Corporate Vice President - Technical Lead

Location Designation: Hybrid - 1 day per week 

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.

This position involves a hybrid work schedule - working on site one day per week,

New York Life Insurance (NYL) is seeking a highly talented and experienced Technical Lead to support the modernization of our Group Membership (GMAD) business.  This role is instrumental in executing technical solutions, integrating platforms, and collaborating with business and technology teams to support scalable, efficient, and modern systems.

NYL is uniquely positioned for success thanks to our significant strategic advantage in insurance expertise and deep financial resources attributed to our 180-year history and AAA rating.  We are looking for a self-motivated technologist with a result focused mindset to join our team that will modernize, transform, and set the foundational ecosystem of the future. This candidate should possess the combination of technical savvy and drive to join the team with vision, experience and commitment to modernizing and transforming the Group Membership Insurance ecosystem. 

Role Overview:

The Technical Lead role is critical to delivering our innovation roadmap.  It requires a highly organized technologist with a track record of working collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team to deliver on projects and actively assist development teams in building end-to-end technology solutions.  The individual must dive deep into resolving technology challenges with the teams while also possessing the capability to provide updates to Group Membership’s Senior Management.  The ideal candidate has a minimum of 10 years of experience in architecture, design, development, and delivery on complex, multi-cloud, multi-provider, new platform introductions.

What You’ll Do:

• Understand stakeholder needs and strategy to help develop on business roadmap: partner with product owners and organization stakeholders within Group Membership to understand goals, strategy, scope, and use cases to that drive the technology roadmap. Partner with business stakeholders to create application architecture and technology roadmaps for GMAD.

• Serve as senior subject matter expert for platform and integration: leverage use cases and a deep understanding of our platforms to develop solution architecture and design and collaborate with enterprise teams as applicable. Partner with business resources and platform vendor resources to expand and share knowledge of the platform and its capabilities.  Responsible for defining how platforms integrate to power an efficient technology ecosystem for our business. Lead and support initiatives including CRM implementation, data management platforms, and cloud technology. 

• Project execution and leadership: Collaborate with and motivate a cross-functional team of business analysts, developers, and testers to build, execute and release features in alignment with our roadmap.  In partnership with the product owners, drive, negotiate, and prioritize project activities and problem solve to mitigate risks to meet business commitments by staying on-schedule and within budget.  Escalate options to the GMAD CTO when important decisions are needed and accountable for managing stakeholder expectations and validating work effort and project plans.

• Partner with the Business User Acceptance Testing leader to ensure quality work is deployed: Partner with test leads to ensure testing plans ensure quality deliverables are delivered to users.  In some instances, help support business user acceptance testing responsibilities (test plans and use cases creation to reflect requirements which demonstrate that deliverable meets quality standards and is ready for field and customer use)

• Monitoring, quality, and transition to steady state: review and conduct post-deployment validation and ongoing monitoring, as needed by the initiative. Work with QA and delivery teams, ensure consistent high-quality releases through measurement tracking, lesson learned cadence and continuous improvement.

What you'll bring:

• Proven track record designing systems/applications with complexity (e.g. multiple interfaces, multiple packages, platforms) while maintaining focus on ecosystem simplification.
• Experience supporting large scale initiatives and leading platform operations including ecosystems with one or more common enterprise software solutions (e.g. CRM, BPM, ERP)
• Experience indirect management of cross-functional teams to effectively deliver on commitments, easily pivoting as needed to meet shifts in business priorities.
• Ability to build strong partnerships to work both independently and as a collaborative team player who is highly proficient in working across organizations and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives with a high attention to detail and balance the need to work strategically versus hands-on problem solving.
• Ability to effectively communicate and influence complex technical decisions to varying audiences, including non-technical business executives, effectively articulating pros and cons, impacts and risks.
• Adaptive to changing priorities and managing multiple simultaneous commitments on time, on budget and with quality.
• Strong verbal and written communications combined with technical acumen.
• Self-starter, comfortable with navigating ambiguity, and passionate about driving change.
• Strong knowledge of modern Infrastructure and Application Development practices and tools
• Strong knowledge of Cloud-Enabled/Optimized practices and implications for Application Development teams
• Strong SOA concepts and tools experience
• Strong XML schema experience, ACORD experience preferred.
• Strong Java / .NET / Web App experience
• Strong experience with source control management
• Strong Relational Database development experience, design experience preferred.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
   

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience working in IT, with experience in design and delivery.
• 5-10 years application development or Microservice development experience
• 3-5 years platform experience in AWS Cloud environment
• 3-5 years platform experience in Salesforce
• 3-5 years platform experience in MuleSoft AnyPoint.
• 3-5 years solution and system integration
• 5+ years Life Insurance or Financial Services industry experience
• 3-5 years Architecture experience in Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Data Warehousing
• Experience in designing and building integrations between multiple on premises applications and/or cloud hosted systems.
• Strong understanding of data Integration java design patterns & best practices
• Experience working in waterfall and a scaled agile delivery framework (SAFe) using agile software (Jira) or equivalent. 

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This position involves a hybrid work schedule - working on site one day per week,

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $165,000-$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: 91886