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The Role
Designs and owns scalable analytics engineering solutions, including dbt transformation pipelines, dimensional models, data products, testing, governance, deployment, and monitoring across Databricks, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery. Develops advanced SQL and Python transformations, optimizes performance, improves CI/CD and SDLC practices, builds semantic-layer metrics, and contributes to AI-enabled pipeline automation. Collaborates with stakeholders, data scientists, ML engineers, data stewards, and integration teams while mentoring junior engineers.
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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.
Join Enterprise Intelligence - Platform as a Senior Analytics Engineer embedded in the Data Services vertical. The team's mission is to transform New York Life's 178 years of proprietary data into bleeding-edge AI intelligence - embedded at the point of every decision, compounding competitive advantage with every interaction. You will design and build the scalable transformation pipelines and data products that power enterprise AI and business intelligence across every line of business.
Role Overview
The Senior Associate, Analytics Engineer is a practitioner who designs and implements scalable analytics engineering solutions with a high degree of independence. You lead your own workstreams end-to-end - from source alignment and data modeling through testing, deployment, and quality monitoring - engaging with the Analytics Engineering Lead and senior engineers for input on the most complex architectural decisions.
You are technically strong, self-directed, and effective at translating business requirements into well-structured engineering work. You exercise independent judgment in selecting approaches and techniques, engage directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide input into team-level goals and delivery planning. You advise peers on data modeling and analytics engineering best practices, and actively contribute to improving the team's SDLC practices.
What You'll Do
Pipeline Design & Data Product Delivery
• Lead, with support from the Analytics Engineering Lead, the design and implementation of scalable dbt transformation pipelines across Databricks, Postgres and Bigquery - covering layered modeling (staging / intermediate / mart), incremental strategies, and source contract definitions.
• Design and build well-tested, documented data products - dimensional models, aggregates, and feature tables.
• Develop solutions to complex data transformation problems using advanced SQL and Python, selecting the right approach based on evaluation, judgment, and the performance and maintainability requirements of the platform.
• Optimize and tune transformation pipelines for performance, cost efficiency, and incremental processing at scale - independently identifying bottlenecks and driving improvements.
• Own your data products end-to-end: source alignment, modeling, testing, documentation, deployment, and post-release monitoring, with awareness of downstream BI and AI/ML dependencies.
Data Quality, Governance & SDLC
• Lead, with support from senior engineers, the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data within your domain - ensuring data is consistent, trustworthy, and governed in accordance with enterprise standards.
• Implement robust dbt test frameworks, source freshness checks, and data quality monitoring patterns that make pipeline health observable and failures diagnosable.
• Apply governance standards at the analytics layer: column-level PII tagging, access control integration, and lineage documentation that supports the enterprise data catalog.
• Lead efforts to improve SDLC practices within the team - contributing to and helping establish CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, branching conventions, and PR review standards.
• Maintain data catalog entries for all owned assets: lineage, ownership, grain documentation, and business glossary alignment.
Innovation & Pattern Development
• Develop and maintain reusable macro libraries and dbt modeling patterns that enforce consistency and accelerate delivery across the analytics engineering surface.
• Participate in semantic layer development - building MetricFlow-based metric definitions that provide a governed, authoritative source of business logic decoupled from downstream consumption.
• Contribute to self-healing pipeline patterns and agentic pipeline construction approaches - prototyping and implementing automated anomaly detection, quality remediation, and LLM-assisted transformation generation.
• Support context graph construction that captures relationships between business entities and data assets, enabling richer AI reasoning and cross-domain signal integration.
• Stay current with the dbt ecosystem, Databricks and BigQuery platform releases, and the broader analytics engineering field - bringing concrete, evaluated recommendations back to the team.
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
• Engage directly with business stakeholders, data scientists, and ML engineers to understand data requirements - translating them into well-scoped Jira stories with clear acceptance criteria, grain definitions, and delivery estimates.
• Partner with Integration Services on ingestion design to ensure source data arrives in shapes that are transformation-ready, correctly typed, and well-governed before reaching the analytics layer.
• Collaborate with data stewards across NYL to resolve data quality issues at the source - driving shared accountability for data integrity rather than working around upstream problems.
• Communicate technical decisions, modeling trade-offs, and delivery status clearly to the Analytics Engineering Lead and cross-functional partners, adapting style and depth for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advise junior engineers on data modeling approaches, dbt patterns, SQL craft, and analytics engineering best practices through code review and pair-modeling sessions.
What You'll Bring
Required
• 4+ years of progressive data engineering experience with a strong focus on analytics engineering and transformation pipeline development in production cloud environments.
• Strong command of advanced SQL - window functions, CTEs, performance optimization, and complex multi-source joins - and solid Python proficiency for data engineering tasks.
• Hands-on dbt experience: layered modeling, incremental models, source definitions, singular and generic tests, macros, and multi-environment project configuration.
• Experience with cloud data platforms - Databricks and/or BigQuery required; experience with Snowflake or Redshift a plus.
