Hybrid - 3 days per week
Location Designation
When you join New York Life, you're 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'll 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.
This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely Monday & Friday / on site Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
We recently moved into a new building offering the following...
- Dedicated private workspace.
- State-of-the-art IT facilities and gigabit workstation connectivity with wi-fi available everywhere on campus.
- Ergonomically designed LED office lighting, with incredible natural light due to the wrap-around windows on all floors.
The Integration Architect provides technical expertise, leadership and governance spanning multiple platforms, focusing on integrating applications and data via SOA services and MuleSoft ESB (and related) technologies.
Researches, designs, and implements complex technical solutions supporting business capabilities required by NYL Direct.
Interacts with business partners and other Systems department personnel as the Solutions Architect to design comprehensive technology solutions that are aligned with the business objectives in overall support of the NYL/Tampa Operations business customers.
- Provides technical expertise on complex projects.
- Evaluates and analyzes new technologies to address business requirements.
- Applies technical knowledge to develop, implement, support and maintain the technical components of the Infrastructure.
- Assists in cross-training team members in the Infrastructure system components and improving team members' technical skills.
- Maintains an awareness of upcoming technological advances, product offerings and their implications to the existing Infrastructure.
- Directs independent technical research of new Infrastructure components.
- Understand, advocate for and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
- Analyze enterprise business drivers to determine corresponding change requirements.
- Analyze the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
- Analyze technology industry and market trends and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
- Sell the architecture process, its outcome, and ongoing results.
- Define the principles to guide solution decisions for the enterprise.
- Design and lead the implementation of solutions based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.
- Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solution compliance.
- Develop road maps of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state.
- Coordinate solution architecture implementation activities.
- Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software products, as well as the design of standard software configurations.
- Consult with application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the solution architecture to accommodate project needs.
- Evaluate the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of solution implementations.
- Produce solution architecture design and analysis documentation.
- Work closely with the program management office (PMO) to ensure alignment of plans and deliverables.
- Assist in cross-training dev team members in application system components, improving team members' technical skills and in maintaining current standards.
- Provide advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution for system issues as required.
- Perform other assignments as assigned to comply with Corporate Information mission, and to enable the Company to increase revenue, to become easier to do business with, to reduce unit costs, to reduce time to market and to increase customer and agent satisfaction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, and at least seven years of applicable application development experience.
- Experience with distributed architecture frameworks and cross platform integration.
- Detailed understanding of development methodologies and solution architectures.
- Proven technical experience with Software Development and processes.
- Strong analysis and design skills with a focus on system design and flow and appropriate information security practices.
- Experience with designing and implementing high volume, mission critical production systems.
- In-depth understanding of SOA, Web services, Messaging (MQ) and XML, SOAP/WSDL and REST/WADL.
- 7+ years' experience in architecting & designing enterprise level software products.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with distributed (Java/.NET) programming languages and development platforms.
- 3+ years of MuleSoft ESB application design and development experience.
- Experience with Devops and Continuous Integration processes and systems.
- Ability to practice positive employee relations and develop self and others.
- Ability to perform employee mentoring, coaching, counseling and corrective actions as necessary.
- Proven technical experience with Software Development processes.
- Self-motivated to identify, analyze and independently work to find solutions and follow issues.
- Possess excellent judgment and analytical skills including detailed planning and project management.
- Resourcefulness in accomplishing objectives and completing tasks.
- Independent decision making since most duties require evaluating a number of elements and alternatives generally involving extensive research.
- Ability to perform duties with limited supervision.
- Ability to perform assignments without review and keep supervisor informed of progress and results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred
- Knowledge of Life Insurance, Marketing and/or Telemarketing systems and applications
- Knowledge and experience with life insurance business application packages
- Experience with
- Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), especially PegaRULES Process Commander (PegaSystems)
- ACORD Life and Annuity XML standard.
- AWS and/or Azure-based cloud environments
This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely Monday & Friday / on site Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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$117,500-$170.000
Salary range
Exempt
Overtime eligible
Yes
Discretionary bonus eligible
No
Sales bonus eligible
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