Lead Technology Platform Owner, Platforms

At Equitable Life of Canada, we believe work should be a place where you feel supported, inspired, and empowered to grow.

Job Description

The Lead Technology Platform Owner will own and steward our Individual Insurance Digital technology platforms. They will lead and collaborate with multiple business and IT teams and leaders to execute tactical and strategic initiatives to support business products or value streams and its owned technology platform.

This is a hybrid role that requires working in our office in Waterloo, ON a minimum of two assigned days every other week, plus a fifth assigned day per month.

The successful candidate will have over 10 years of hands-on enterprise class software solution design, development, and support experience, with 5+ years in a team leadership/management role in solutions design and development.

They will possess a post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in computer science, computer systems engineering, software engineering, and exceptional organizational skills.

• Specializing in understanding business usage of information technology and helping technology add value to the business via overseeing and evaluating of technology and processes.
• Set technical platform vision and implementation roadmap for owned assets to support and enhance business outcomes.
• Advance the technical health and performance of owned assets and platform.
• Manage total cost of operation and ownership of the product platform and identify opportunities for improvement.

The ideal candidate will also have excellent knowledge of code management, build, and release, and quality practices, and the ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements and to mentor others to do the same.