• Understanding of ELT patterns, dimensional modeling, and the design of scalable analytical data products with clear grain, ownership, and consumer contracts.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows: branching strategy, PR review, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments with structured sprint planning, backlog grooming, and milestone tracking.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills - able to explain technical decisions, document data products, and engage effectively with both engineering and business stakeholders.
Preferred
• Exposure to semantic layer tooling - dbt Semantic Layer / MetricFlow, Looker LookML, or equivalent - and experience building metric definitions consumed by BI or AI systems.
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts and interest in applying LLM-assisted tooling to pipeline construction, data quality remediation, or transformation pattern generation.
• Experience with data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Anomalo, or dbt built-in monitoring patterns) and building self-monitoring pipeline patterns.
• Exposure to graph data models, knowledge graphs, or context graph construction for AI or analytics use cases.
• Experience with data catalog and lineage platforms (Dataplex, DataHub, Alation) and column-level governance tagging practices.
• Insurance or financial services industry experience, with familiarity with data privacy standards and enterprise compliance requirements.
Job Level: LEVELPF4
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $124,000-$177,000
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: 95189
#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.
Join Enterprise Intelligence - Platform as a Senior Analytics Engineer embedded in the Data Services vertical. The team's mission is to transform New York Life's 178 years of proprietary data into bleeding-edge AI intelligence - embedded at the point of every decision, compounding competitive advantage with every interaction. You will design and build the scalable transformation pipelines and data products that power enterprise AI and business intelligence across every line of business.
Role Overview
The Senior Associate, Analytics Engineer is a practitioner who designs and implements scalable analytics engineering solutions with a high degree of independence. You lead your own workstreams end-to-end - from source alignment and data modeling through testing, deployment, and quality monitoring - engaging with the Analytics Engineering Lead and senior engineers for input on the most complex architectural decisions.
You are technically strong, self-directed, and effective at translating business requirements into well-structured engineering work. You exercise independent judgment in selecting approaches and techniques, engage directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide input into team-level goals and delivery planning. You advise peers on data modeling and analytics engineering best practices, and actively contribute to improving the team's SDLC practices.
What You'll Do
Pipeline Design & Data Product Delivery
• Lead, with support from the Analytics Engineering Lead, the design and implementation of scalable dbt transformation pipelines across Databricks, Postgres and Bigquery - covering layered modeling (staging / intermediate / mart), incremental strategies, and source contract definitions.
• Design and build well-tested, documented data products - dimensional models, aggregates, and feature tables.
• Develop solutions to complex data transformation problems using advanced SQL and Python, selecting the right approach based on evaluation, judgment, and the performance and maintainability requirements of the platform.
• Optimize and tune transformation pipelines for performance, cost efficiency, and incremental processing at scale - independently identifying bottlenecks and driving improvements.
• Own your data products end-to-end: source alignment, modeling, testing, documentation, deployment, and post-release monitoring, with awareness of downstream BI and AI/ML dependencies.
Data Quality, Governance & SDLC
• Lead, with support from senior engineers, the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data within your domain - ensuring data is consistent, trustworthy, and governed in accordance with enterprise standards.
• Implement robust dbt test frameworks, source freshness checks, and data quality monitoring patterns that make pipeline health observable and failures diagnosable.
• Apply governance standards at the analytics layer: column-level PII tagging, access control integration, and lineage documentation that supports the enterprise data catalog.
• Lead efforts to improve SDLC practices within the team - contributing to and helping establish CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, branching conventions, and PR review standards.
• Maintain data catalog entries for all owned assets: lineage, ownership, grain documentation, and business glossary alignment.
Innovation & Pattern Development
• Develop and maintain reusable macro libraries and dbt modeling patterns that enforce consistency and accelerate delivery across the analytics engineering surface.
• Participate in semantic layer development - building MetricFlow-based metric definitions that provide a governed, authoritative source of business logic decoupled from downstream consumption.
• Contribute to self-healing pipeline patterns and agentic pipeline construction approaches - prototyping and implementing automated anomaly detection, quality remediation, and LLM-assisted transformation generation.
• Support context graph construction that captures relationships between business entities and data assets, enabling richer AI reasoning and cross-domain signal integration.
• Stay current with the dbt ecosystem, Databricks and BigQuery platform releases, and the broader analytics engineering field - bringing concrete, evaluated recommendations back to the team.
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
• Engage directly with business stakeholders, data scientists, and ML engineers to understand data requirements - translating them into well-scoped Jira stories with clear acceptance criteria, grain definitions, and delivery estimates.
• Partner with Integration Services on ingestion design to ensure source data arrives in shapes that are transformation-ready, correctly typed, and well-governed before reaching the analytics layer.
• Collaborate with data stewards across NYL to resolve data quality issues at the source - driving shared accountability for data integrity rather than working around upstream problems.
• Communicate technical decisions, modeling trade-offs, and delivery status clearly to the Analytics Engineering Lead and cross-functional partners, adapting style and depth for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advise junior engineers on data modeling approaches, dbt patterns, SQL craft, and analytics engineering best practices through code review and pair-modeling sessions.
