Corporate Vice President - IAM Engineer

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

Role Overview:

The IAM Engineer will play a key role in designing, engineering, and maintaining NYL’s Identity & Access Management solutions across all IAM domains: Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Directory Services, and Web Access Management (WAM). This role blends hands-on engineering with solution architecture, ensuring IAM capabilities are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
As NYL moves toward an AI-enabled enterprise, the IAM Engineer will also help adapt identity services to meet a new class of challenges: managing non-human identities at scale, securing AI models and agents as first-class identities, governing access to sensitive data fueling AI, and defending against AI-driven fraud and abuse. The successful candidate will be curious, adaptable, and ready to evolve IAM for a future where identity is the foundation of both human and machine trust.

What You’ll Do:
• Engineer, configure, and maintain IAM solutions across IGA, PAM, Directory, and WAM domains.
• Collaborate with architecture teams to design IAM solutions that integrate securely with on-premises and cloud applications (AWS, SaaS, hybrid models).
• Develop and maintain workflows, connectors, policies, and scripts to automate identity lifecycle and access management processes.
• Integrate IAM solutions with enterprise authentication and authorization frameworks, including MFA, password less authentication, and emerging NHI standards (e.g., SPIFFE, DCR, PKCE).
• Partner with Information Security, Application, and Infrastructure teams to ensure IAM solutions meet security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex IAM-related incidents, performance issues, and integration challenges.
• Support roadmap delivery for IAM initiatives, including cloud adoption, Zero Trust enablement, and modernization of legacy IAM services.
• Contribute to solution design reviews, platform upgrades, and security hardening initiatives.

What You’ll Bring:
• Identity Threat Defense: Engineer IAM controls to mitigate AI-driven risks, including synthetic identity creation, credential-stuffing with AI automation, deepfake impersonation in identity proofing, and adaptive MFA bypasses.
• AI/ML Integration: Design and deploy AI/ML-driven capabilities for anomaly detection, risk scoring, intelligent access certification, and adaptive authentication.
• Non-Human Identity (NHI) Management: Build lifecycle governance for service accounts, APIs, bots, and autonomous AI agents; implement just-in-time provisioning and least-privilege enforcement.
• AI Model & Agent Governance: Treat AI models and agents as privileged entities; engineer role-based and attribute-based controls for who (or what) can invoke, train, or query AI models.
• Data Access for AI: Integrate IAM with data governance frameworks to enforce fine-grained entitlements for datasets feeding AI/ML pipelines, ensuring regulatory compliance (e.g., privacy, explainability).
• Trust Frameworks: Participate in defining federated trust models for AI ecosystems (e.g., cross-enterprise identity assertions, machine-to-machine federation, attestations for AI supply chains).
• Automation at Scale: Build automation scripts (Python, PowerShell, Java) to integrate IAM with AI operations and security orchestration platforms.
• Continuous Innovation: Stay engaged with emerging standards (e.g., FIDO2 passkeys, verifiable credentials, decentralized identity, AI transparency frameworks) and introduce concepts to strengthen IAM’s role in AI risk management.

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $144,000-$205,500 

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: 92841