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The Role
Design, configure, and operate data governance tooling for unstructured and structured data. Implement metadata cataloging, lineage harvesting, automated data quality checks, and governance workflows. Build prototypes, dashboards, and connectors using Python, SQL, Databricks, and Streamlit. Collaborate with stakeholders to define critical data elements, prioritize remediation, produce documentation, and drive tool adoption via trainings and enablement.
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Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth - driving the company's success.
Role Overview:
The Data Protection Engineer plays a key role in advancing New York Life's data governance & data protection initiatives. This individual contributor role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing data protection solutions and data governance workflows using platforms such as Databricks, Securiti.ai, Anomalo, & Atlan.
Working closely with data governance analysts, product managers, and business/technology teams, the data protection engineer delivers capabilities like data scanning for PII/PHI detection, data protection using tokenization/masking and data risk measurement, monitoring and mitigation; supporting New York Life's Data Strategy and enabling timely, data-driven decisions built on trusted information.
What You'll Do:
What You'll Bring:
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
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.
Visit our LinkedIn to see how our employees and agents are leading the industry and impacting communities.
Visit our Newsroom to learn more about how our company is constantly evolving to meet our clients' and employees' needs.
Job Requisition ID: 94025
#BI-Hybrid
As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth - driving the company's success.
Role Overview:
The Data Protection Engineer plays a key role in advancing New York Life's data governance & data protection initiatives. This individual contributor role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing data protection solutions and data governance workflows using platforms such as Databricks, Securiti.ai, Anomalo, & Atlan.
Working closely with data governance analysts, product managers, and business/technology teams, the data protection engineer delivers capabilities like data scanning for PII/PHI detection, data protection using tokenization/masking and data risk measurement, monitoring and mitigation; supporting New York Life's Data Strategy and enabling timely, data-driven decisions built on trusted information.
What You'll Do:
- Develop and maintain automated data protection routines for NYL's democratized enterprise data lakes in AWS (RedShift, DataBricks) & GCP (BigQuery, PostgreSQL), for both structured & unstructured data.
- Configure, test, and maintain Databricks, Anomalo, Atlan, Securiti.ai platform functionality, including building custom connectors and running BAU platform operations.
- Build hands-on solutions, prototypes, dashboards, or lightweight applications using Python, SQL, Streamlit, Databricks, and related tools.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define data protection requirements for critical data elements and support remediation prioritization
- Create clear documentation and reporting to communicate findings, standards, and recommendations.
- Drive adoption of governance tools through road-shows, training sessions, user enablement, and data owner/steward playbooks.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies by contributing to backlog building and sprint events in Jira.
What You'll Bring:
- 5-7+ years of professional experience, including 2-3+ years in a data protection function.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data protection & remediation, tagging, data quality and metadata management concepts.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and experience working across business and technical teams.
- Strong proficiency with SQL, Python and data modeling/analysis concepts.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Required Skills:
- Hands-on experience with DataBricks, Securiti.ai, Anomalo, Atlan, or similar data governance/protection tools.
- Prior experience with rollouts for data protection routines for PII/PHI structured & unstructured data with be a stand-out skill
- Working in Agile environments using Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
- Understanding of security and authentication patterns (AWS Secrets manager etc.) protection algorithms (tokenization/masking etc.)
- Backend Development (Postgres DB, Data Modelling, Query optimization and indexing, Connection pooling, Strong SQL skills with the ability to analyze and validate data lineage etc.,)
- Software development skills incl. but not limited to solutions design, deployment management (SDLC patterns, CI CD, leveraging Harness etc.) & testing (Unit testing, Integration testing, test automation, test suites etc.)
Preferred Skills:
- Prior experience with DSPM initiatives
- Exposure to AI-enabled governance accelerators, metadata enrichment, cataloging. Use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and similar applications for research, document analysis, summarization, workflow automation, QA, and prototyping.
- Experience supporting data modernization or cloud migration initiatives in enterprise settings.
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.
Visit our LinkedIn to see how our employees and agents are leading the industry and impacting communities.
Visit our Newsroom to learn more about how our company is constantly evolving to meet our clients' and employees' needs.
Job Requisition ID: 94025
#BI-Hybrid
Skills Required
- 3-5+ years of professional experience, including 1-2+ years in a data governance function.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Strong understanding of unstructured data and data governance frameworks.
- Experience with metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage concepts.
- Experience implementing data quality management and automated data quality checks.
- Proficiency with SQL.
- Proficiency with Python.
- Experience configuring and maintaining Atlan.
- Experience configuring and maintaining Anomalo.
- Experience with Unity Catalog (Databricks) and Databricks platform.
- Experience building connectors, prototypes, dashboards or lightweight apps (e.g., Streamlit).
- Experience working in Agile teams and using Jira.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills working across business and technical teams.
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 Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Corporate employees are offered a 401(k) with company match and, for many roles, a defined‑benefit pension, with both the employee contributions and company match vesting 100% from day one. Qualified financial professionals may also have access to a defined‑benefit plan, per plan documents.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid New Parent leave doubled to 8 weeks for all parents as of January 1, 2024, and birthing parents typically receive an additional 6 weeks of paid short‑term disability. The company also highlights fertility and adoption support, backup childcare, tutoring, and elder‑care resources.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are paired with HRAs/FSAs, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness programs, and telemedicine. Work/life perks such as gym discounts or on‑site gyms further reinforce the health and wellbeing offering.
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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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