Jobs at Sun Life Financial, Inc.

The Senior Data Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable data pipelines and infrastructure using AWS Glue, Kafka, and Step Functions. Responsibilities include ETL development, data modeling, data quality, troubleshooting, compliance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The role also mentors Data Engineers and supports analytics and business intelligence initiatives. Required expertise includes SQL, Python, AWS services, data warehousing, and ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, or SSIS.

Provides executive cybersecurity leadership for Sun Life Asset Management, overseeing cyber risk, resilience, governance, regulatory compliance, security strategy, third-party risk, CIAM platforms, incident preparedness, and transformation initiatives. Advises business and technology executives, challenges risk decisions, manages escalations, represents the organization with regulators and auditors, and leads approximately 10 security professionals across a global matrixed environment.

Leads cybersecurity strategy, cyber risk oversight, resilience, governance, regulatory engagement, and security outcomes for Sun Life Canada. Advises executives, challenges risk decisions, oversees third-party and technology risks, supports incident preparedness, and guides secure adoption of cloud, AI, automation, and digital platforms. The role leads approximately 10 security professionals, represents security with regulators and auditors, and aligns business priorities with enterprise security strategy and risk appetite.

Direct enterprise underwriting and claims risk management for mortality and morbidity risks. Redesign risk programs, develop compliance and performance tools, assess underwriting experience, investigate material risks, and recommend corrective actions. Serve as an expert for complex medical and financial underwriting cases, make decisions within approval authority, challenge business-unit practices, and collaborate with global underwriting, product, pricing, insurance risk, and reinsurance teams.

Leads financial close, IFRS reporting, Bermuda Monetary Authority filings, audit coordination, and internal financial controls for Sun Life Private Wealth Bermuda. Prepares financial statements and management reporting, assesses accounting treatment for new products, supports regulatory compliance, and coordinates control remediation. The role partners with Finance, Actuarial, Product Development, auditors, and other stakeholders while contributing to finance transformation initiatives.

Recruits, onboards, coaches, and develops experienced financial advisors. Provides sales management, business planning, performance coaching, regulatory oversight, training, and consulting to grow insurance and wealth practices. Builds referral relationships, supports recruiting events, manages advisor performance, drives adoption of business processes, and contributes to district sales, productivity, client engagement, and recruiting targets.

Lead SQL Server infrastructure modernization across distributed environments. Responsibilities include designing resilient database architectures, implementing AlwaysOn and failover clusters, automating deployments with Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell, developing backup and disaster recovery strategies, optimizing performance with AI-powered tools, supporting cloud integration, leading infrastructure projects, documenting best practices, mentoring colleagues, and participating in 24/7 on-call support.

Conduct technology, industry, and competitor research; perform market scans and benchmarking; synthesize findings into executive-ready insights; support enterprise and technology strategy projects; develop presentations, briefing notes, assessments, and recommendations; coordinate strategic initiatives; and improve strategy planning, governance, and execution practices.

Provides technical governance for application and infrastructure changes entering staging and production. Reviews deployment risks, dependencies, sequencing, architecture, contingency plans, and go/no-go decisions. Leads technical change-review discussions, maintains change records, prepares leadership reports, and supports disaster recovery planning and activities. The role requires strong systems analysis, facilitation, stakeholder management, reporting, and technical understanding of software delivery and production environments, along with participation in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Manages audit and risk programs for the Sun Life Health business, including SOC 1 and SOX audits, control matrices, quality assurance testing, key controls, business continuity, disaster recovery, risk assessments, and technical accounting memos. The role also supports EUC and risk-model compliance while leading, mentoring, and developing finance associates.

The Senior Financial Analyst supports expense reporting, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, financial modeling, and variance analysis. The role analyzes expense trends, identifies cost drivers, provides insights to business leaders, and supports finance transformation through process improvements and documentation. Responsibilities also include executive presentations, ad hoc financial analysis, cost-benefit studies, and developing trusted partnerships with business stakeholders.

Senior Data Scientist supporting Canadian business units to design, develop, and deploy ML and GenAI solutions (including agents, chatbots, RAG, and vector-based retrieval). Translate business goals into analytics, perform feature engineering, model training/evaluation, prompt engineering, and mentor junior staff. Provide technical leadership, design artifacts, stakeholder communication, and drive continuous improvement.

Provides reliability engineering and application operations support for critical Java-based systems. Responsibilities include monitoring and observability, incident response, automation, release and capacity management, performance tuning, production troubleshooting, and post-incident corrective actions. The role collaborates with development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams, participates in on-call rotations, builds self-healing tooling, and promotes reliable, scalable, and secure digital experiences.

Lead Sun Life Canada's organic social media and community strategy across 12+ platforms. Manage social consultants, oversee content, moderation, influencer partnerships, social listening, analytics, AI-enabled discovery, and platform roadmaps. Translate audience behavior and cultural trends into business insights while collaborating with brand, creative, content, SEO, and external partners. Ensure credible, engaging, compliant social experiences and measure their contribution to brand, community, discoverability, and business outcomes.

Manage and support security platforms (CrowdStrike, Netskope, Semperis), implement new controls, run proofs-of-concept, deploy and operationalize security technologies, participate in 24x7 on-call incident response, document playbooks/policies, and transition projects to BAU while improving platform processes.

Responsible for access reviews, attestation processes, audit and regulatory compliance, and identity-related risk reduction. The role supports IAM governance, certificate lifecycle management, security platform teams, internal clients, and audit teams. It requires analyzing access data with SQL, producing management reports, recommending security controls, and collaborating with technical and project teams. Experience with IAM tools such as SailPoint, Venafi, CyberArk, and ServiceNow is required or beneficial.

Design, develop, deploy, and operate enterprise AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions on AWS. Build RAG pipelines, intelligent agents, serverless and containerized services, secure integrations, evaluation and monitoring systems, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code. Collaborate with architects, product owners, security teams, data engineers, and business stakeholders while providing production support, optimizing performance and cost, documenting architectures, and mentoring junior engineers.

Leads global Employee Relations process improvement and transformation initiatives across Canada, the U.S., and Asia. The role redesigns workflows, governance, documentation, and case-management processes; coordinates cross-functional workshops; develops change, communications, training, and enablement materials; and drives adoption and continuous improvement across ER teams.

Supports Talent Acquisition programs, recruiting technology, governance, documentation, training, change management, compliance, financial administration, vendor management, and reporting. The role improves recruiting processes and candidate, recruiter, and hiring-manager experiences while supporting technology adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, audit readiness, budgets, purchase orders, invoices, dashboards, and operational insights.

Leads portfolio and site strategy for Sun Life’s corporate real estate portfolio. Develops business cases, financial analyses, scenario comparisons, and executive decision materials for renewals, relocations, consolidations, and investments. Coordinates leasing, facilities, design, project management, finance, and business stakeholders; identifies risks and opportunities; drives alignment, approvals, and follow-through. Requires strong financial modeling, advanced Excel, stakeholder management, communication, and strategic problem-solving skills.