Senior Solution Architect & Distinguished AI Engineer

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

Job summary

New York Life is seeking a Solution Architect & Distinguished Engineer to provide senior, hands-on technical leadership across Field Experience. You will shape the architecture of intelligent, connected, and composable experiences that help our field professionals serve clients, grow their practices, and operate effectively.

This role combines modern application architecture, cloud, data, APIs, events, Generative AI, and agentic AI.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, AI/ML engineering, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Deep expertise in modern application and distributed-system architecture, including cloud, APIs, services, events, integration, data, security, resilience, observability, and DevSecOps.
• Strong experience with Generative AI and agentic AI, including LLM-based systems, retrieval and grounding, context engineering, agent orchestration, tool integration, evaluation, guardrails, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Shape Architecture Across Field Experience: Define and evolve cross-domain architecture direction aligned with Field Experience priorities and enterprise technology standards.
• Create target-state architectures and modernization strategies spanning applications, cloud, data, integration, AI, and digital experiences.
• Build Modern, Composable Experiences: Create reusable patterns for APIs, services, events, data products, and composable user experiences.
• Promote architectures that allow capabilities to evolve independently while contributing to coherent advisor, field leader, and client journeys.
• Guide cloud modernization, interoperability, resilience, security, observability, and DevSecOps practices across strategic initiatives.
• Provide Hands-On Technical Leadership: Develop reference architectures, prototypes, reference implementations, and mentoring to elevate engineering practices.

Job description

New York Life is seeking a Solution Architect & Distinguished Engineer to provide senior, hands-on technical leadership across Field Experience. You will shape the architecture of intelligent, connected, and composable experiences that help our field professionals serve clients, grow their practices, and operate effectively.

This role combines modern application architecture, cloud, data, APIs, events, Generative AI, and agentic AI.