Corporate Vice President - Financial Modeling Technology

New York Life Insurance; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life seeks a senior technology leader to own the end-to-end technology capability for financial modeling initiatives such as Capital Planning, NII Modeling, and Scenario Analysis. This role requires broad expertise in modern application development, data analytics, AI, and enterprise architecture, with a focus on scalable, auditable, and transparent modeling ecosystems.

You will guide architecture, data governance, and engineering practices across Finance, Technology, Data, and Strategy

Qualifications

• 15+ years of leadership in technology, software engineering, or digital transformation.
• Experience owning end-to-end technology capabilities or major transformation domains.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across large enterprises.
• Broad background across application development, APIs, data, cloud, and automation.
• Strong understanding of generative AI and AI-assisted engineering.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technology teams and managing partners.
• Experience in enterprise Risk, Security, Compliance, Audit, and controls.
• Strong analytical and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the future-state technology capability across financial modeling domains.
• Modernize modeling architecture for scalability, transparency, and integration.
• Lead outcome teams for Capital Planning, NII Modeling, Driver-Based Modeling, Scenario Analysis, and related capabilities.
• Establish patterns for model inputs, versioning, lineage, controls, testing, and outputs.
• Evaluate where AI can accelerate model development while preserving deterministic calculations and controls.
• Partner with Finance, Technology, Data, and Strategy teams to translate business intent into executable capabilities.

Skills

Domain Technology Leadership

Technology & Engineering Judgment

Systems Thinking

AI-Enabled Transformation

Executive Communication & Influence

Strategic Planning & Execution

Enterprise Delivery Discipline

Talent & Partner Leadership

People Management

Job description

Job Description

New York, New York, United States

Hybrid

Requisition ID

94912

Location

New York,New York,United States

Role Location Designation

Technology, Data, AI and Ventures:

Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.

Business Overview

Enterprise Plan to Perform (EPP) is one of New York Life's strategic transformations, focused on reimagining how the enterprise plans, projects, understands, and manages financial performance. EPP spans Expense Management, Planning & Projections, Performance Management, Financial Modeling, NEXUS, and related enterprise capabilities, bringing together business-process reimagination, modern technology, data, analytics, automation, and AI.

Role Overview

The Corporate Vice President, Financial Modeling Technology provides senior technology leadership for a major domain within New York Life's Enterprise Plan to Perform (EPP) transformation. The initial assignment is Financial Modeling, where the leader will own the technology ecosystem supporting critical financial models and analytical capabilities, including Capital Planning, NII Modeling, Driver-Based Modeling, and Scenario Analysis.

The role owns the end-to-end technology capability for the domain, spanning technology strategy, roadmap, applications, data and analytics requirements, AI and automation, architecture, integration, engineering, controls, production readiness, workforce and partner capacity, and measurable business outcomes. The leader works across Finance, business, Technology, Data, Architecture, Risk and Control functions, and strategic partners to translate future-state business intent into scalable enterprise capabilities.

This is broader than an application development or program management role. The leader is expected to combine business understanding, systems thinking, technology and engineering judgment, and transformation leadership; challenge current-state constraints; and ensure the domain evolves as a coherent capability that integrates effectively with the broader EPP ecosystem and NEXUS experience.

What You'll Do

• Own the future-state technology capability across Capital Planning, NII Modeling, Driver-Based Modeling, Scenario Analysis, and related financial modeling capabilities.
• Modernize modeling architecture to improve scalability, transparency, reproducibility, explainability, reuse, and integration with enterprise planning and decision support.
• Lead distinct outcome teams for Capital Planning, NII Modeling, Driver-Based Modeling, Scenario Analysis, and additional modeling capabilities as the domain evolves.
• Establish robust patterns for model inputs, calculation engines, versioning, lineage, controls, testing, model outputs, and integration into downstream planning and performance experiences.
• Evaluate where AI can accelerate model development, scenario generation, explanation, sensitivity analysis, and user interaction while preserving deterministic calculations and appropriate controls.

Technology, AI & Engineering Leadership

• Own the target-state technology strategy and roadmap for the domain, including application, integration, data, analytics, AI, automation, and engineering implications.
• Drive pragmatic use of rapid prototyping, specification-driven development, AI-assisted engineering, automated testing, and continuous business validation.
• Promote systems thinking so solution decisions account for upstream and downstream impacts across workflows, data, architecture, security, controls, and operations.
• Identify where generative AI and agentic capabilities can materially reimagine workflows, analysis, decision support, and execution rather than simply automate existing steps.
• Maintain strong standards for engineering quality, scalability, resiliency, responsible AI, observability, production readiness, and technical sustainability.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Interfaces

