Corporate Vice President - Full Stack Engineer Lead with AI experience

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter 

Our New York Life culture has laid the foundation for over 180 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. Here you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring organization with a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities.  You will be part of an inclusive team guided by our belief to always be there for each other–providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others.

You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly. 

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.

Role Overview:

The Full Stack Engineering Lead will report to our DevSecOps Center for Enablement (C4E) working on emerging technologies that deliver a high degree of business value (AI based solutions, advanced automation, advanced data processing, management). As part of a diverse technical team, you will gain deep knowledge of our various business domains to understand the problems/opportunities, overall experience considerations, and business outcomes to develop innovative solutions aligning to enterprise standards, patterns and best practices while redefining boundaries to advance our leadership position.

What You’ll Do:

Architect, Design and implement full stack solutions using modern frameworks
Leads the design of the end-to-end solution for developer experience portal  
Develop strategies for AI solutions and related tools/technologies
Implement solutions to eliminate developer onboarding latency with innovative approaches.
Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, Platform engineers, security, business leaders and others to translate organizational needs into AI-driven solutions.
Inculcate co-creation with broader developer community for key strategic solutions
Understands and designs Agentic AI solutions as per the use cases
Address ethical, legal and security risks in AI systems.
Continually research and be abreast with emerging technologies and Gen AI models, Model Context Protocols, Agentic AI, and others. Incorporate strategic elements in future designs
Takes calculated solution risks to create innovative solutions that drive exceptional experiences and operational capabilities in an accelerated manner.
Leads a team of engineers to implement robust, scalable and secured solutions
Works with delivery teams to resolve technical impediments and other delivery challenges balancing speed to market and incurring of technical debt.
Runs pilots with nascent, emerging, and proven technologies to create innovative solutions, services, reusable assets and integrates the best of these into steady-state operations for the organization.
Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture (Enterprise Assurance), as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value.
Ability to continually adapt and improve in solution design and implementation, and ways of working.
Provides leadership and direction in meeting and exceeding Technology goals.
Builds strong relationships across Technology Enablement teams (security, cloud, data) and business teams.
Effectively communicates across various audiences to ensure solution alignment; appropriate level of debate and challenge to drive best fit.

What You’ll Bring:

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or combined job experience and certifications in lieu of college degrees are also acceptable.

Eight or more years of full stack architecture experience including AI/GenAI

Solid Experience with architecture, engineering and governance

Experience with UI/UX design

Experience with AI frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.)

Proven expertise in front-end technologies (ReactJS, Angular, JavaScript etc.) and back-end technologies (Java, Spring boot, Node.js, C# etc.)

Experience with Python, R, Java, Langchain

Experience with Vector Databases, Knowledge graph

Experience with Agile development methodologies, DevSecOps and CI/CD

Good knowledge of Infrastructure as code e.g., Terraform.

Experience in Cloud computing, preferably with AWS

In-dept understanding of architectural patterns, principles, and frameworks.

Strong technical background in key technology stacks; application platforms, infrastructure, database storage and streaming, APIs and Microservices

Knowledgeable in GenAI models, prompt engineering, Agentic AI

Firsthand technical implementation experience

Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to see the connections between layers of business operations.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience in end-to-end AI solutions such as vector databases, data preprocessing and ingestion along with AI development and deployment platforms

Experience implementing enterprise platforms such as content management, low code platforms, app builders.

Knowledgeable in security protocols

Preferred financial industry experience.

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $122,500-$210,000 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

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 Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.​

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: 92256