Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter

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.

Job Requirements

• Write clean, well-tested & secure code, exhibit ownership from requirements to development
• Deeply understand existing architecture on the back end as well as the front-end side to be able to enhance and improve architecture going forward with a key focus on scalability and quality
• Apply patches/upgrades from vendors, create Monitoring/Alerting as needed
• Provide expertise and best practices for implementing cloud security (internal) and product security (external) and knowledge of one or more SSO methodologies (SAML, LDAP, MS AD)
• Sharp focus on gaining an in-depth understanding of the requirements around user experience to be able to deliver high quality, cross-platform optimized and responsive web front-end experience
• Strong focus on creating and maintaining project documents and artifacts to capture current state
• Focus on getting the required depth of functional expertise to be able to effectively suggest solutions to business problems/requirements
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work with designers, engineers, product management and business stakeholders to deliver & enhance new/existing capabilities
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies as needed and apply them to business solutions. Stay abreast of new/upcoming technologies in the market
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detail orientation with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Proactive ownership, troubleshooting & resolution of issues as they arise
• Challenge the status quo and propose newer and better ways of doing things

• Development experience of Atlassian systems (Jira & Confluence Cloud)
• Experience in the design, build, customization and roll out of advanced Jira workflows and schemes
• Hands on experience in installing and configuring tools - IBM Urban code udeploy and agents, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube on AWS via Terraform/ Ansible for Enterprise.
• Hands on experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines by using UNIX/Linux/Windows, Java, Dot Net, Angular, Git, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory on premises/AWS.
• Strong in writing Groovy scripts and automation, experience in developing in Python, bash, YAML, Jenkins templates.
• Proficiency with web application development using Java, REST-ful APIs creation using Spring Boot or Node
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as C#, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, React with Redux
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB
• Experience with relevant code repository and project tools such as Team Foundation Server, Git, JIRA
• Ability to integrate APIs, write unit test cases, perform Unit Testing (UT) and System Integration testing (SIT)
• Working experience with or understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment
• Understanding of existing and emerging web standards such as HTML5 and Mobile
• Demonstrated ability with Application Architecture, best practices and systems engineering industry trends
• Solid understanding of Agile application development methodologies and release management activities

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or another related technical field but not required
• Candidates who have completed full stack development/coding bootcamps or equivalent industry recognized certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or Solutions architect) will also be considered in lieu of a technical undergraduate degree