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Vice President, Enterprise Data and AI Platforms

Job in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Listing for: Sun Life
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-01
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
  • Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self.

You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

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 lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description
As the Vice President of Data and AI Platforms, you will be responsible for shaping and executing the strategic vision for our enterprise data, analytics, and AI shared capabilities. Your leadership will extend across the entire data and AI lifecycle — from designing robust enterprise-scale platforms and agentic AI infrastructure to ensuring data quality, accessibility, and intelligent automation. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven and AI-powered decision-making and innovation across the organization.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge data and agentic AI platforms that drive our business growth and excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with IT and Data Leaders globally and lead the engineering and delivery of global Data and AI capabilities.

Lead the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale data and AI platforms that support our business strategies and initiatives.

Drive the strategy and execution of a unified global data platform architecture, enabling consistent data accessibility, interoperability, and governance standards across all regions and business units.

Lead the expansion of enterprise data products and self-service capabilities to accelerate time-to-insight for global stakeholders, ensuring equitable data access regardless of geography.

Define, build, and scale the enterprise agentic AI platform infrastructure — including the agentic control plane, orchestration layers, model registries, and inference pipelines — to enable scalable, responsible AI development and deployment across the enterprise.

Architect and evolve the agentic control plane to manage agent lifecycle, governance, observability, and safe orchestration of autonomous AI agents across business domains.

Establish enterprise-wide standards and guardrails for the responsible use of agentic AI, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, ethical guidelines, and data privacy principles.

Partner with business and technology leaders to identify high-value AI and agentic use cases and accelerate the path from experimentation to production-grade AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Define and socialize Data Governance policies, practices, and capabilities that enable compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

Identify opportunities to streamline and optimize existing data processes and workflows, leveraging automation, agentic AI, and emerging technologies.

Collaborate with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders globally to deliver data and AI solutions that empower informed decision-making.

Manage budgets, allocate resources effectively, and optimize costs for data engineering, analytics, and AI platform investments.

Stay informed about the latest advancements in data technologies, agentic AI architectures, and industry trends, and assess their applicability to our ecosystem.

Introduce innovative technologies and methodologies to improve data processing, analysis, AI capabilities, and reporting.

Foster a culture of innovation,…
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