VP, Application Integration (Toronto)

Overview

The Vice President, Application Integration, is responsible for the technical design, build, integration, and operation of application platforms supporting the Brookfield Wealth Solutions and Brookfield Credit business areas. This role leads a global engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure technology solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a global team of Application Engineers responsible for designing and building integrations between SaaS applications.
• Own technical solution architecture for application integrations, ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Deliver engineering initiatives within established timelines, quality standards, and SDLC processes.
• Design and implement application integration solutions (event‑based architectures). Ensure consistent use of data engineering frameworks and integration patterns.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives, ensuring optimized performance and scalability.
• Own L3 after‑hours production support for application and integration platforms. Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and permanent resolution of system issues.
• Ensure adherence to IT General Controls, security, and data governance standards. Partner with Architecture and Cyber teams to align with enterprise standards and tooling.
• Manage technical vendor performance: SLA adherence and integration quality.
• Partner with Business Systems Analysis team to implement approved requirements into technical solutions. Provide technical feasibility input and solution options during planning and design phases.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to senior stakeholders.

Key Deliverables

• Scalable, secure, and high‑performing application integrations.
• Solution architecture artifacts (diagrams, interface inventories).
• Reliable production systems meeting SLA/SLI targets.
• Timely resolution of incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Successful & timely delivery of engineering initiatives.
• Root Cause Analysis system improvements within agreed timelines.
• Security vulnerability remediation tasks completed within agreed timelines.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management, Data Analytics, Business Administration/Commerce, or a related field.
• 10+ years of hands‑on experience leading business systems analysts and product owners with specialization in the Asset Management or Insurance industry.
• Solid leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, engaging cross‑functional teams.
• Experience with investment management & insurance business domains, specifically application and data models across public and private asset classes.
• Experience with investment management applications such as Aladdin/ADC, Clearwater/LPX, WSO and Numerix (or other similar platforms).
• Proven expertise in ETL/ELT, data integration concepts with exposure to REST API, SQL, XML, JSON, CSV.
• Experience using ServiceNow (or similar platform) to create service requests, incident reports and action task queue.
• Experience leading teams to manage cyber vulnerability remediation through Armis (or similar platform).
• Practical experience applying modern data frameworks (e.g., Medallion Architecture) to ensure structured and efficient integrations.
• Strong analytical skills, including conceptual, requirements interpretation, solution creation and problem‑solving abilities.
• Experience implementing CI/CD for applications in alignment with SDLC using tools like Azure DevOps.
• Experience working as a product manager for a set of applications.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance requirements for data protection.

Skills & Qualifications

• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance requirements.
• Experience delivering both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Experience leveraging AI tools for delivering business value.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with actuarial applications: FinX, Moody’s Axis, Milliman MG Alfa, and AON Pathwise.
• Experience with investment management applications: SS&C; PLM, Mercatus, Tri Optima, Bloomberg AIM, and Duco.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, SQL Server, Azure DevOps, Jira, Informatica and Qualytics.
• Experience delivering under both Waterfall & Agile methodologies.
• Experience leveraging AI tools for delivering business value.