Senior Technical Lead

The Canada Life Assurance Company • Toronto, ON

8d • CA$95,000 - CA$145,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Technical Delivery Lead is accountable for end-to-end delivery, stability, and evolution of critical digital platforms supporting Canada Life’s Insurance and Wealth businesses. This role goes beyond traditional development leadership—owning platform health, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance while driving modernization, scalability, and customer experience improvements. The Lead partners across Technology, Product, Architecture, Risk, and Operations to ensure delivery of secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions aligned to enterprise strategy. Success is measured by: Consistent delivery of business outcomes and customer value, Strong platform reliability and incident reduction, Compliance with audit, security, and regulatory standards, Development of high-performing, accountable teams.

Requirements

• Strong experience with modern technologies: Frontend: React / Vue, Backend: Java (Spring Boot), API development, Data: MongoDB / cloud-native data platforms
• 6–9+ years delivering and operating enterprise-scale platforms in complex environments
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end delivery with accountability for outcomes
• Strong experience in Agile and DevOps practices, including continuous delivery and support models
• Demonstrated experience managing: Production incidents and problem management, Audit and compliance requirements (e.g., change management, access controls), Platform health metrics and service reliability
• Ability to establish and enforce clear governance and control frameworks
• Ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic decision-making
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities
• Experience driving modernization and operational transformation initiatives
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to: Translate complex technical issues for executive audiences, Provide clear, concise, and fact-based updates
• Strong influencing skills across technology, business, and leadership stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Salesforce and integration patterns is an asset
• Experience with (Auth0/SSO), API ecosystems, and zero-trust digital platforms is highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery and support of applications, including build, release, operate, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure platforms meet availability, performance, resilience, and scalability targets.
• Lead delivery of strategic initiatives (e.g., digital experience, CIAM integration, platform modernization).
• Drive alignment between business priorities and technology execution, ensuring measurable outcomes.
• Accountable for production stability, including incident management, root cause analysis, and trend reduction.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise change management (ServiceNow), audit controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain clear ownership, accountability, and control effectiveness across applications.
• Drive continuous improvement in reliability, observability, and support models.
• Partner with Architecture to define and implement modern, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Promote API-first, event-driven, and modular architectures, aligned to enterprise standards.
• Ensure solutions are built with reusability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Evaluate and adopt technologies that accelerate time-to-market and platform resiliency.
• Act as a trusted partner to Product Owners, Business Leaders, and Senior Technology Leadership.
• Provide clear, concise executive-level updates on delivery, risks, incidents, and platform health.
• Influence strategic decisions through fact-based insights and technology expertise.
• Align cross-team dependencies across complex, federated platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team, fostering accountability and continuous learning.
• Drive a culture of ownership, quality, and operational discipline.
• Support workforce planning including hiring, onboarding, and resource optimization (onshore/offshore).
• Build strong collaboration across distributed and cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
• Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being.
• In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.
• Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program and additional investment options.
• Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts and more!
• A workplace where employees feel connected and supported through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs, social clubs and events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed