Corporate Vice President - Solutions Architect

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

 

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.

 

 

Company Introduction                                                 

New York Life Insurance Company (“New York Life” or “the company”) is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States*. Founded in 1845, New York Life is head quartered in New York City, maintains offices in all fifty states. New York Life is one of the most financially strong and highly capitalized insurers in the business. New York Life holds the highest possible financial strength ratings currently awarded to any life insurer from all four of the major ratings agencies: A.M. Best, A++; Fitch AAA; Moody’s Aaa; Standard & Poor’s AA+. (Source: Individual Third-Party Ratings Report as of 8/11/15). Financial strength, integrity, and humanity—the values upon which New York Life was founded—have guided the company’s decisions and actions for 179 years.

 

 

 

When you join New York Life, you are 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 will 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.

 

 

 

 

• Serves as a liaison between the business or functional community and the Technology organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
• Possess expertise in the business or functional areas they support, as well as an understanding of related technology systems and capabilities.
• Assist in the process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology solutions.
• Transform requirements into conceptual architecture design documents. 
• Design technology solutions and goals for a specific solution and/or infrastructural area, in collaboration with Value Stream Architect and Technology Analysts 
• Work with Value Stream Architects to ensure that a solution architecture aligns and is consistent with both Value Stream design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards. 
• Understand and augments the conceptual architecture and design to address integrations being applied across businesses, applications, technologies and services. 
• Facilitate solution design discussions. 
• Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business partners and work with them to shape requirements accordingly.
• Create and translate high-level business requirements into functional specifications for Technology and manage changes to such specifications.
• Support the product owner in the development of the product backlog.
• Elaborate story acceptance criteria, in consultation with the product owner, to ensure that it demonstrates the business need and stated business value can be realized.
• Review the functionality after the developer has completed coding to ensure that the functionality meets the acceptance criteria.
• Recommend changes to existing processes to reduce overhead and eliminate waste while still controlling risk.
• Develop and maintain analytics reporting and processes that provide insights to business performance and key metrics (where required)
• Synthesize data from various sources to uncover insights about operations, helping to drive important strategic decisions.

 

 

Salary range: $132,500-$197,500 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

 

Click here to learn more about our benefits. Starting salary is dependent upon several factors including previous work experience, specific industry experience, and/or skills required.

 

 

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