Leads end-to-end technology strategy, engineering, integration, analytics, and AI capabilities for NEXUS, an enterprise Finance decision-support experience. Owns technology roadmaps, architecture, delivery, security, controls, production readiness, and measurable outcomes. Builds multidisciplinary teams, integrates capabilities across Finance workstreams, partners with senior stakeholders, manages strategic resources, and advances intelligent, persona-aware experiences using generative AI and agentic technologies.
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Technology, Data, AI and Ventures:
Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.
Business Overview
Enterprise Plan to Perform (EPP) is one of New York Life's strategic transformations, focused on reimagining how the enterprise plans, projects, understands, and manages financial performance. EPP spans Expense Management, Planning & Projections, Performance Management, Financial Modeling, NEXUS, and related enterprise capabilities, bringing together business-process reimagination, modern technology, data, analytics, automation, and AI.
Role Overview
The Corporate Vice President, NEXUS Technology provides Technology leadership for NEXUS, the common cross-EPP intelligent experience that brings together capabilities, information and insights from across Enterprise Plan to Perform. The leader is accountable for shaping and delivering the Technology capabilities that enable executives, Finance leaders and practitioners to understand performance, explore drivers and scenarios, interact with AI-enabled intelligence and take action through a coherent experience.
The role is accountable for the end-to-end Technology outcome for NEXUS, spanning application experience, orchestration, integration, engineering and delivery, and the effective incorporation of data, analytics, AI, architecture, controls and enterprise capabilities.
This is broader than an application development or program management role. The leader is expected to combine business understanding, systems thinking, technology and engineering judgment, and transformation leadership; challenge current-state constraints. The leader ensures NEXUS evolves as a coherent capability that integrates effectively with the broader EPP ecosystem and enterprise Technology landscape.
What You'll Do
NEXUS Technology Strategy & Ownership
• Lead the end-to-end NEXUS Technology strategy, roadmap, engineering and delivery across application experience, orchestration, integration, analytics, AI and agentic capabilities.
• Ensure NEXUS evolves beyond a dashboard or presentation layer into an intelligent decision-support experience that proactively surfaces insights, explains drivers, supports exploration and scenarios, and enables action.
• Lead NEXUS outcome teams spanning executive and practitioner experiences, conversational and agentic interaction, proactive insights, cross-domain workflows, and reusable experience capabilities.
• Integrate deterministic metrics and analytics with agentic retrieval, reasoning, explanation, and workflow orchestration using appropriate enterprise controls and traceability.
• Establish persona-aware experiences that provide appropriate depth and interaction for executives, Finance leaders, FP&A practitioners, and business users without fragmenting the underlying product.
• Own the technical integration of capabilities supplied by Expense, Planning & Projections, Performance Technology, Financial Modeling, and shared enterprise services.
Technology, AI & Engineering Leadership
• Own the target-state technology strategy and roadmap for the domain, including application, integration, data, analytics, AI, automation, and engineering implications.
• Drive pragmatic use of rapid prototyping, specification-driven development, AI-assisted engineering, automated testing, and continuous business validation.
• Promote systems thinking so solution decisions account for upstream and downstream impacts across workflows, data, architecture, security, controls, and operations.
• Identify where generative AI and agentic capabilities can materially reimagine workflows, analysis, decision support, and execution rather than simply automate existing steps.
• Maintain strong standards for engineering quality, scalability, resiliency, responsible AI, observability, production readiness, and technical sustainability.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Interfaces
• Partner with Performance Management and the relevant Technology teams to integrate underlying performance capabilities, metrics and analytics into the common NEXUS experience.
• Partner with EPP Workstream Technology Leads to integrate workstream capabilities into NEXUS without duplicating workstream ownership.
• Partner with Solution Engineering & Architecture and Data Architecture & Engineering to establish reusable application, agent, integration and data patterns, including semantics, provenance, traceability and deterministic versus agentic access patterns.
• Partner with Business Discovery & Solution Strategy leaders to translate future-state business intent into executable technology capabilities and roadmaps.
• Lead multidisciplinary outcome teams and coordinate NYL engineers, forward deployed engineers, federated resources, domain SMEs, and strategic partner engineers.
• Build trusted relationships with senior Finance, business, and Technology stakeholders and create transparency around priorities, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
Investment, Workforce & Delivery Accountability
• Shape NEXUS Technology priorities and sequencing, and work with Integrated Delivery to identify resource, capacity and investment needs based on business value, dependencies, risk and delivery readiness.
• Coordinate strategic Technology and engineering partners as part of the integrated NEXUS team, with clear expectations for quality, outcomes and knowledge transfer.
• Establish transparent measures of delivery health, adoption, quality, and value realization and use them to drive decisions and accountability.
• Ensure security, privacy, controls, auditability, and operational readiness are incorporated from inception through production.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
• Build and develop high-performing Technology teams with strong engineering and domain capabilities.
