Corporate Vice President - Technical Lead

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. 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) 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.

New York Life Insurance Company is a Fortune 100 company that provides insurance, asset management, and retirement-related services. The company was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in New York City. New York Life is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world.