Corporate Vice President - Cyber Resiliency Lead

• Review and recommend cyber resilience recovery strategies and options and assist with the implementation of recovery solutions.
• Champion cyber resilience objectives in collaboration with infrastructure enterprise technology risk and resiliency teams.
• Act as a thought leader on cyber resilience trends and industry best practices.
• Develop implement and maintain Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and other relevant metrics to measure cyber resilience program effectiveness maturity and alignment with organizational goals.

• Assess and enhance recovery readiness for core technology services including (but not limited to) identity and access management (IAM) network DNS endpoint detection and response (EDR) and cloud platforms.
• Develop recovery tiering and technical recovery playbooks for cyber incidents (e.g. ransomware data corruption destructive attacks).
• Support impact assessments for emerging technologies (e.g. AI zero trust hybrid cloud) on cyber resilience.

• Lead decisioning and implementation of clean room and isolated recovery environments for rapid reconstitution.
• Define access tooling and procedures for maintaining and validating clean-room readiness.
• Implement (or partner with teams to support implementation) tools and solutions to be used for the recovery environment (e.g. cyber vault recovery orchestrations forensics)

• Enhance DR testing procedures to include cyber-disruption scenarios and recovery validation in partnership with enterprise resilience enterprise technology and business partners.
• Define minimum viable business and technology service levels for post-incident operation.
• Coordinate and lead cyber-focused tabletop exercises cyber disruption scenarios and recovery simulations for critical systems. and playbook validation.
• Coordinate post-mortem reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future planning.
• Partner with Enterprise Resiliency to assess business function-level preparedness
• Coordinate development of annual cyber resilience program objectives and schedules for annual recovery playbook maintenance and update exercises and independent review and validation.
• Develop and coordinate cyber resilience program artifacts including reporting tracking and monitoring.
• Provide expertise and support to management and recovery functions as requested when business disruption occurs.
• Work with critical third-party vendors to ensure that business requirements are addressed.

• Define standards for cyber readiness recovery point/time objectives (RPO/RTO) under attack conditions and cyber crisis escalation in partnership with enterprise risk management.
• Participate in governance bodies related to resilience risk and incident response.

• 15+ years in cybersecurity technology risk or IT disaster recovery roles
• Deep understanding and experience in cybersecurity operations incident response infrastructure resilience and threat scenarios (e.g. ransomware destructive malware).
• Experience developing recovery architecture and procedures for hybrid environments (cloud/on-prem).
• Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF ISO 27031 and FFIEC Business Continuity Handbook.
• Strong leadership collaboration and communication skills across executive technical and operational levels. Prior experience with disaster recovery tools (e.g. Cohesity Dell Cyber Recovery AWS/Azure/GCP disaster recovery solutions).
• Excellent communication skills and experience in reporting progress status and outcomes to management.

What We Do

At New York Life our 180-year legacy of integrity mutuality and financial strength fuels a future defined by bold transformation. As the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S. we operate on behalf of our policy owners—not shareholders. That structure allows us to take a long-term view investing in people purpose and innovation that endures. Guided by a clear enterprise vision to become a technology- data- and AI-powered company we’re modernizing our platforms rearchitecting experiences and embedding intelligence across our products and services. Our mission has always been about helping people through life’s most meaningful moments. Today technology is amplifying that mission—enabling us to serve clients advisors and communities in more personalized proactive ways. With a diversified business portfolio spanning insurance investments retirement group benefits and direct-to-consumer offerings New York Life delivers the stability of a Fortune 100 company with the agility of one that’s continuously evolving. We’re powered by a values-led culture inclusive teams and a shared belief that when our people thrive so does our company. Here tradition fuels momentum—and your ideas energy and growth power what’s next.

Why Work With Us

New York Life is transforming from the inside out—blending 180 years of trust with the velocity of innovation. What makes us different is our culture: grounded in integrity humanity and shared success—values that show up in how we work lead and grow. If you want a place where innovation has purpose—build what's next with us.

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