• Lead effectively through direct and matrixed relationships across Business and Technology teams.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, engineering discipline, innovation, accountability and continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring
Required Experience
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in technology, software engineering, solution delivery, digital transformation, or related disciplines, including significant leadership responsibility in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience owning end-to-end technology capabilities or major transformation domains from strategy through architecture, engineering, implementation, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success operating in federated or matrixed enterprises and influencing senior business and technology stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Broad technology and engineering background spanning modern application development, APIs and integration, data and analytics, cloud platforms, enterprise architecture, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, agentic technologies, and AI-assisted engineering and their practical application to enterprise workflows and software delivery.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technology teams and managing strategic partners, contractors, and federated resources.
• Experience operating within enterprise Risk, Security, Compliance, Audit, and control environments.
• Strong analytical, communication, prioritization, and executive-influence capabilities.
Required Skills
• Cross-Workstream Technology Leadership - Leads an integrated Technology capability that brings together experiences and capabilities owned across multiple enterprise workstreams.
• Technology & Engineering Judgment - Evaluates solution approaches, architecture and data implications, engineering tradeoffs, and production risks.
• Systems Thinking - Understands interactions across process, applications, data, analytics, architecture, controls, and operating models.
• AI-Enabled Transformation - Identifies where AI and agentic capabilities can materially change workflows, decisions, and delivery economics.
• Executive Communication & Influence - Creates clarity, drives decisions, and influences senior stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Strategic Planning & Execution - Converts future-state ambition into prioritized roadmaps, investments, sequencing, and executable outcomes.
• Enterprise Delivery Discipline - Applies SDLC, Agile and Lean principles pragmatically with strong dependency, release, and production-readiness management.
• Talent & Partner Leadership - Builds strong teams and integrates internal, federated, and external engineering capacity around common outcomes.
• People Management - Develops and empowers talent through clear expectations, actionable feedback, effective coaching, and accountability, while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team environment.
Preferred Experience
• Experience leading complex digital products, enterprise decision-support platforms, analytics experiences, AI-enabled applications, or cross-domain technology products.
• Strong experience with agentic/conversational experiences, modern application architecture, APIs, orchestration, analytics, and AI-enabled user experiences.
• Experience designing products for multiple personas and integrating capabilities owned by multiple enterprise domains.
Why This Role
This role provides end-to-end Technology leadership for NEXUS, a cross-EPP intelligent experience that brings together capabilities, information and insights from multiple Finance workstreams. The role requires strong product and engineering leadership, cross-workstream integration, modern application and AI capabilities, and close partnership across Business, Architecture, Data and Technology teams to create a coherent enterprise experience.
Job Level: LEVELMG2
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $147,500-$211,000
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.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.
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 hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
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 the Foundation. 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: 95174
#BI-Hybrid
Technology, Data, AI and Ventures:
Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.
Business Overview
Enterprise Plan to Perform (EPP) is one of New York Life's strategic transformations, focused on reimagining how the enterprise plans, projects, understands, and manages financial performance. EPP spans Expense Management, Planning & Projections, Performance Management, Financial Modeling, NEXUS, and related enterprise capabilities, bringing together business-process reimagination, modern technology, data, analytics, automation, and AI.
Role Overview
The Corporate Vice President, NEXUS Technology provides Technology leadership for NEXUS, the common cross-EPP intelligent experience that brings together capabilities, information and insights from across Enterprise Plan to Perform. The leader is accountable for shaping and delivering the Technology capabilities that enable executives, Finance leaders and practitioners to understand performance, explore drivers and scenarios, interact with AI-enabled intelligence and take action through a coherent experience.
The role is accountable for the end-to-end Technology outcome for NEXUS, spanning application experience, orchestration, integration, engineering and delivery, and the effective incorporation of data, analytics, AI, architecture, controls and enterprise capabilities.
This is broader than an application development or program management role. The leader is expected to combine business understanding, systems thinking, technology and engineering judgment, and transformation leadership; challenge current-state constraints. The leader ensures NEXUS evolves as a coherent capability that integrates effectively with the broader EPP ecosystem and enterprise Technology landscape.
What You'll Do
NEXUS Technology Strategy & Ownership
• Lead the end-to-end NEXUS Technology strategy, roadmap, engineering and delivery across application experience, orchestration, integration, analytics, AI and agentic capabilities.
• Ensure NEXUS evolves beyond a dashboard or presentation layer into an intelligent decision-support experience that proactively surfaces insights, explains drivers, supports exploration and scenarios, and enables action.
• Lead NEXUS outcome teams spanning executive and practitioner experiences, conversational and agentic interaction, proactive insights, cross-domain workflows, and reusable experience capabilities.
• Integrate deterministic metrics and analytics with agentic retrieval, reasoning, explanation, and workflow orchestration using appropriate enterprise controls and traceability.
• Establish persona-aware experiences that provide appropriate depth and interaction for executives, Finance leaders, FP&A practitioners, and business users without fragmenting the underlying product.
