Corporate Vice President - AWS Cloud Data Platform Engineer

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: The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Engineer to help build, automate, and support robust cloud platform solutions for data management. You will work on creating scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions to support our core data, reporting, and analytics platform.

What You’ll do:

• Design and Develop Cloud Solutions:
  • Build, automate, and support Cloud Data Platform solutions for Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Data Mesh architectures.
  • Utilize AWS services (e.g., S3, IAM, KMS, EC2, Glue, Redshift, RDS, Lake Formation, Lambda) to create robust and scalable solutions.
  • Implement industry best practices for data security using AWS IAM in multi-account environments.
• Platform Management and Optimization:
  • Leverage automation tools (Terraform, Jenkins, dbt, GitHub) to manage and enhance EDM platforms.
  • Utilize containerization technologies (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes) where appropriate.
  • Establish and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and cost-control procedures to ensure optimal platform performance.
• Collaboration and Continuous Improvement:
  • Work closely with Data Architects, Engineers, DBAs, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and build flexible, scalable solutions.
  • Participate in quarterly on-site planning and strategy sessions.
  • Stay current with industry trends in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Data Governance.
• Support and Maintenance:
  • Participate in Level 3 on-call support rotation.
  • Ensure systems are highly available, resilient, and designed to scale efficiently.

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience as an Enterprise Data Platform Engineer in Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, or Data Mesh environments.
• 3+ years as a Cloud Data Platform Engineer or similar roles (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Site Reliability Engineer).
• 3+ years of experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, Glue, Redshift, RDS) in shared or hybrid environments.
• Proficiency in AWS tools and serverless technologies, security best practices, and automation tools.
• Experience with containerization, monitoring, and cost management.
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile principles.