VP / Head of Enterprise Architecture

New York Life Insurance Co; New York (NY); On-site; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life Insurance Co. seeks a strategic Head of Enterprise Architecture to guide technology strategy across diverse insurance, investments, and benefits offerings.

You will lead the EA community, promote reusable patterns, and ensure governance balances agility and delivery speed across business units. You will collaborate with business and IT leaders, shape roadmaps for emerging tech, and mentor architects to advance architectural thinking while driving cost efficiency and scalable

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities are required.
• Experience operating in SAFe Agile and Scrum frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams across IT and business.
• Develop business cases and total cost of ownership models for technology investments.
• Understanding of risk management and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technology evangelist promoting advanced technologies such as Cloud, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, GenAI, AgenticAI, and Quantum Computing.
• Establishes and maintains architecture community with workshops to drive reuse and faster delivery.
• Promote secure-by-design solutions and best practices for protecting data.
• Promote the EA Application Portfolio Platform (LeanIX) and improve service definitions for the broader tech org.
• Facilitate alignment between business and IT across the democratized IT landscape through strong communication.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
• Analyze trends and disruptions and assess their impact on business outcomes.
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

SAFe Agile & Scrum

Cross-functional collaboration

Business case development

Risk management & compliance

Job description

New York, New York, United States

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 Cloud Technologies (AWS/GCP), DevSecOps, Platform Engineering. 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 by leveraging superior verbal and written communication sjills.
• 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