What You'll Bring
Required
• 4+ years of progressive data engineering experience with a strong focus on analytics engineering and transformation pipeline development in production cloud environments.
• Strong command of advanced SQL - window functions, CTEs, performance optimization, and complex multi-source joins - and solid Python proficiency for data engineering tasks.
• Hands-on dbt experience: layered modeling, incremental models, source definitions, singular and generic tests, macros, and multi-environment project configuration.
• Experience with cloud data platforms - Databricks and/or BigQuery required; experience with Snowflake or Redshift a plus.
• Understanding of ELT patterns, dimensional modeling, and the design of scalable analytical data products with clear grain, ownership, and consumer contracts.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows: branching strategy, PR review, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments with structured sprint planning, backlog grooming, and milestone tracking.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills - able to explain technical decisions, document data products, and engage effectively with both engineering and business stakeholders.
Preferred
• Exposure to semantic layer tooling - dbt Semantic Layer / MetricFlow, Looker LookML, or equivalent - and experience building metric definitions consumed by BI or AI systems.
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts and interest in applying LLM-assisted tooling to pipeline construction, data quality remediation, or transformation pattern generation.
• Experience with data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Anomalo, or dbt built-in monitoring patterns) and building self-monitoring pipeline patterns.
• Exposure to graph data models, knowledge graphs, or context graph construction for AI or analytics use cases.
• Experience with data catalog and lineage platforms (Dataplex, DataHub, Alation) and column-level governance tagging practices.
• Insurance or financial services industry experience, with familiarity with data privacy standards and enterprise compliance requirements.
Job Level: LEVELPF4
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $124,000-$177,000
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: 95189
#BI-Hybrid
Skills Required
- 4+ years of progressive data engineering experience focused on analytics engineering and production transformation pipelines in cloud environments
- Advanced SQL proficiency, including window functions, CTEs, performance optimization, and complex multi-source joins
- Solid Python proficiency for data engineering tasks
- Hands-on dbt experience with layered modeling, incremental models, source definitions, tests, macros, and multi-environment configuration
- Experience with Databricks and/or BigQuery
- Understanding of ELT patterns, dimensional modeling, and scalable analytical data products
- Proficiency with Git, branching strategies, pull request review, and CI/CD integration
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and milestone tracking
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and stakeholder engagement
- Experience with Snowflake or Redshift
- Exposure to dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow, Looker LookML, or equivalent semantic-layer tooling
- Familiarity with agentic AI concepts and LLM-assisted pipeline or data-quality tooling
- Experience with data observability tools such as Monte Carlo, Anomalo, or dbt monitoring
- Experience with graph data models, knowledge graphs, or context graphs
- Experience with data catalog and lineage platforms such as Dataplex, DataHub, or Alation
- Insurance or financial services experience and familiarity with data privacy and enterprise compliance requirements
What the Team is Saying
Tyrone
Corporate Vice President, Employee Experience
Emma
Director, Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV)
Deepa
Chief Information Officer
Patricia
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Technology Services
Joel
Senior Vice President, Founder & Head of New York Life Ventures
Nishit
Corporate Vice President, AI & Data Architect
New York Life Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The package prominently features a defined‑benefit pension alongside a 401(k) with company match, with some materials noting day‑one vesting. This combination is repeatedly highlighted as a standout for long‑term security.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include fertility support, adoption assistance, childcare and elder‑care resources, backup childcare/tutoring, and expanded paid new‑parent leave. These benefits are presented as broad, practical supports for caregivers.
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Healthcare Strength — Listed benefits span medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life and disability coverage, plus EAP, counseling, wellness resources, and fitness perks. The breadth of core health coverage is consistently emphasized for corporate roles.
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The Company
What We Do
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of integrity, mutuality, and financial strength fuels a future defined by bold transformation. As the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S., we operate on behalf of our policy owners—not shareholders. That structure allows us to take a long-term view, investing in people, purpose, and innovation that endures. Guided by a clear enterprise vision to become a technology-, data-, and AI-powered company, we’re modernizing our platforms, rearchitecting experiences, and embedding intelligence across our products and services. Our mission has always been about helping people through life’s most meaningful moments. Today, technology is amplifying that mission—enabling us to serve clients, advisors, and communities in more personalized, proactive ways. With a diversified business portfolio spanning insurance, investments, retirement, group benefits, and direct-to-consumer offerings, New York Life delivers the stability of a Fortune 100 company with the agility of one that’s continuously evolving. We’re powered by a values-led culture, inclusive teams, and a shared belief that when our people thrive, so does our company. Here, tradition fuels momentum—and your ideas, energy, and growth power what’s next.
Why Work With Us
New York Life is transforming from the inside out—blending 180 years of trust with the velocity of innovation. What makes us different is our culture: grounded in integrity, humanity, and shared success—values that show up in how we work, lead, and grow. If you want a place where innovation has purpose—build what's next with us.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Typical time on-site:
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