Associate

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter 

As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth — driving the company's success.

Job Requirements

• Write clean, well-tested & secure code, exhibit ownership from requirements to development
• Deeply understand existing architecture on the back end as well as the front-end side to be able to enhance and improve architecture going forward with a key focus on scalability and quality
• Apply patches/upgrades from vendors, create Monitoring/Alerting as needed
• Provide expertise and best practices for implementing cloud security (internal) and product security (external) and knowledge of one or more SSO methodologies (SAML, LDAP, MS AD)
• Sharp focus on gaining an in-depth understanding of the requirements around user experience to be able to deliver high quality, cross-platform optimized and responsive web front-end experience
• Strong focus on creating and maintaining project documents and artifacts to capture current state
• Focus on getting the required depth of functional expertise to be able to effectively suggest solutions to business problems/requirements
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work with designers, engineers, product management and business stakeholders to deliver & enhance new/existing capabilities
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies as needed and apply them to business solutions. Stay abreast of new/upcoming technologies in the market
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detail orientation with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Proactive ownership, troubleshooting & resolution of issues as they arise
• Challenge the status quo and propose newer and better ways of doing things

Required Skills

• Development experience of Atlassian systems (Jira & Confluence Cloud)
• Experience in the design, build, customization and roll out of advanced Jira workflows and schemes
• Hands on experience in installing and configuring tools - IBM Urban code udeploy and agents, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube on AWS via Terraform/ Ansible for Enterprise.
• Hands on experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines by using UNIX/Linux/Windows, Java, Dot Net, Angular, Git, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory on premises/AWS.
• Strong in writing Groovy scripts and automation, experience in developing in Python, bash, YAML, Jenkins templates.
• Proficiency with web application development using Java, REST-ful APIs creation using Spring Boot or Node
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as C#, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, React with Redux
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB
• Experience with relevant code repository and project tools such as Team Foundation Server, Git, JIRA
• Ability to integrate APIs, write unit test cases, perform Unit Testing (UT) and System Integration testing (SIT)
• Working experience with or understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment
• Understanding of existing and emerging web standards such as HTML5 and Mobile
• Demonstrated ability with Application Architecture, best practices and systems engineering industry trends
• Solid understanding of Agile application development methodologies and release management activities

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science or another related technical field but not required
• Candidates who have completed full stack development/coding bootcamps or equivalent industry recognized certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or Solutions architect) will also be considered in lieu of a technical undergraduate degree

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $60,000-$102,500 

Overtime eligible: Nonexempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Diversity Promise

We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 91217