• Own the technical integration of capabilities supplied by Expense, Planning & Projections, Performance Technology, Financial Modeling, and shared enterprise services.
Technology, AI & Engineering Leadership
• Own the target-state technology strategy and roadmap for the domain, including application, integration, data, analytics, AI, automation, and engineering implications.
• Drive pragmatic use of rapid prototyping, specification-driven development, AI-assisted engineering, automated testing, and continuous business validation.
• Promote systems thinking so solution decisions account for upstream and downstream impacts across workflows, data, architecture, security, controls, and operations.
• Identify where generative AI and agentic capabilities can materially reimagine workflows, analysis, decision support, and execution rather than simply automate existing steps.
• Maintain strong standards for engineering quality, scalability, resiliency, responsible AI, observability, production readiness, and technical sustainability.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Interfaces
• Partner with Performance Management and the relevant Technology teams to integrate underlying performance capabilities, metrics and analytics into the common NEXUS experience.
• Partner with EPP Workstream Technology Leads to integrate workstream capabilities into NEXUS without duplicating workstream ownership.
• Partner with Solution Engineering & Architecture and Data Architecture & Engineering to establish reusable application, agent, integration and data patterns, including semantics, provenance, traceability and deterministic versus agentic access patterns.
• Partner with Business Discovery & Solution Strategy leaders to translate future-state business intent into executable technology capabilities and roadmaps.
• Lead multidisciplinary outcome teams and coordinate NYL engineers, forward deployed engineers, federated resources, domain SMEs, and strategic partner engineers.
• Build trusted relationships with senior Finance, business, and Technology stakeholders and create transparency around priorities, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
Investment, Workforce & Delivery Accountability
• Shape NEXUS Technology priorities and sequencing, and work with Integrated Delivery to identify resource, capacity and investment needs based on business value, dependencies, risk and delivery readiness.
• Coordinate strategic Technology and engineering partners as part of the integrated NEXUS team, with clear expectations for quality, outcomes and knowledge transfer.
• Establish transparent measures of delivery health, adoption, quality, and value realization and use them to drive decisions and accountability.
• Ensure security, privacy, controls, auditability, and operational readiness are incorporated from inception through production.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
• Build and develop high-performing Technology teams with strong engineering and domain capabilities.
• Lead effectively through direct and matrixed relationships across Business and Technology teams.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, engineering discipline, innovation, accountability and continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring
Required Experience
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in technology, software engineering, solution delivery, digital transformation, or related disciplines, including significant leadership responsibility in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience owning end-to-end technology capabilities or major transformation domains from strategy through architecture, engineering, implementation, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success operating in federated or matrixed enterprises and influencing senior business and technology stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Broad technology and engineering background spanning modern application development, APIs and integration, data and analytics, cloud platforms, enterprise architecture, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, agentic technologies, and AI-assisted engineering and their practical application to enterprise workflows and software delivery.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technology teams and managing strategic partners, contractors, and federated resources.
• Experience operating within enterprise Risk, Security, Compliance, Audit, and control environments.
• Strong analytical, communication, prioritization, and executive-influence capabilities.
Required Skills
• Cross-Workstream Technology Leadership - Leads an integrated Technology capability that brings together experiences and capabilities owned across multiple enterprise workstreams.
• Technology & Engineering Judgment - Evaluates solution approaches, architecture and data implications, engineering tradeoffs, and production risks.
• Systems Thinking - Understands interactions across process, applications, data, analytics, architecture, controls, and operating models.
• AI-Enabled Transformation - Identifies where AI and agentic capabilities can materially change workflows, decisions, and delivery economics.
• Executive Communication & Influence - Creates clarity, drives decisions, and influences senior stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Strategic Planning & Execution - Converts future-state ambition into prioritized roadmaps, investments, sequencing, and executable outcomes.
• Enterprise Delivery Discipline - Applies SDLC, Agile and Lean principles pragmatically with strong dependency, release, and production-readiness management.
• Talent & Partner Leadership - Builds strong teams and integrates internal, federated, and external engineering capacity around common outcomes.
• People Management - Develops and empowers talent through clear expectations, actionable feedback, effective coaching, and accountability, while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team environment.
Preferred Experience
• Experience leading complex digital products, enterprise decision-support platforms, analytics experiences, AI-enabled applications, or cross-domain technology products.
• Strong experience with agentic/conversational experiences, modern application architecture, APIs, orchestration, analytics, and AI-enabled user experiences.
• Experience designing products for multiple personas and integrating capabilities owned by multiple enterprise domains.
Why This Role
This role provides end-to-end Technology leadership for NEXUS, a cross-EPP intelligent experience that brings together capabilities, information and insights from multiple Finance workstreams. The role requires strong product and engineering leadership, cross-workstream integration, modern application and AI capabilities, and close partnership across Business, Architecture, Data and Technology teams to create a coherent enterprise experience.
Job Level: LEVELMG2
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $147,500-$211,000
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.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.
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 hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
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 the Foundation. 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: 95174
#BI-Hybrid
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