AVP Corporate Functions Technology

Permanent Full Time

The AVP, Corporate Functions Technology is accountable for leading the delivery and enablement of business and technology outcomes, aligned to strategy, journeys and processes. You will be responsible for evolving the roadmap, leading technology delivery, driving organizational maturity, leading modernization and integration of enterprise automation capabilities with core business capabilities.

In this role you will direct and provide leadership for the strategies, architecture, design, development, maintenance, and implementation of technology and processes to enable new ways of working. You will be responsible to reflect an experiential mindset, drive velocity, consistency and transformation adoption cross‑functionally with measurable progress against the Canada Life and Lifeco overall strategies.

You will lead a high performing team, fostering engagement, continuous development, and effective succession planning. Success in this role requires exceptional relationship management, deep technology expertise, and the ability to collaborate and influence across a complex, matrixed enterprise environment. With a strong focus on customer experience, technological modernization, and disciplined execution, the AVP will help shape the future of technology within Corporate Functions.

What you will do:

Oversee technology product, data and cloud roadmaps, including architecture, development and implementation

Drive an agile mindset within the technology stack that measures progress over perfection

Work with Business and IT stakeholders to ensure Product roadmaps are accurate and achievable

Develop and maintain senior level relationships within stakeholders, application development teams, external vendors and industry forums for the purpose of influencing product and technology directions, promoting effective collaboration and leading change management efforts

Hold yourself and your team accountable to contribute to the overall digital modernization of the organization

Ensure solutions are enhanced, secured, and upgraded to evolve the roadmap

Ensure effective and efficient use of financial and people resources

Implement and maintain best practice standards and guidelines with custom and out‑of‑the‑box software development, integration, and deployment of solutions

Oversee the establishment of a framework with other related teams for integrating into new stack

Ensure standards are in place for integration of third‑party applications into new stack

Ensure security standards are in place for current and future development

Drive productivity improvements in areas such as process, procedures, tools, and practices

Work with Vendor Relations on vendor procurement, contract negotiation and vendor onboarding for delivery of business capabilities and solutions

Management of integrators/partners and technology services

Drive a high‑performance culture for staff and promote culture changes within the organization.

Set clear goals and ensure clarity of accountability

Ensure leaders, staff and vendors work together to drive performance and deliver to high expectations

Identify and invest in opportunities (processes, training, systems) to enhance individual and team effectiveness

What you will bring:

Ability to flex between and be comfortable with influencing, advising, and collaboration

Inspires a vision that adapts to new realities, articulating meaningful expectations and creating clear pathways to desired outcomes

Ability to provide insight into the relationship between technology and business strategy

Ability to use knowledge of industry, business and systems to solve business problems

Strong understanding of business unit people, products and processes

Strong communication and relationship building skills

Using credibility and trusted advice, fosters collaboration

Promotes innovation with customer centric outward thinking

Ability to deal with ambiguity and flexibility of approach

Drives results and changes processes to improve performance; creates a culture of accountability

Has a bias to action

Technology and systems expertise

Attracts, motivates, and develops talent to build the right team

Ability to manage and challenge…