Director Technical Solutions

Permanent Full Time 

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As Director, Technical Solutions, you are accountable for leading digital engineering squads to build and improve digital solutions, capabilities and customer experiences in alignment with Canada Life digital and technology roadmaps. You work closely with business, design, architecture and engineering teams across the organization to ensure the solutions meet functional requirements and non-functional, engineering and compliance specifications.

You maintain a high degree of technical and business acumen for your products and provide thought leadership that contributes to evolution of the Canada Life roadmaps and the architecture and overall lifecycle of digital solutions. 

What you’ll bring 

• Technical direction and oversight for creation of solutions and delivery of products within your portfolio, optimized through deliberate choices aligned with Canada Life digital and technology roadmaps, including the principles of ‘One Canada Life’ user experience & digital ecosystem, re-use, and technology risk
• Drive best practices and ways of working for application development, integration, code management, deployment and solutions documentation and ensure adoption and adherence by engineering teams
• Collaborate to advance core platforms, optimize full stack integration, drive automation and engineering improvements that will accelerate delivery, increase quality and reduce maintenance and change fail rates
• Drive a high-performance culture for staff and promote culture changes within the organization
• Build strong and trusted relationships with internal and external partners
• Focus on continuous learning and professional development
• Drive an agile mindset within the team centred on progress and advancing the digital mandates
• Ensure effective and efficient use of financial and people resources 
• Identify and invest in opportunities (processes, training, systems) to enhance individual and team effectiveness 

Who you are  

• Post-secondary degree/diploma in computer science or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• 6+ years' experience in engineering/technology leadership position leading multiple teams with many competing priorities
• Proven experience delivering applications, integration or engineering solutions following an SDLC
• Experience in Salesforce Experience Cloud and / or Adobe Experience Cloud and / or a similar SaaS / PaaS cloud environment
• Solid understanding of the following is an asset:
  • Salesforce Industries, Visualforce and Lightning Web Components
  • Application integrations and an understanding of API architecture and design
  • Adobe Experience Manager
  • CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Jenkins and BitBucket
  • ITSI and ITSM applications for monitoring and reporting
• Drive results and change processes to improve performance; create a culture of accountability
• Have a bias to action
• Ability to use knowledge of industry, business and systems to solve business problems
• Solid understanding of delivery enablement techniques such as automated testing and automated deployments
• Strong understanding of industry best practices
• Proven ability to develop and maintain collaborative business relationships
• Able to pivot and quickly change direction in response to changing priorities
• Experience coaching and mentoring technical practitioners
• Strong communication, collaboration and relationship building skills
• Experience working in financial services industry an asset

What will set you apart:

• You lead or have led the development of Salesforce Industries and / or Adobe Experience Manager solutions with a focus on shared, re-usable components and or API services
• Your leadership experience includes leading teams through change
• You demonstrate approachability, innovation and thought leadership
• Ability to flex between and be comfortable with influencing, advising, and collaboration
• You inspire a vision that adapts to new realities, articulating meaningful expectations and creating clear pathways to desired outcomes
• You assess issues and provide strategic direction; devise tactical solutions to iteratively advance strategies

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The base salary for this position is between  $92,100- $170,500 annually.  This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc).  If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Be your best at Canada Life- Apply today!

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.

Canada Life serves?the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.?

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee?has the opportunity to?reach their potential.?

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Canada Life policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com.

Canada Life?would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.

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