Location Designation:Hybrid - 3 days per week

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:

As a Cloud and Integrations Engineering Manager, you will be responsible in several key areas. First, you will use your extensive Cloud Engineering and Architecture experience to drive cloud solutions in the Field Experience value stream at NYL. Secondly, you will manage a team of Cloud and Integrations engineers, ensuring a quality technical product and timely delivery of solutions. Lastly, you will be spearheading one or more targeted initiatives, including SaaS platform deployment, in-house developed software, and cloud platform solutions primarily on AWS. You'll collaborate with cross-tech teams and business teams to drive the successful delivery of business solutions on all these platforms, as well as manage team members to successfully implement these solutions. This role demands strong Cloud technical expertise, technology leadership, people leadership, and the ability to drive technology solutions to completion. Integrating AI toolsets and mindset into all of these responsibilities will be a key factor in this position.

What You'll Do:

• Manage team of Cloud, DevOps, and Integration Engineering in design, engineering, and technical delivery. This team performs these functions in support of many large and small initiatives in the value stream including Financial Advisor Onboarding platforms, Advisor Recruiting, Supervision, Management, Collaboration, and Compensation.
• Design and Architect Cloud solutions across multiple platforms, primarily AWS, Mulesoft, and multiple DevOps / AI toolsets.
• Lead important initiatives for the Field Experience domain from a technical standpoint, starting with New York Life's critical agent recruiting and candidate platforms. These will be a mix of SaaS and homegrown platform builds.
• Ensure AI efficiencies are maximized in design and development to free up engineering teams for more thought leadership, learning, and business partnership.

More About What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with architects and business stakeholders to gather, understand, and translate requirements and architectural designs into cloud solutions. Also, lead the development of those architectural designs.
• Develop into an internal NYL SME for the Agent recruiting applications, components, and data.
• Lead in the development of Agentic enablement, where applicable, in the development of business solutions through technology and data componentry.
• Mentor cloud and integration engineers in design and implementation techniques and assist them with development hurdles.
• Learn and administer NYL Enterprise architectural patterns and standards, ensuring all engineers follow suit.
• Partner with the Scrum Masters and Product Owners to refine and analyze the backlog and drive the technical delivery of features into working software and designs.
• Conducts complete assessments of complex business problems, including those involving multiple systems, customers, platforms, and technologies.
• Develop and implement solutions to form connective tissue between NYL platforms and all the necessary data, solutions, and services using modern integration technologies such as REST, platform events, data-in-motion, pub-sub, event streaming, and event-driven patterns.
• Ensure applications and components are optimized for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ensure cloud development best practices across the lifecycle: design through development through QA through support.
• Work closely with the agile scrum team and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of milestones.
• Stay current with cloud platforms and industry trends to drive innovation in solution design.
• Stay current on NYL architectural standards.
• Assist with planning and strategy for future PI increments for agent recruiting applications and more.

What You'll Bring:

You will bring a deep understanding of both Cloud and full-stack development, how they differ, and how they work together. You will also bring a deep experience in driving technical solutions to business problems, both on an independent and team leadership level. You will use your ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines. Finally, utilize your hunger for continuous learning of new technologies, methodologies, and ways to solve problems, especially in the reimagining of technical processes using evolving AI toolsets.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• 5+ years' experience as a Cloud Engineer / Developer; 12+ years professional experience as a software engineer, programmer, architect, or similar role.
  • Full Stack development experience is a must.
  • Seasoned AWS experience is a must.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; Can work independently to solve complex technical issues.
• Strong data, database, and data analytics skills, especially in relation to business understanding of the data and how technology solutions can evolve around this understanding.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Mulesoft experience / design a plus.
• Kafka experience a plus.
• Experience with document / NoSQL databases a plus.

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:$147,500-$211,000

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.

Company Overview

At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.

Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.

As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.

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 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.

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Job Requisition ID: 93675