Vice President of Engineering
We are seeking a Vice President of Engineering to join our leadership team and help shape the future of our technology organization. This leader will be responsible for introducing and institutionalizing engineering excellence and release management practices that are currently not in place, with the goal of driving quality, consistency, and reliability across the enterprise.
The VP of Engineering will play a critical role in building scalable processes, elevating operational rigor, and ensuring that our technology organization can deliver with speed, reliability, and business alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineering Process Establishment
- Design and implement core engineering practices that enable disciplined software development, testing, and deployment.
- Define and drive standards for code quality, version control, peer review, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).
- Create mechanisms for measuring engineering effectiveness and quality outcomes.
- Release Management Practices
- Build and formalize release management frameworks to ensure predictability, safety, and consistency in software delivery.
- Introduce governance and controls around release readiness, change management, and post-release validation.
- Collaborate with product and business teams to align release processes with organizational priorities and timelines.
- Business Reliability & Resilience
- Lead initiatives to strengthen system reliability, uptime, and incident response.
- Implement proactive monitoring, root cause analysis, and recovery practices to minimize business disruption.
- Partner with operations to embed resiliency and continuity practices at every layer of the technology stack.
- Strategic Leadership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CIO and senior leadership, aligning technology practices with business objectives.
- Mentor engineering leaders, instilling a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate emerging tools and methods to evolve engineering and release practices in line with industry standards.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including executive-level roles.
- Demonstrated success in building and institutionalizing engineering and release management practices in organizations undergoing modernization or transformation.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), and quality assurance frameworks.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and scale operational processes that enable high-quality, reliable delivery.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $250,000 to $300,000
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.
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Job Requisition ID: 92740
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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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