Director, Engineering Lead, In-House Accelerator

Job Description

About the Role

Are you a software engineering leader with a technology innovator, or a founder-level engineer in a start-up? Do you have extensive 0 to 1 product or platform experience?

We are building a startup-style innovation team within Sun Life to rapidly design, build, and scale transformative digital products—including an agentic AI platform and new client experience solutions. 

As Engineering Lead, In-House Accelerator, you will be the first engineering hire and technical counterpart to the AVP, Digital & Innovation Lead. In the early phase, this role is intentionally hands-on and execution-heavy: you will write production code, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and ship working software quickly in a regulated environment.

Over time, as the accelerator proves value and grows, you will build and mentor the engineering team—hiring strong builders, setting technical standards, and shaping an engineering culture rooted...