VP, Head of Information (Data) Architecture

Location Designation: Hybrid 

 

 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

 

 

Overview: New York Life is in search of a forward-thinking, seasoned outcomes-oriented Head of Information Architecture to architect the foundation of our data design. As an integral member and a member of the Chief Data Officer's leadership team, this role will champion, standardize and evolve the enterprise's information architecture for structured data, ensuring cohesion and integrity across all domains. If you are someone who thrives in a fast-paced, transformative data-driven environment, this is the opportunity for you.

 

Responsibilities of this role include leading a team of 8-10 information/data architects and providing expert-level information architecture capabilities including owning, developing and training on enterprise-wide standards, development of conceptual and logical data models for enterprise data domains, driving information architecture standards enabling function-specific domains, and engaging data engineers to communicate business data requirements and models enabling solution development.

 

Moreover, the successful candidate will lead the design of enterprise data domains including customer, product, other various party roles, and reference data. In addition, the successful candidate will oversee the development of information architecture via federated architects aligned to business value streams who are focused on function-specific data domains.  NYL is currently in the process of implementing a Value Stream operating model will establish cross-functional teams that are focused on delivering clear business outcomes and improving the customer and agent experience.  The Head of Information Architecture will have a critical role in ensuring the alignment of information architecture and data assets to business and technology architecture, enabling the Value Streams to individually and collectively achieve their objectives by delivering the right data, enabling insights and data-driven decision making, and deploying data science/AI solutions.

 

Responsibilities also include evaluating commercial platforms for data model integrity, driving the establishment of “golden sources” of enterprise data, and owning the key business decisions throughout the lifecycle of data domains (sourcing, appropriate use, data quality goals, retention, etc.

 

Success in the role will be measured by the degree to which information architecture capabilities and data domains are matured and employed to support the objectives of New York Life business priorities, and enable technology solutions including transactional systems, BI analytics, data science and emerging GenAI solutions.

 

Key Accountabilities:

• Spearhead a team of 8-10 information architects, mentoring and providing direction.
• Establish, disseminate, and oversee the implementation of enterprise-wide information architecture standards, including the organizing taxonomy for all data domains.
• Apply information architecture standards and develop robust conceptual and logical data models for enterprise data domains and reference data enabling applications/ transactions and consumption (BI/analytics, data science, Gen AI)
• Engage Value Stream business and technology leaders, fully understand as well as help shape strategy, and align information architecture activities and outcomes aligned with business outcomes.
• Own the key business decisions throughout the lifecycle of data domains (sourcing, appropriate use, retention, etc.
• Liaise with Technology leaders and data engineers to convey business data requirements and models.
• Evaluate and ensure data model integrity across commercial platforms, fostering the establishment of trusted enterprise data sources.
• Conduct assessments of current data domain statuses and envision their desired future states, orchestrating roadmaps to bridge any existing gaps.
• Ensure alignment to the emerging Enterprise Unstructured Taxonomy and assist in its development.
• Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders across business and technology functions, promoting a data-driven culture.
• Champion the importance and role of data governance, ensuring data is recognized and managed as a critical asset.
• Contribute to the development of Communities of Practice - virtual organizat