Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, Technology Modernization and Cloudification

Location: Montreal (administrative region)

Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, Technology Modernization and Cloudification page is loaded## Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, Technology Modernization and Cloudificationlocations:
Montreal, Quebec:
Toronto, Ontario:
Waterloo, Ontario time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition  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:

** Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, Technology Modernization and Cloudification Reporting to the
** Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Core Platforms**, the Director, Domain Enterprise Architect, Technology Modernization and Cloudification leads the architecture for modernizing and migrating Sun Life's on-premises technology estate to the cloud.

The Director defines the domain strategy, future-state architecture, standards, reference architectures, and transition roadmaps. The scope includes Open Shift, virtualization, servers, operating systems, databases, storage technologies, and related infrastructure services.

Working with Technology Executives, other Enterprise Architects, engineering leaders, cybersecurity, cloud engineering, AI platform teams, and application development, the Director aligns cloud migration with enterprise priorities, regulatory obligations, operational requirements, and cost outcomes. The role also leads AI-enabled automation projects that accelerate modernization.
· Lead AI-enabled automation projects that accelerate technology discovery, estate analysis, dependency mapping, migration planning, remediation, testing, and architecture documentation.
· Define and maintain the domain architecture strategy, future-state architectures, principles, standards, reference architectures, and decision boundaries.
· Develop and maintain an integrated roadmap for migrating on-premises container, virtualization, server, operating system, database, storage, and related infrastructure technologies to cloud services.
· Maintain architecture documentation covering the existing technology estate, target cloud architectures, transition plans, dependencies, architecture decisions, lifecycle risks, technical debt, and retirement plans.
· Collaborate with Technology Executives to communicate architecture direction, options, trade-offs, dependencies, investment considerations, risks, and modernization outcomes, and align cloud migration roadmaps with enterprise and operational priorities.
· Assess the current-state technology estate to identify cloud migration opportunities, unsupported technologies, security vulnerabilities, platform fragmentation, technical debt, lifecycle exposure, resilience gaps, and operational risks.
· Define target cloud architectures, workload placement direction, transition states, migration sequencing, dependencies, and retirement plans that support…