Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering – Cloud-Native Platforms

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

Job summary

New York Life seeks a Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering to lead strategy, delivery, and evolution of shared technology platforms across Insurance, Annuities, and Wealth. You will guide modernization toward cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures while balancing business delivery with platform health.

This role leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization, partnering with business, product, and architecture leaders to translate priorities into sustainable

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering across enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set the engineering and platform strategy for Integrated Solutions, defining multi-year technology roadmaps and modernization priorities across shared capabilities.
• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization of employees and consultants; establish clear accountability and foster engineering excellence.
• Modernize enterprise platforms through cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven integration, containerization, automation, and AI-assisted practices.
• Drive architectural decisions across complex initiatives; resolve dependencies and align with business objectives.
• Own engineering health and operational excellence across platforms by establishing measurable outcomes for reliability, security, scalability, and debt reduction.

Skills

Cloud-native apps

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Leadership

Legacy modernization

SRE practices

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master in CS/EE

Equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Kafka

GraphQL

REST APIs

Job description

New York Life seeks a Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering to lead strategy, delivery, and evolution of shared technology platforms across Insurance, Annuities, and Wealth. You will guide modernization toward cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures while balancing business delivery with platform health.

This role leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization, partnering with business, product, and architecture leaders to translate priorities into sustainable