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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:\nOperating at the intersection of MarTech, software engineering, data platforms, and digital experience delivery, you'll help drive Sun Life's transition to a modern, composable, warehouse-native architecture powered by Snowflake, cloud-native technologies, and event-driven platforms.\nIf you're passionate about building scalable solutions that impact millions of customers while influencing enterprise technology strategy, we'd love to hear from you.\nWhat You'll Do?\nLead MarTech & Customer Engagement Engineering\nDefine and execute the technical strategy for Sun Life's 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platforms.\nFoster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.\nWhat You'll Bring?\nMarTech Expertise\nDeep experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale MarTech solutions.\nStrong knowledge of: Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) Journey orchestration Marketing automation Personalization and decisioning Customer identity and consent management Omnichannel activation\nExperience with platforms such as:\nAdobe Experience Platform (AEP) / Adobe Target\nHightouch\nSalesforce Data Cloud\nBraze\nWe value your ability to architect, integrate, and scale customer engagement solutions more than expertise in any one platform.\nData & Platform Engineering\nHands-on experience with Snowflake or modern cloud data platforms.\nExpertise in warehouse-native activation and composable architecture patterns.\nStrong understanding of customer data models, APIs, integrations, and event-driven architectures.\nFamiliarity with Kafka, streaming technologies, and modern data 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You'll combine technical leadership, modern MarTech, cloud data platforms, digital experiences, and enterprise architecture to create meaningful impact for millions of clients.\nReady to help shape the next generation of customer engagement at Sun Life? Apply today.\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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