Location Designation:Hybrid - 3 days per month
As part of our Technology organization, 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:
As the Chief Technology Infrastructure Architect you will play a key role in the Enterprise Technology Services team, reporting directly to the NYL Enterprise Architect. As the Infrastructure Architect you will serve as a strategic partner and advisor to the EA Community and Product/Service Owners, offering deep technical expertise to build highly resilient platforms to achieve strict standards of performance and business resiliency. The ideal candidate is an experienced technologist with years of practical experience engineering and developing enterprise technology solutions. Each day in the role is an opportunity to drive outcomes in the form of industry leading digital client experiences. Collaboration and developing partnerships are a critical success factory. You will support the EA Domain Architect Community who will leverage their collective experience to build a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise capabilities consumed by our diverse portfolio of insurance, investments, and benefits products & services. The ideal candidate must focus on facilitating technology solutions keeping agility in balance with governance and standards. The focus of the role is building reuseable patterns for enterprise consumption creating a fast path for delivery of capabilities the broader technology organization. A key focus is promoting a frictionless developer experience by establishing reuseable full stack application infrastructure patterns.
What You'll Do:
* Evangelist for the software development community endeavoring to facilitate the deployment of business capabilities
* Documenting architectural patterns and co-developing solutions with agile software development teams.
* Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture
* Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards
* Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
* Leads efforts to develop detail business cases and TCO models
* Expert in cloud economics leading decisions on the most cost effective deployment models
Business & Technology Skills:
* Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams
* Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice and is more interested in results than personal preferences
* Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity
* Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes
* Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams
What You'll Bring:
* Bachelor's degree computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
* Experience operating in SAFe Agile and Scrum Frameworks
* Practical experience in developing and deploying ML/AI and data analytics solutions
* Experience as full stack engineer deploying AWS services, microservices, and Kubernetes
* A bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
* A minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
* Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments
* Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
* Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps
* Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
* Certified Solution Architect, ITIL - Master Certification, TOGAF 9, or Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect.
* AWS Certified Architect and/or developer
Pay Transparency
Salary Range:$155,000-$240,000
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 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 theFoundation.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.
Job Requisition ID:91540
