Corporate Vice President - Senior Data Architect - New York Life Insurance Company

Corporate Vice President - Senior Data Architect

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:

We are seeking an energetic and passionate Senior Data Architect to design and execute our company’s modern data management strategy. As a key member of the Enterprise Data team, you will collaborate with Data Product Owners, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and end-users to reimagine, design, and build the next generation of cloud-based insurance solutions using cutting-edge technologies like AWS, APIs, and AI.

In this role, you will proactively engage with cross-functional teams, including the Product Managers, key business leaders, Data/Technology leaders, and Value Stream Architects. You will design and support strategic data architecture decisions that shape our enterprise data products, enabling the organization to achieve its future-state business capabilities and target architecture.

Additionally, you will be responsible for evaluating existing data pipeline architectures, enhancing foundational elements, participating in product ideation, and providing recommendations for technology stack improvements.

What You’ll Do:

• Design scalable and efficient data architectures that enable enterprise data products, including Logical and Physical data models, storage solutions, and data integration processes.
• Develop data management frameworks and standards to ensure data integrity, quality, and security.
• Work closely with Data Product Managers, Value Stream architects, and Data engineers to understand business problems and translate these requirements into data product solutions.
• Create and maintain inventory and designs of current state “data capabilities” supporting the FB and SIB teams.
• Create an integrated view of end state data architecture and align on target-state data product capabilities and corresponding architectural designs.
• Identify and frame opportunities for consolidation/simplification of legacy technologies, data stores, and applications.
• Act as a liaison between IT and business units to ensure alignment of data initiatives with business objectives.
• Monitor and maintain data systems to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Develop and enforce data governance policies and procedures.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies in data architecture and management.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation within the existing data infrastructure.
• Promote best practices in data architecture and data management across the organization.
• Ensure data solutions comply with relevant data privacy and security regulations.
• Implement data security measures to protect sensitive information.

What You’ll Bring:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a Data Architect for large-scale enterprise solutions, with a strong focus on agile practices.
• Extensive experience in Data Architecture, Cloud Solutions, emerging technologies, Big Data, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence.
• Proven ability to design and implement data architectures that define and deliver data as a product.
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture, including experience with data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, relational and dimensional modeling, data quality, and master data management.
• Strong background in Operational Data Stores and supporting application data architecture.
• Experience in designing, deploying, and evaluating tools, frameworks, and patterns for scalable data platforms.
• Extensive experience with industry-leading data platform technologies such as Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake.
• Experience with database technologies for both structured and unstructured data, ensuring optimal storage and retrieval.
• Proficient in cloud architecture and best practices, particularly with AWS Cloud tools such as Amazon RDS, Redshift, AWS DMS, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and more.
• Proficient in managing large datasets, cloud computing, open-source tools, and optimization techniques.
• Expertise in overall solution architecture for data platforms built on the cloud.
• Strong experience in data integration, data processing, data streaming, and message queuing techniques.
• Familiarity with relevant code repository and project tools like GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively conveying complex concepts to both technical and business teams.

Desired Skills:

• Solid understanding of the insurance, wealth management or financial services industry.
• Extensive hands-on development experience with Cloud (AWS, Azure) and Storage services are desirable.
• Knowledge of machine learning pipelines and frameworks is a plus.
• Experience supporting AI solutions with data product strategy and enabling solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an Engineering discipline.
• Certification in data management (structure and unstructured), and/or cloud architecture or engineering a plus.
• Certification in delivery methodologies such as Scaled Agile a plus.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, and cloud tech developing production grade software components and solutions.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $125,000-$212,500

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Job Requisition ID: 90806

About NY Life Insurance Company

Diversity & Humanity–two values that are deeply rooted in the New York Life culture and have laid the foundation for over 175 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. At New York Life you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring culture that has a long-standing legacy in stability and growth.

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