Director, Platform Delivery

Sun Life Financial, Inc.

$125K — $195K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading technology or platform delivery teams.
  • Demonstrated success in improving delivery performance in complex organizations.
  • Proven ability to ensure teams possess necessary skills and structures.
  • Experience in agile or product-oriented operating models.
  • Strong track record in building high-performing teams and leadership capability.
  • Expertise in workforce planning and organizational capability building.
  • Experience in leading teams through transformational changes.

Responsibilities

  • Be accountable for the overall delivery performance and sustainability of assigned teams.
  • Ensure teams translate priorities into high-quality outcomes with proper structures.
  • Partner with Agile Delivery Leads to enhance planning and delivery effectiveness.
  • Identify capability gaps and improvement opportunities using team performance insights.
  • Build collaborative and effective teams with clear expectations for roles and outcomes.
  • Lead and develop Senior Analysts and other delivery professionals through coaching and feedback.
  • Manage workforce planning, recruitment, and talent development strategies.

Benefits

  • Flexible group insurance program starting on your first day.
  • 20 vacation days per year for personal time.
  • Opportunity to invest in the organization through a Share Ownership Program with employer matching.
  • Recognition as one of Canada's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work in 2026.
  • Supportive workplace culture that fosters growth and achievement.
Full Job Description
Job Description:
Director, Platform Delivery

The Director, Platform Delivery is accountable for the delivery performance, capability, effectiveness and long-term sustainability of HR technology teams responsible for building, enhancing and evolving HR technology solutions. The role ensures teams have the capacity, talent, skills, leadership, structure and ways of working required to translate priorities and technical direction into high-quality business outcomes for employees, managers and HR partners. Working through a shared leadership model, the Director partners across Product Management, Technology Enablement and Strategy, Agile Delivery Leadership and HR Technology Operations to strengthen delivery effectiveness, develop people, build organizational capability and ensure assigned teams can successfully deliver agreed business outcomes.

What will you do?
  • Be accountable for the overall delivery performance, capability, effectiveness and sustainability of assigned teams.
  • Ensure teams consistently translate agreed priorities and technical direction into high-quality delivered outcomes with the appropriate capacity, skills, leadership and team structures in place.
  • Partner with Agile Delivery Leads to strengthen flow, planning, predictability, agile maturity and delivery effectiveness.
  • Use delivery evidence, team insights and performance trends to identify constraints, capability gaps and opportunities for improvement.
  • Build resilient, collaborative and effective teams with clear expectations for roles, decision making, collaboration, accountability and outcomes.
  • Lead, coach and develop Senior Analysts, Analysts and other delivery professionals; provide ongoing coaching, candid feedback, performance leadership, development planning and career guidance.
  • Lead workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, performance and talent development; identify capability or capacity gaps and create practical plans to address them.
  • Help individuals and teams adopt new technologies, roles, ways of working and organizational models while maintaining focus on delivery outcomes.
  • Partner across Product Management, Agile Delivery, Technical Strategy and Enablement, and HR Technology Operations to ensure the right people, capabilities, leadership and team structures are in place to achieve agreed outcomes.

What you'll need to succeed?
  • Significant experience leading technology, digital, platform or enterprise solution delivery teams.
  • Demonstrated success improving delivery performance, team effectiveness and business outcomes in a complex organization.
  • Experience ensuring teams have the capacity, skills, structures and leadership needed to meet commitments and adapt to changing priorities.
  • Experience working within agile or product-oriented operating models and partnering effectively across Product, Technology, Delivery and Operations leadership.
  • Demonstrated success building healthy, high-performing teams and strengthening leadership capability.
  • Strong experience leading and developing people, providing feedback and supporting meaningful career growth.
  • Experience leading workforce planning, talent development, succession, recruitment and organizational capability building.
  • Experience leading teams through transformation, organizational change and new ways of working.
  • Experience using evidence and performance insights to identify delivery constraints and guide improvement.
  • Experience with enterprise HR technology or comparable business platforms is an asset.
  • Knowledge and capabilities in technology and platform delivery leadership; delivery performance, capacity and capability management; agile and product-oriented ways of working; high-performing team leadership; people leadership, coaching and performance enablement; workforce, talent and succession planning; organizational design and capability building; change leadership and adaptability; stakeholder partnership and influence; systems thinking, evidence-based improvement and continuous learning.

What's in it for you?
  • A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale
  • A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.
  • Time off that allows you to focus on the moments that matter most. 20 vacation days per year.
  • Our Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.
  • We are proud to be included in Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Canada's Best Workplaces.
  • Working together, sharing common values, and encouraging growth & achievement.


The 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.

We 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.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

Salary Range:
125,000/125 000 - 195,000/195 000

Job Category:
Human Resources

Posting End Date:
15/09/2026

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