Senior Associate - Solution Architect

• Develop end-to-end solution architectures that align with Insurance Solutions' multi-year strategic roadmap and enterprise architecture standards.
• Create architectural blueprints integration patterns and modernization strategies for legacy platforms ensuring scalability resilience security and interoperability.
• Lead conceptual logical and physical architecture design applying modern engineering practices (APIs microservices event-driven architecture cloud-native design containerization).
• Ensure architectural decisions support enterprise priorities such as data accessibility cost optimization risk reduction and improved customer and agent experience.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams throughout design build testing and deployment activities.
• Serve as the technical authority for large cross-functional initiatives with complex dependencies across Life LTC DI and Business Solutions.
• Partner with delivery leads and product owners to ensure solution integrity and architectural alignment throughout the development lifecycle.
• Identify and drive reductions in technical debt through structured modernization roadmaps refactoring strategies and improved engineering practices.

• Architect modernization pathways for core insurance systems including re-platforming refactoring cloud migration and transition to managed services where appropriate.
• Define integration strategies (APIs event streams messaging service orchestration abstraction layers) that enable flexible and future-ready interoperability across applications and channels.
• Promote standard patterns reusable components and shared services to reduce complexity and improve speed-to-market.
• Ensure data and integration approaches enable holistic customer views and support analytics reporting and AI-driven insights.

• Maintain expertise in emerging technologies including Generative AI Agentic AI automation and advanced analytics and assess their applicability to insurance and wealth use cases.
• Evaluate vendors platforms and frameworks and make recommendations for responsible adoption that balance innovation with risk compliance and operational readiness.
• Partner with data AI and cybersecurity teams to ensure solutions are secure compliant and aligned with enterprise guardrails.
• Educate engineering teams and business partners on relevant technology trends and the impact on customer agent and operational experiences.

• Collaborate with business leaders to understand objectives translate them into technical and architectural requirements and articulate solution options and trade-offs.
• Prioritize architectural investments that drive measurable business outcomes including growth efficiency resilience and experience.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders.
• Build trust-based relationships with product operations risk and compliance partners across the organization.

• Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture principles security patterns and development best practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of reference architectures technical standards and architecture review processes.
• Advocate for consistency in solution design documentation and quality across teams and initiatives.
• Support the establishment and refinement of architecture guardrails that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining control and compliance.

• 8+ years of experience designing architecting and delivering technology solutions in the financial services industry; insurance experience strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of both modern architectures (SaaS PaaS APIs microservices event-driven patterns containerization cloud-native designs) and legacy environments (e.g. mainframe policy administration systems batch processing DB2/Oracle monolithic applications). Hands-on experience in both distributed systems and legacy systems is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with architects engineers product leaders and senior business stakeholders across a large complex organization.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing integration patterns including APIs service meshes events/streams and abstraction layers to decouple legacy systems from modern digital experiences.
• Proven experience in performing impact assessment (architecture systems and functional) in enterprise scale eco-systems with varying degree of multi-tier architectures enterprise data masters hybrid cloud environments.
• Hands-on technical delivery background (e.g. software engineer integration developer systems engineer cloud engineer) with the ability to engage at code configuration or pipeline level when needed.
• Familiarity with emerging technology trends including Generative and Agentic AI automation frameworks and advanced analytics with the ability to assess feasibility and business value.
• Experience in performing assessment to help build vs. buy vs. partner decisions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field or equivalent hands-on technical experience.

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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