Senior Associate, Sr Developer Engineer

Location Designation:Hybrid - 3 days per week

When you join New York Life, you are joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You will have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

Location: New York City office

This role is hybrid (3 days in the office with Mondays & Fridays working remote)

At the heart of New York Life is a commitment to be there for our customers when they need us-whether today decades into the future. We have delivered on that promise for over 175 years by investing wisely, growing portfolio of strategic businesses, and remaining true to our mission as a mutual company, accountable only to our customers, not to outside investors. For our customers, which means having the confidence that comes with knowing they can build a better future for themselves and those they love.

As a mutual company, we are fully aligned with our policy owners, not with outside investors or Wall Street. This allows us to focus on delivering lifelong value to our clients, including sharing our success with eligible participating policy owners through non-guaranteed dividends, which we have paid for 166 consecutive years.

People come to work at New York Life to contribute to the financial goals of millions of families and businesses each day. We have a diverse, nationwide workforce that allows us to support the communities where we work. Our purpose-driven mind-set has attracted people who want to do good and has resulted in great success for our company and our customers.

Business / Technology Summary

The Foundational Business at New York Life provides life insurance and investment products to our customers through a network of over 12,000 licensed agents. Technology and digital are central to our agent, customer and employee needs and as these evolve our Technology organization is transforming rapidly.

New York Life is embarking on a significant digital evolution which demands robust digital capabilities, exceptional user experience and connected data. To execute on our strategic plans, we have launched Blueprint. At the heart of this program sits our Operational Model consisting of Value Streams (VS) and Centers for Enablement (C4E) powered by our Scaled-Agile delivery execution model.

Role Summary

We are seeking an energetic and passionate senior DevSecOps engineer with GenAI expertise to design and execute our company's modern digital transformation strategy. As a key member of our core system team, you will work with talented engineers, architects, data scientists and end users to reimagine, design and build the next generation of Insurance applications and solutions in the cloud leveraging ancient and modern technologies and platforms including AWS, APIs, and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

You will assist in the design, development, and deployment of scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems, taking advantage of leading-edge technologies through experimentation and iterative refinement. You will assist other team members in building and executing automation that effectively and repeatably ensures quality, security, integrity, and maintainability of our solutions. You will also be responsible for the evaluation of key attributes of existing application architectures, evolve and enhance the foundation, participate in product ideation and technology stack evaluation and recommendations.

In addition, this position will work with our various Centers for Enablement (C4Es) to provide two-way feedback on how we can improve the overall engagement and services between C4Es and Value Streams aligning and delivering to common goals that drive increased levels of business value, in an accelerated manner while meeting and exceeding Technology's

Key Responsibilities

Engages in collaborative relationships across architecture, product management, data, and product delivery teams to design, implement solutions based on defined business challenges and outcomes.

Build best-in-industry Digital experiences that are truly omni-channel, agile and scalable leveraging leading-edge technology and reusable components and services.

Apply software engineering principles to develop scalable, reliable and robust solutions, identify self-service opportunities and solutions to bring quantifiable value for Value streams.

Apply Generative AI experience to enhance Developer experience and Developer productivity.

Enable continuous integration and deployment automation solutions across various applications within Value streams as per technology stack.

Accountable for designing, building, and optimizing automation systems that help to execute business web and data infrastructure platforms.

Ensuring cross-platform optimization for automation of mobile application development

Ensuring responsiveness of applications while adhering to security, risk and controls standards and patterns

Designing and developing APIs as well as consuming pre-built, available ones

Participate on scrum teams working in short sprints and ensure on time delivery with high quality.

Create and maintain solution documents and artifacts to capture current state.

Troubleshoot issues and work with team to identify and address problems.

Maintaining high degree of knowledge and expertise in cloud-based technologies contributing to go forward best practices, standards, and patterns

Active participant in relevant communities of practice to exchange ideas and knowledge

Create and contribute to a teams' ways of working that result in high performance, mind-set of experimentation and demonstration of the art of what is possible to iterate and deliver solutions more efficiently and beyond expectation.

Required Skills:

Strong, demonstratable firsthand engineering experience with DevSecOps in implementing CI/CD pipelines on Java, Dot Net, python, Databases and other technologies.

Excellent Experience in automation on AWS using Terraform.

Excellent experience on EKS/ECR and related containerization framework

Experience with scripting languages like Python, bash, YAML, Groovy, Jenkins templates.

Experience in building/deploying Generative AI RAG use cases.

Proficiency in developing common reusable templates and patterns for various technologies to enhance Developer experience

Significant knowledge of AWS systems, including EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Lambda, Security Groups, VPCs, Inspector, EKS and containers etc.

Build and maintain an AWS cloud infrastructure architecture aligning security, compliance, performance and resilience.

Experience in RBAC, SSO integrations and designing/installing tools by considering performance & providing scale up solutions on AWS.

Experience with database technologies for structured and unstructured data

Experience with relevant code repository and project tools such as GitHub, JIRA, Confluence

Ability to integrate APIs, create automated test cases, perform Unit Testing (UT) and System Integration testing (SIT)

Experience with developing Cloud-native applications and incredibly good understanding of Cloud architecture and best practices

Solid understanding of Agile application delivery methodologies and release management activities

Shared accountability in the team's ability to make and deliver on their decisions and commitments.

Detail oriented individual with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Ability to be self-directed, a good collaborator and the capacity for effective time management.

Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and business teams.

Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new business domains and technologies.

Desired Skills:

Solid understanding of the insurance, wealth management or financial services industry

Knowledge of scripting tools on multiple platforms preferred.

Strong hands-on experience on DevSecOps platforms like Harness.io a plus

Ability to incorporate vendor components in the application build-out.

Extensive hands-on development experience with AWS Cloud and Storage services are desirable.

Experience in developing solutions leveraging LLMs a plus.

Knowledge of emerging technologies like Agentic AI a plus

Education / Training

Bachelor's degree in computer science or an Engineering discipline

Certification in DevSecOps, Generative AI a plus.

Certification in data management (structure and unstructured), and/or cloud architecture or engineering plus

Previous Experience

Two or more years of design and developing production grade software components and solutions.

5-7 years' work experience

Additional Attributes

Trusted and respected team member putting objectives of the team over individuals.

Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business stakeholders, and able to debate and challenge in a professional and diplomatic way.

Highly Collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.

Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.

More interested in achieving targeted business outcomes and what is best for the organization than in personal preferences, or in vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

Composed in the face of opposition to technology principles, governance and standards.

Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making, with a bias towards simplifying processes.

art of what is possible to iterate and deliver solutions more efficiently and beyond expectation.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range:$95,000-$162,500

Overtime eligible:Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Sales bonus eligible:No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Diversity Promise

We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.

Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by theFoundation.We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

Job Requisition ID:91308