Technical Product Owner, Enterprise Architecture
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About the Role
Sun Life seeks a Technical Product Owner for Enterprise Architecture to shape and deliver the product roadmap for EA platforms, data capabilities, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
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Responsibilities
- Define and communicate the technical product vision for Enterprise Architecture platforms, data products, automation capabilities, and AI enabled EA solutions
- Own and manage the product roadmap and backlog, ensuring priorities align with EA strategy, technology modernization, governance needs, and enterprise value
- Translate stakeholder needs into product features, technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success outcomes
- Partner with Enterprise Architects, platform teams, data and integration teams, security, governance, vendors, and delivery partners to shape scalable solutions
- Drive improvements to architecture repositories, application and technology portfolio data, dashboards, reporting, workflows, integrations, and automation
- Support AI ready architecture data by improving data quality, metadata standards, lineage, integration patterns, and trusted data flows across EA systems
- Assess and manage technical risks, dependencies, platform health, technical debt, operational impacts, and opportunities for simplification
- Facilitate product discovery, backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, demos, roadmap reviews, and stakeholder feedback sessions
- Define and monitor product success measures, including adoption, data quality, stakeholder satisfaction, delivery throughput, platform reliability, and reduction of manual effort
- Communicate roadmap trade offs and delivery progress clearly, ensuring stakeholders understand priorities, decisions, and expected outcomes
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience in technology, business, architecture, product management, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline
- Experience in technical product ownership, product management, business analysis, enterprise architecture, platform management, or technology delivery
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment, including backlog management, user story creation, prioritization, sprint planning, demos, and release planning
- Strong ability to translate complex business, architecture, data, and technical needs into clear product requirements and delivery priorities
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess alternatives, risks, dependencies, benefits, and implementation trade offs
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Client focused mindset with a passion for improving user experience, reducing manual effort, and delivering measurable outcomes
- Experience with Enterprise Architecture, architecture governance, technology portfolio management, application portfolio management, or architecture repository platforms
- Experience with tools such as Ardoq, ServiceNow, LeanIX, MEGA, Bizzdesign, or similar
- Understanding of architecture data models, metadata, data quality, integrations, reporting, dashboards, workflow automation, and AI ready data practices
- Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec
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Job Description
- The Technical Product Owner, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for shaping and delivering the product roadmap for Enterprise Architecture platforms, architecture data capabilities, automation services, and AI enabled EA solutions.
- This role helps evolve the EA Office toward a product oriented operating model focused on trusted architecture data, integrated platforms, simplified stakeholder experiences, and measurable enterprise outcomes.
- The role partners across architecture, technology, data, security, governance, and delivery teams to translate stakeholder needs into practical product increments that improve decision making and execution.
What will you do?
- Define and communicate the technical product vision for Enterprise Architecture platforms, data products, automation capabilities, and AI enabled EA solutions.
- Own and manage the product roadmap and backlog, ensuring priorities align with EA strategy, technology modernization, governance needs, and enterprise value.
- Translate stakeholder needs into product features, technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success outcomes.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects, platform teams, data and integration teams, security, governance, vendors, and delivery partners to shape scalable solutions.
- Drive improvements to architecture repositories, application and technology portfolio data, dashboards, reporting, workflows, integrations, and automation.
- Support AI ready architecture data by improving data quality, metadata standards, lineage, integration patterns, and trusted data flows across EA systems.
- Assess and manage technical risks, dependencies, platform health, technical debt, operational impacts, and opportunities for simplification.
- Facilitate product discovery, backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, demos, roadmap reviews, and stakeholder feedback sessions.
- Define and monitor product success measures, including adoption, data quality, stakeholder satisfaction, delivery throughput, platform reliability, and reduction of manual effort.
- Communicate roadmap trade offs and delivery progress clearly, ensuring stakeholders understand priorities, decisions, and expected outcomes.
What do you need to succeed?
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience in technology, business, architecture, product management, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline.
- Experience in technical product ownership, product management, business analysis, enterprise architecture, platform management, or technology delivery.
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment, including backlog management, user story creation, prioritization, sprint planning, demos, and release planning.
- Strong ability to translate complex business, architecture, data, and technical needs into clear product requirements and delivery priorities.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess alternatives, risks, dependencies, benefits, and implementation trade offs.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non technical audiences.
- Client focused mindset with a passion for improving user experience, reducing manual effort, and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Experience with Enterprise Architecture, architecture governance, technology portfolio management, application portfolio management, or architecture repository platforms.
- Experience with tools such as Ardoq, ServiceNow, LeanIX, MEGA, Bizzdesign, or similar architecture and portfolio management platforms.
- Understanding of architecture data models, metadata, data quality, integrations, reporting, dashboards, workflow automation, and AI ready data practices.
- Familiarity with AI enabled solutions, agentic AI concepts, APIs, analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, or technology modernization.
- CSPO, SAFe POPM, Agile, Scrum, Product Management, or equivalent certification would be an asset.
What's in it for you?
- The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
- Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family.
- We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment.
- We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2025 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada.
- We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®.
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