation, transition, and ongoing operations.
- Lead cross-functional teams spanning architecture, engineering, data, integration, security, operations, and program delivery.
- Provide clear leadership across scope, funding, sequencing, dependencies, technology risk, and delivery trade-offs.
- Drive portfolio modernization, reducing legacy complexity and technical debt while improving resilience, scalability, and maintainability.
- Ensure technology solutions are secure, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, engineering, security, and regulatory standards.
- Build strong relationships across business and technology teams to manage dependencies and deliver integrated outcomes.
- Lead strategic vendor and technology partner relationships, ensuring clear accountability for outcomes, quality, value, and delivery commitments.
- Drive portfolio planning and prioritization, balancing transformation investment with modernization, technical health, regulatory requirements, and operational priorities.
- Use portfolio, delivery, and operational metrics to understand performance, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement.
- Build and develop high-performing teams, growing technical capability, developing future leaders, and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Provide senior leaders with clear visibility into portfolio health, investment requirements, key decisions, risks, and outcomes.
Requirements
- Post-secondary education in computer science, engineering, business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Significant progressive experience in technology leadership and delivery, including leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing technology strategies and multi-year roadmaps.
- Strong delivery leadership, with the ability to translate business priorities into technology outcomes and drive complex initiatives through to delivery.
- Experience leading complex initiatives across applications, data, integration, security, and technology infrastructure.
- Strong business, technical, and architectural judgment, with the ability to balance strategic direction with pragmatic delivery decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships, influence across organizational boundaries, and solve complex business problems through technology.
- Experience with portfolio planning, investment prioritization, financial management, and vendor management.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge existing approaches, and make pragmatic decisions that balance business outcomes, risk, cost, quality, and speed.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to make complex technology topics understandable to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A bias for action, curiosity, and critical thinking, with the ability to adapt as business and technology priorities evolve.
- A growth mindset and commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
Skills
- Technology Strategy
- Portfolio Delivery
- Modernization
- Operations
- People Leadership
- Technology Roadmaps
- Complex Change Delivery
- Architecture
- Engineering
- Data
- Integration
- Security
- Program Delivery
- Vendor Management
- Financial Management
- SAP S/4HANA (asset)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Director
Education Level
- Post-secondary education in computer science, engineering, business or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 - $155,000 annually
Benefits
- Career Development opportunities
- Access to industry-leading learning programs
- Up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement
- Flexible health and dental benefits
- $5,000 mental health benefit
- In addition to regular vacation and personal days
- Volunteer day
- Company-matching pension plan
- Share ownership program
- Additional investment options
- Employee recognition programs
- Service milestone celebrations
- Employee discounts
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Mentorship programs
- Social clubs and events
About the Company
- We are united by a shared purpose: to improve the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians.
- Our company is trusted by 1 in 3 Canadians and contributes to the strength of communities across the country.
- We’re looking for people who live our values everyday: we step up, we do the right thing, and we deliver – for our customers, communities and each other.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to removing barriers and ensuring equal access to employment. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application process may contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com. All information provided will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and Canada Life policies.