• Partner closely with Planning & Projections Technology so models are embedded in planning and forecasting workflows rather than operating as isolated analytical assets.
• Partner with NEXUS Technology to surface model outputs, scenarios, explanations, and decision support through the common EPP experience.
• Partner with Data Architecture on authoritative inputs, lineage, semantics, and traceability required for controlled financial modeling.
• Partner with Business Discovery & Solution Strategy leaders to translate future-state business intent into executable technology capabilities and roadmaps.
• Partner with Solution Engineering & Architecture and Data Architecture to ensure domain solutions align with cross-EPP architecture and data patterns.
• Lead multidisciplinary outcome teams and coordinate NYL engineers, forward deployed engineers, federated resources, domain SMEs, and strategic partner engineers.
• Build trusted relationships with senior Finance, business, and Technology stakeholders and create transparency around priorities, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.

Investment, Workforce & Delivery Accountability

• Shape domain investment priorities, sequencing, resource requirements, and capacity plans based on business value, dependencies, risk, and delivery readiness.
• Manage strategic technology and engineering partners as an integrated part of the domain team with clear accountability for quality, outcomes, and knowledge transfer.
• Establish transparent measures of delivery health, adoption, quality, and value realization and use them to drive decisions and accountability.
• Ensure security, privacy, controls, auditability, and operational readiness are incorporated from inception through production.

Talent & Organizational Leadership

• Build, lead and develop high performing teams with strong domain knowledge and modern technology and engineering capabilities.
• Attract, develop and retain forward deployed and other high caliber technology talent, while building technology leadership and domain expertise across the organization.
• Establish clear accountability and a culture of collaboration, innovation, engineering discipline and continuous improvement.
• Lead effectively through both direct authority and matrixed relationships across Business, Product, Technology and partner teams.

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in technology, software engineering, solution delivery, digital transformation, or related disciplines, including significant leadership responsibility in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience owning end-to-end technology capabilities or major transformation domains from strategy through architecture, engineering, implementation, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success operating in federated or matrixed enterprises and influencing senior business and technology stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Broad technology and engineering background spanning modern application development, APIs and integration, data, analytics, cloud platforms, enterprise architecture, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, agentic technologies, and AI-assisted engineering and their practical application to enterprise workflows and software delivery.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technology teams and managing strategic partners, contractors, and federated resources.
• Experience operating within enterprise Risk, Security, Compliance, Audit, and control environments.
• Strong analytical, communication, prioritization, and executive-influence capabilities.

Required Skills

• Domain Technology Leadership - Owns the complete technology capability for a major business domain, not simply an application portfolio.
• Technology & Engineering Judgment - Evaluates solution approaches, architecture and data implications, engineering tradeoffs, and production risks.
• Systems Thinking - Understands interactions across process, applications, data, analytics, architecture, controls, and operating models.
• AI-Enabled Transformation - Identifies where AI and agentic capabilities can materially change workflows, decisions, and delivery economics.
• Executive Communication & Influence - Creates clarity, drives decisions, and influences senior stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Strategic Planning & Execution - Converts future-state ambition into prioritized roadmaps, investments, sequencing, and executable outcomes.
• Enterprise Delivery Discipline - Applies SDLC, Agile and Lean principles pragmatically with strong dependency, release, and production-readiness management.
• Talent & Partner Leadership - Builds strong teams and integrates internal, federated, and external engineering capacity around common outcomes.
• People Management – Develops and empowers talent through clear expectations, actionable feedback, effective coaching, and accountability, while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with financial modeling platforms, calculation engines, actuarial or finance models, capital/NII modeling, scenario analysis, or quantitative technology.
• Experience with model governance, reproducibility, lineage, controls, and integration of complex models into enterprise workflows.

Why This Role

This MG3 role carries end-to-end accountability for an enduring EPP technology domain with enterprise business impact, multiple outcome teams, consequential architecture and investment decisions, and significant cross-organizational influence. The leader is expected to shape both what the future-state technology capability becomes and how it is delivered, while operating as a senior peer to other EPP domain and horizontal technology leaders.

Company Overview

At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology, data, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact. Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference through bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter.

At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.

Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.

As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.

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 in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com .

Job Level: LEVELMG3

Pay Transparency

Salary Range:$185,000-$264,500

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Job Requisition ID: 94912

Disclaimer 1 :

Eligibility for, and benefits under, the Pension Plan and 401(k) Savings Plan (“Plans”) are determined in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan document. Employees of certain subsidiaries, including but not limited to Group Benefit Solutions, employees of Life Insurance Company of North America and New York Life Group Insurance Company of NY, are not eligible to participate in the Pension Plan. In the event of a conflict between this information and the applicable plan document, the applicable plan document governs. The Company reserves the right to amend or terminate the Plans at any time.