Jobs at Guardian Life

Leads Guardian’s ServiceNow Risk technology strategy, roadmap, governance, operations, and modernization across IRM, BCM, TPRM, and MRM modules. Partners with Risk, technology, security, architecture, business, and vendor teams to align investments with regulatory and business needs. Oversees platform lifecycle management, releases, incidents, changes, technical debt, transformation programs, delivery teams, contractors, and strategic partners.

Leads architecture, solution design, engineering direction, and modernization across Guardian’s annuity technology ecosystem. The role guides policy administration, servicing, distribution integrations, data, digital experiences, and enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include defining technology roadmaps and guardrails, modernizing legacy systems, developing API- and event-driven cloud-native solutions, improving reliability and engineering practices, enabling third-party distribution, and mentoring technical teams. The Principal Engineer partners with business, product, architecture, engineering, and external stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, resilient platforms.

Leads enterprise architecture strategy, standards, governance, target-state designs, and modernization roadmaps across applications, data, AI, cloud, security, platforms, and integration. Advises executives and technology teams on material decisions, resolves cross-domain architecture issues, incorporates risk and resilience requirements, and guides federated execution. The role also mentors architects, supports architecture operating-model maturity, and may assist with major production incidents.

Lead design and implementation of cloud-native microservices and APIs for a large Group Benefits Absence platform. Collaborate with architects, product, QA, and operations to deliver, deploy, monitor, and support production services. Mentor team members, drive SDLC governance, coordinate releases and enterprise changes, and troubleshoot issues using logging and monitoring tools.

The Technical Product Owner/Engineer drives modernization initiatives, translating business needs into technical specifications while collaborating with engineering teams and managing the development backlog in an Agile environment.

Provide hands-on AV and collaboration support for conference rooms, executive spaces, and enterprise events. Support Microsoft Teams Rooms, troubleshoot live meetings, perform pre-meeting checks, manage event setup/teardown, perform maintenance and monitoring, collaborate on standards and deployments, liaise with vendors, and ensure security/compliance of AV systems across multiple sites.

Leads enterprise Microsoft SQL Server architecture, governance, administration, modernization, cloud migrations, performance tuning, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and automation. Designs resilient database platforms across on-premises and AWS environments, establishes technical standards, supports critical production systems, manages incidents and audits, and mentors database professionals. Develops Infrastructure-as-Code and automation using Terraform, PowerShell, SQL scripts, and CI/CD tools while partnering with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and business teams.

Lead end-to-end product lifecycle for CRM and sales enablement, gather and prioritize stakeholder requirements, manage backlog and user stories, analyze KPIs to drive data-informed decisions, enable digital transformation and AI opportunities, coach junior team members, run training and change management, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve sales processes and mitigate risks.

Lead design, implementation, and continuous improvement of identity governance capabilities (IGA/IAM). Manage provisioning/deprovisioning, access reviews, vendor performance, integrations with SailPoint/CyberArk/Okta, regulatory audit readiness, reporting/analytics, and partner with stakeholders including HR, cybersecurity, compliance, and AI teams to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions.

Senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing a cloud-based wealth technology strategy and platform for Park Avenue and Guardian Wealth Partners. Lead architecture, engineering, data, integrations, vendor management, and governance to deliver planning, onboarding, portfolio management, reporting, and secure operations while partnering with business, risk, compliance, and operations to drive advisor productivity and client experience.

Lead design, build, and operate Guardian's cloud and developer platforms with primary ownership of Amazon EKS. Implement automation, CI/CD, IaC, and security-by-default patterns. Troubleshoot Linux, container, and networking issues; manage upgrades, AMIs, and add-ons; integrate observability and security scanning; lead incident response and mentor engineers to improve platform reliability and developer productivity.

Design and own product- and team-level solution architectures within a value stream. Collaborate with product owners, tech leads, and enterprise/platform teams to ensure scalable, secure, and standards-aligned solutions. Drive integration, cloud/hybrid architecture, proofs-of-concept, technical guidance, dependency resolution, and mentor engineers. Support production incidents and continuously reduce technical debt.

Provide hands-on support for executives and audiovisual systems, manage device lifecycle, and ensure compliance with security standards while collaborating with internal teams and vendors.

Own and prioritize the wealth management product backlog, collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements, maintain user stories and acceptance criteria, participate in Agile ceremonies, track delivery progress, and support Agile product practices under senior guidance.

Design, develop, unit test and maintain features for a business-critical website as a full-stack developer. Collaborate with product owners, security, QA and stakeholders within a SAFe agile team. Follow release/build/configuration management and project governance, maintain documentation, and work on microservices and front-end technologies.

Lead enterprise data solution architecture by defining reference architectures, reusable patterns, and governance. Design scalable modern data platforms and pipelines, enable data product operating model, embed security and compliance, drive AI-enabled solutions, mentor architects, and align cross-functional stakeholders to improve reuse, data quality, and delivery speed across insurance domains.

Lead enterprise-level data solution architecture: define standards, reference architectures, and guardrails; design scalable modern data platforms and data products; embed governance, observability, and AI-enabled capabilities; influence stakeholders and mentor architects to drive adoption and reuse across insurance business functions.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, high-performance public-facing web applications using React/Next and Node on AWS. Architect systems, enforce best practices (APIs, testing, CI/CD, security), mentor engineers, collaborate with product/design/data, and drive business-impacting features.

Lead enterprise observability strategy, platform ownership, and operational intelligence. Build and run monitoring, telemetry, tracing, AIOps, and analytics capabilities to reduce MTTD/MTTR, improve signal quality, and drive reliability. Partner across infrastructure, cloud, security, and engineering; manage vendors, roadmap, and a team of observability and platform engineers.

Lead enterprise solution architecture for digital channels (CRM, marketing tech, customer service, UX, mobile). Define standards, reference architectures, guardrails, and reusable patterns. Drive Salesforce, Adobe, and contact-center platform strategy, cloud integration, AI-native design, and engineering enablement. Influence distributed teams, mentor architects, ensure security, scalability, resilience, and production readiness while partnering with EA, product, security, and platform teams.