Vice President - Head of Enterprise Architecture

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

Job Summary:

As part of our Technology organization, 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 Head of Enterprise Architecture (EA) will be part of the Enterprise Technology Services team, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer. EA serves as a strategic partner and advisor to both business and technology teams, offering proactive, holistic support to help achieve their goals. The ideal candidate is an experienced technologist with years of practical experience engineering and developing enterprise technology solutions. Each day in the role is an opportunity to drive outcomes in the form of industry leading digital client experiences. Collaboration and developing partnerships are a critical success factory. You will build and support the EA Domain Architect Community who will leverage their collective experience to build a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise capabilities consumed by our diverse portfolio of insurance, investments, and benefits products & services. The ideal candidate must focus on facilitating technology solutions keeping agility in balance with governance and standards. The focus of the role is building reuseable patterns for enterprise consumption creating a fast path for delivery of capabilities the broader technology organization.  EA plays a key role in guiding the adoption of new and emerging technologies to meet business needs. As we adopt new technologies the EA community maintains a technology roadmap which addresses lifecycle management cost efficiency within our software portfolio.

 

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as a technology evangelist promoting advanced technologies such as GenAI, AgenticAI, and Quantum Computing
• Establishes and maintains architecture community by sponsoring workshops focused on development of technology solutions and patterns which drive reuse and reduce time to market for new business services.
• Promote secure by design solutions and facilitate the development of best practices and software capabilities to protect our employee and client data.
• Promote the benefits of the EA Application Portfolio Platform (LeanIX) and drive continuous improvement efforts to ensure all business and technology services are well defined and therefore leveraged appropriately by the broader technology organization.
• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
• Analyze trends and disruptions and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

 

Business & Technology Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience operating in SAFe Agile and Scrum Frameworks
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong managerial accounting skills and an expert in developing business cases and total cost of ownership models for technology investments and large transformation efforts.
• Strong understanding of risk management and compliance
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, a