SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors. We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.
We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset. As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference. We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.
Visit our website to learn more and for the most up to date AUM information.
SLC Management offers a mix of in-office and virtual work where our employees are empowered to do their best. Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on their business, client and team needs.
Job Description:
As the Senior Director, Data & AI Engineering Platforms to lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our modern data, AI, and engineering enablement ecosystem. This role will drive the evolution of enterprise platforms built on Snowflake, Informatica, and AWS - enabling scalable data products, intelligent automation, and trusted insights across the firm. This is a leadership role for a technology influencer who brings deep engineering expertise, a strong product mindset, and the ability to elevate a broad technical community. You will lead platform modernization, strengthen engineering excellence, and empower teams to build high-performing, secure, and well-governed solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:
Opportunity to shape SLC Management’s enterprise data, analytics, and AI strategy and platform roadmap.
High visibility role with significant impact across investment, distribution, and partner functions.
A performance-driven, inclusive culture grounded in core values: client obsessed, value each other, act with speed, and an owner’s mindset.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
1) Strategy, Product & Stakeholder Leadership
Define and communicate a compelling multi-year vision for data, integration, AI engineering, and platform capabilities aligned to firm objectives.
Own the platform roadmap (prioritization, resourcing/squads, budget, dependency management, and measurable outcomes).
Partner with Architecture, Security, Risk, and Business leaders to align priorities, ensure adoption, and drive change management across the organization.
Champion modern delivery methodologies (agile, data products, data mesh) to increase speed-to-value and business impact.
2) Data Engineering Platforms (Pipelines, Data Lakes & Snowflake Warehouse)
Provide executive and hands-on technical leadership for scalable data pipelines supporting batch, micro-batch, and streaming workloads.
Lead enterprise data lake architectures for structured and unstructured data ingestion, curation, metadata, and lifecycle management.
Oversee Snowflake data warehouse environments including data modeling, performance tuning, workload management, security controls, and cost governance.
Establish standards for data reliability: automated data quality rules, lineage, observability, and operational SLAs/SLIs.
Drive the creation of reusable, governed data assets and data products to accelerate analytics and AI use cases.
3) Integration & Data Enablement
Lead modernization of the Informatica IICS/IDMC ecosystem—including ingestion patterns, ETL/ELT designs, API-led integration, and automation.
Strengthen enterprise Data Quality practices (profiling, rules, exception workflows) and integrate DQ into CI/CD and operational monitoring.
Improve metadata automation, lineage capture, and governance integration across Informatica and Snowflake.
4) AI Engineering & Responsible AI
Lead engineering direction for AI solutions, including LLM-based capabilities, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and evaluation frameworks.
Establish production-grade AI engineering patterns (prompt management, guardrails, model monitoring, and human-in-the-loop workflows).
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to implement Responsible AI controls and governance that enable innovation while managing risk.
5) Infrastructure Management & Operational Excellence (AWS, Reliability, Security)
Provide leadership for cloud infrastructure and platform operations supporting data and AI services on AWS (networking, compute, storage, security, IAM).
Establish and mature SRE/operations practices: incident management, problem management, runbooks, on-call readiness, and post-incident learning.
Own platform resilience and continuity planning, including backup, disaster recovery, failover testing, and capacity management.
Implement robust observability across pipelines and platforms (logging, metrics, traces) to ensure availability, performance, and cost transparency.
Ensure platforms meet enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements through strong control design and continuous compliance.
6) Developer Experience & Engineering Culture (Developer Advocacy)
Champion developer productivity by standardizing CI/CD, environment automation, code quality practices, and reusable templates/accelerators.
Lead Communities of Practice, internal technical forums, and architecture reviews—raising the technical bar and sharing best practices.
Create reference implementations and “golden paths” for Snowflake, Informatica, data pipelines, and AI engineering.
7) People & Organizational Leadership
Lead and grow a high-performing organization of managers, architects, and senior engineers across data, platform, and AI domains.
Build strong technical career pathways and mentor emerging leaders; maintain high engagement and an inclusive environment.
Set clear goals, establish accountability, and drive a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and execution excellence.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:
10+ years of progressive technology leadership, including leadership of large teams and multi-year transformation programs.
Deep expertise designing and operating scalable data pipelines, enterprise data lakes, and cloud data warehouse solutions.
Strong hands-on and leadership experience with Snowflake (architecture, optimization, governance, security, and cost management).
Strong expertise with Informatica IICS/IDMC (ETL/ELT, Data Quality, ingestion frameworks, API-based integration).
AWS cloud platform experience, including operational excellence, security controls, and reliability engineering practices.
Understanding of AI engineering patterns (LLM integration, RAG, vector search, evaluation, and MLOps) and Responsible AI principles.
Proven ability to translate complex technical topics into executive-ready communication and drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
Why SLC Management?
SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees. Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.
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Salary Range
125,000/125 000 - 195,000/195 000We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive. We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.