New York Life Insurance Company · 2 weeks ago
Senior Associate - Insurance Solutions Architect
New York,New York,United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$124K/yr - $177K/yr
7+ years expNew York Life Insurance Company is evolving into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization. The Insurance Solution Architect will play a critical role in shaping the company's technology evolution across various insurance domains, providing technical leadership, designing scalable solutions, and ensuring a seamless customer experience.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
Develop end-to-end solution architectures aligned 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 using modern engineering practices (APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, 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
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
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) to enable flexible, 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, making 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 their impact on customer, agent, and operational experiences
Collaborate with business leaders to understand objectives, translate them into architectural and technical 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 with 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
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering technology solutions in the financial services industry; insurance or wealth management experience strongly preferred
Prior 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
Deep understanding of both legacy environments (e.g., mainframe, policy administration systems, batch processing, DB2/Oracle, monolithic applications) and modern architectures (SaaS, PaaS, APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, containerization, cloud-native designs)
Proven experience architecting and implementing integration patterns, including APIs, service meshes, events/streams, and abstraction layers to decouple legacy systems from modern digital experiences
Familiarity with emerging technology trends, including Generative and Agentic AI, automation frameworks, and advanced analytics, with the ability to assess feasibility and business value
Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with architects, engineers, product leaders, and senior business stakeholders across a large, complex organization
Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts
Benefits
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Company
New York Life Insurance Company
For over 180 years, we’ve helped turn your biggest dreams into milestones that last a lifetime.
10001+ employees
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Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
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