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AVP, Technology Resilience and Recover Risk Oversight

Job in Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listing for: Sun Life Financial
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-31
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Disaster Recovery IT, Business Continuity, Cybersecurity
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Vous êtes aussi unique que votre parcours, votre expérience et votre point de vue. Ici, vous serez encouragé, habilité et défié à être à votre meilleur. Vous travaillerez avec des collègues dynamiques – des experts dans leurs domaines – qui sont désireux de partager leurs connaissances avec vous. Vos leaders vous inspireront et vous aideront à atteindre votre potentiel et à vous envoler vers de nouveaux horizons.

Chaque jour, vous aurez de nouvelles et passionnantes occasions de rendre la vie plus brillante pour nos Clients – qui sont au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons.

Chez Sun Life, nous sommes guidés par notre Raison d'être : aider nos Clients à réaliser la sécurité financière à vie et à vivre une vie plus saine. Nos valeurs façonnent notre façon de travailler : bienveillance, authenticité, audace, inspiration et impact.

Quand vous vous joignez à Sun Life, vous travaillez avec des collègues passionnés et des leaders habilitants qui soutiennent votre croissance et célèbrent vos contributions, afin que vous puissiez faire une différence significative dans la vie de nos Clients.

Découvrez comment vous pouvez faire une différence dans la vie des personnes, des familles et des communautés du monde entier.

Description de poste:

The AVP, Technology Resilience & Recovery is a senior 2

LOD leadership role accountable for establishing and leading Sun Life’s independent technology resilience challenge capability across critical operations. The role provides enterprise oversight of technology recoverability, DR strategy, backup and data resilience, infrastructure and application recovery, cloud/hybrid resilience, and alignment between business impact tolerances, RTO/RPO expectations, and actual technical recovery capability.

What will you do?

Enterprise Technology Resilience Leadership Establish and lead the enterprise 2

LOD technology resilience capability within the ORCT Centre of Excellence, including operating model, standards, review cadence, escalation protocols, and evidence expectations.

Provide independent oversight and challenge of DBTS and Business Group technology recovery capabilities supporting critical and significant operations.

Set the 2

LOD expectations for recoverability evidence, scenario testing credibility, DR adequacy, backup resilience, cyber recovery readiness, and technology resilience reporting.

Independent Challenge & Risk Governance Chair or lead senior governance discussions on technology resilience posture, material gaps, issue escalation, risk acceptance, remediation adequacy, and closure readiness.

Challenge overly optimistic recovery claims where evidence does not demonstrate capability to operate within impact tolerances or RTO/RPO expectations.

Ensure technology resilience gaps are formally captured, risk-rated, assigned owners, and tracked through remediation and closure validation.

Regulatory Alignment & Enterprise Reporting Ensure technology resilience oversight aligns with OSFI E-21 operational resilience expectations and OSFI B-13 technology and cyber risk management expectations.

Develop enterprise insights on technology resilience posture, including risk appetite metrics, KRIs, thematic findings, systemic vulnerabilities, and management/Board-ready reporting.

Support regulatory responses, supervisory engagement, audit inquiries, and evidence readiness related to technology resilience and recoverability.

People Leadership & Capability Build Build and lead a specialized 2

LOD team across Technology Resilience, DR Strategy & Adequacy, Backup Storage & Data Resilience, and related recovery domains.

Develop technical challenge standards, review playbooks, reviewer training, and quality assurance routines to increase consistency and coverage across critical operations.

Partner with Operational Resilience, BCM, Crisis Management, TPRM, DBTS, Cyber, and Business Group Risk teams to deliver integrated resilience outcomes.

What do you need to succeed?

Deep knowledge of technology resilience, disaster recovery, infrastructure/application recovery, cloud/hybrid environments, data resilience, cyber recovery, and enterprise risk oversight.

Strong understanding of OSFI E-21, OSFI B-13,…
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