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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.\nAt 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.\nWhen 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.\nDiscover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.\nJob Description:\nRole Summary\nYou will represent the Security Architecture team across our enterprise architecture and technology community, shaping how security is designed into everything we build including the AI systems now reaching production.\nThis is a senior, influence-led role. You will prioritise the strategic concepts and capability sets that matter most, align security to the architecture process and the NIST framework, and advance technology modernisation and defense-in-depth across multiple clouds and on Prem.\nYou will set direction for a substantial security technology stack including: cloud security posture and workload protection, endpoint detection and response, SIEM, secrets and privileged access management, data protection, application security and perimeter defense and make strategic decisions on the future of the technology stack\nWhat will you do?\nPartner with global domain architects to review enterprise architecture patterns and guardrails, ensuring security is designed in rather than retrofitted.\nEvaluate and recommend emerging technologies, providing technical and thought leadership through proofs of concept and business cases that demonstrate value.\nRepresent security technology and capability strategy at senior executive forums and enterprise technology review boards.\nProvide architecture and design expertise on enterprise projects and security initiatives, including cross-domain functions, and certify domains in line with architecture governance.\nLead the strategic evolution of security capabilities with a zero-trust-first approach, working alongside delivery teams.\nDefine the security architecture for AI adoption covering AI and agentic systems, the data that feeds them, and the platforms that host them. This includes model and agent governance, AI security posture management, data-classification controls for training and inference, guardrails against prompt injection and model misuse, and secure-by-design patterns for AI-enabled products.\nSet a modernised approach to security tooling, services and capability sets, focused on technical feasibility across emerging technologies, controls and functions.\nDrive multi-cloud consistency, ensuring controls, telemetry and posture management extend uniformly across all cloud providers rather than clustering around the best-covered one.\nWhat will you need to succeed?\nExperience\nMinimum 7-10 years in information security architecture, engineering and design.\nProven ability to navigate complex organisations across the security, network, infrastructure and global architecture stack.\nProven experience migrating and upgrading core security technologies as part of an evolving security and infrastructure stack, including API security, web filtering, cloud security, email security and endpoint security.\nExperience managing third-party security service providers in delivering security services.\nTechnical depth\nStrong knowledge of core security domains: endpoint, cloud, infrastructure, perimeter and data protection.\nMulti-cloud security architecture across at least two major providers, with an appreciation of how native controls and third-party platforms differ in coverage.\nWorking knowledge of the modern security toolset CNAPP/CSPM, EDR/XDR, SIEM, secrets management, privileged access management, SSE/CASB, WAF and perimeter protection, database activity monitoring, and SAST/SCA/DAST in the pipeline.\nAI security: familiarity with AI and LLM threat models (such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications), AI governance frameworks (such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework), AI security posture management, model and agent identity, and the data-security implications of AI adoption.\nPragmatic understanding of security problems as a mix of technology and process, with the ability to pursue solutions at multiple levels throughout the organisation.\nLeadership and communication\nExpert presentation and communication skills, written and verbal.\nPeople leadership experience preferred, including the ability to engage, mentor, coach and develop.\nExtensive knowledge of information security principles, best practices and industry standards.\nSelf-starter, strategic thinker, negotiator and consensus builder.\nEducation\nUniversity degree/college diploma in related discipline(s) or equivalent co-op work experience,\nProfessional designation in IT security (such as CISM, CISSP, CISA) preferred\nWhat's in it for you?\nA competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale\nA flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.\nTime off that allows you to focus on the moments that matter most. 20 vacation days per year.\nOur Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.\nA warm, supportive, and inclusive culture.\nThe Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.\nDiversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.\nPersons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to .\nWe are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.\nWe may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.\nWe thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. 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