Data Analytics Delivery Lead

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Are you ready to shine?

At Sun Life, we empower you to be your most brilliant self.

Who we are?

Sun Life is a leading financial services company with history of 150+ years that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We serve millions in Canada, the U.S., Asia, the U.K., and other parts of the world. We have a network of Sun Life advisors, third-party partners, and other distributors. Through them, we’re helping set our clients free to live their lives their way, from now through retirement. We’re working hard to support their wellness and health management goals, too. That way, they can enjoy what matters most to them. And that’s anything from running a marathon to helping their grandchildren learn to ride a bike.

To do this, we offer a broad range of protection and wealth products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions, including:

• Insurance. Life, health, wellness, disability, critical illness, stop-loss, and long-term care insurance.

• Investments. Mutual funds, segregated funds, annuities, and guaranteed investment products

• Advice. Financial planning and retirement planning services

• Asset management. Pooled funds, institutional portfolios, and pension funds

With innovative technology, a strong distribution network and long-standing relationships with some of the world’s largest employers, we are today providing financial security to millions of people globally.

Sun Life is a leading financial services company that helps our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives, with strong insurance, asset management, investments, and financial advice portfolios. At Sun Life, our asset management business draws on the talent and experience of professionals from around the globe.

Sun Life Global Solutions (SLGS)

Established in the Philippines in 1991 and in India in 2006, Sun Life Global Solutions, (formerly Asia Service Centres), a microcosm of Sun Life, is poised to harness the regions’ potential in a significant way - from India and the Philippines to the world. We are architecting and executing a BOLDER vision: being a Digital and Innovation Hub, shaping the Business, driving Transformation and superior Client experience by providing expert Technology, Business and Knowledge Services and advanced Solutions. We help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives – our core purpose and mission.

Drawing on our collaborative and inclusive culture, we are reckoned as a ‘Great Place to Work’, ‘Top 100 Best Places to Work for Women’ and stand among the ‘Top 11 Global Business Services Companies’ across India and the Philippines.

The technology function at Sun Life Global Solutions is geared towards growing our existing business, deepening our client understanding, managing new-age technology systems, and demonstrating thought leadership. We are committed to building greater domain expertise and engineering ability, delivering end to end solutions for our clients, and taking a lead in intelligent automation. Tech services at Sun Life Global Solutions have evolved in areas such as application development and management, Support, Testing, Digital, Data Engineering and Analytics, Infrastructure Services and Project Management.

We are constantly expanding our strength in Information technology and are looking for fresh talents who can bring ideas and values aligning with our Digital strategy.

Our Client Impact strategy is motivated by the need to create an inclusive culture, empowered by highly engaged people. We are entering a new world that focuses on doing purpose driven work. The kind that fills your day with excitement and determination, because when you love what you do, it never feels like work. We want to create an environment where you feel empowered to act and are surrounded by people who challenge you, support you and inspire you to become the best version of yourself. As an employer, we not only want to attract top talent, but we want you to have the best Sun Life Experience.

We strive to Shine Together, Make Life Brighter & Shape the Future!

Key responsibilities:

• Provide delivery management & leadership on the design & end to end solutions for building data & analytics applications on cloud and on premise platforms

• Ensure adherence of best practices to all solution architecture, design areas, including on-prem, AWS, or a combination. This includes areas such as Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization

• Lead team of 30+ data designers, data & DevOps engineers, both within your team and within other ES or Business units, in order to support solution development and applications

• Enable the expansion of the Data Analytics - Solutions center of excellence, through education support, publication of solution accelerators, and open discussions on data challenges and opportunities.

• Translate detailed requirements into functional specifications.

• Provide high level estimates for project proposals and solution designs.

• Integrate with project teams according to Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology for either waterfall or agile projects.

• Conduct Proof of Technologies on the new technologies on on-cloud and traditional data management, engineering, visualizations & analytics technologies to recommend the choice of technology for adoption at an enterprise level.

• Work closely with the Enterprise Data Architecture team to approve data patterns, technologies and seek architecture approvals.

• Work with the solutions design team to drive data & analytics strategy across enterprise

• Provides consultation for the evaluation of complex data and software systems.

• Strong hands-on experience in delivering data analytics solution with proven business value

• Drive DevOps (CI/CD) automation initiatives across Data analytics platform.

• Build and manage effective working relationships with other departments, groups, or personnel.

• Must be data oriented with metric-driven approach for initiatives owned, able to articulate value with impact in non-technical terms.  

• Demonstrate strong ownership and quality focus, responsive and detail orientation.

• T-shaped professional with deep expertise in data technologies across conventional as well as Cloud technologies, and broader experience in various disciplines of Data Delivery lifecycle (like Data Modeling, Governance, Master Data Management, Analytics, Visualization etc) as well as business functional knowledge (preferably in Financial service/ Insurance).

• Keen Learner and Fast to scale-up on variety of technology domains in Data technologies.

• Able to collaborate and create value brining together data expertise to solve critical business problems, be tech savvy and lead innovation in Data technologies.

• Demonstrate strong orientation and value delivery in usage, applying and deriving value through GenAI/ AI-enablement.

• Ensure information security standards and requirements are incorporated 

• Contribute to the ongoing support, stability and performance of application systems in production including problem analysis, resolution, escalation and reporting 

Key Qualifications and experience:

• Have >14-18+ years of delivery, build & design experience in core data capabilities like Technical Solutioning, Data Modelling, Planning, Estimation, Execution and Services,

• Expertise in building end-to-end data analytics architecture and ownership of implementations, preferably 8-10 yrs in a financial services company, especially insurance.

• Experience in building and scaling-up the teams, horizontally as well as vertically.

• Experience in managing People, for team with seniority spectrum ranging fresher to >18 yrs.

• 7-10+ years’ experience in development, 5 of which in the capacity of Development and/or Delivery Manager

• 5+ years’ experience acting in the capacity Senior Project roles for sizable IT projects.

• Strong experience in delivering projects in Big Data related projects using AWS data lake technologies like Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lambda and open source technologies like Python, Spark, Hive, Data Lake, Cassandra

• Good to have delivery management experience in data analytics and visualization solutions using any modern age tools like SAS, AWS Sagemaker, R Studio, Tableau

• Excellent reporting and stakeholder communications and must have managed reporting at leadership level to senior stakeholders

• Extremely strong communication, critical thinking, and analytical skills. This includes skills such as conceptual requirements interpretation, solution creation, and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent collaboration and leadership skills, a proven ability to adapt to challenges, and a strong interest in coaching and mentoring colleagues.

• Experience with productionizing services at scale and related change management.

• Experience with  project management and software development life cycle /SDLC; waterfall and agile (5+ years)

• Proven experience in leading solutions for ODS, data warehouse system integrations

• Strong experience in leading DevOps enablement and adoption programs across 2-3 projects across on premise and on cloud data technologies

• Excellent Presentation skills is a must using technical writing, Visio, PowerPoint, flowcharting (5+ years)

Primary Location: Gurugram / Bengaluru

Schedule: 12:00 PM to 8;30 PM

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