Senior Associate - Integration Technical Lead

New York Life•New York, NY

58d•$124,000 - $177,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. As an Integration Tech Lead within TDAV, you will drive the design, development, and delivery of enterprise integration solutions that power New York Life’s digital ecosystem. You will lead modernization initiatives leveraging MuleSoft, Spring boot, cloud-native architectures on AWS, and API-led connectivity to enable seamless data exchange across business platforms. This role plays a critical part in advancing scalable, secure, and resilient integration frameworks, while aligning with enterprise architecture standards and enabling innovation through an AI-first development mindset. You will collaborate closely with business, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions across Finance and Insurance domains.

Requirements

7–10 years of experience in integration architecture, development, and delivery
Strong expertise in MuleSoft, Spring boot and API-led connectivity
Hands-on experience building microservices and distributed systems on AWS
Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and high-performance integration solutions
Solid understanding of API design principles (REST, OpenAPI, versioning, governance)
Experience working in Financial Services / Insurance domain
Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and stakeholder communication skills
Ability to lead technical teams and drive delivery in Agile environments
MuleSoft (Design, Development, API Manager, Runtime Fabric)
AWS Cloud Services (Lambda, Glue, MSK, API Gateway, S3, ECS/EKS, Step Functions)
Integration patterns & best practices (API-led, event-driven, messaging, batch)
Microservices architecture & distributed system design
API design concepts (RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, governance)
DevOps & CI/CD (Git, Jenkins/Harness DevOps, automated testing frameworks)

Nice To Haves

Experience in Finance / Insurance domain (Policy Admin, ACORD standards)
AI-first development approach (use of AI-assisted coding, automation, or intelligent workflows)
Knowledge of event streaming platforms (Kafka, MQ)
Familiarity with security standards (OAuth2, JWT, Zero Trust architecture)
Exposure to observability tools (New Relic, CloudWatch, PageDuty)

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end design and delivery of integration solutions using MuleSoft, Spring boot, microservices, and API-led architectures
Define and enforce best practices for API design, integration patterns, and reusable component development
Architect and implement scalable integration solutions on AWS leveraging cloud-native services
Drive modernization of legacy integrations into decoupled microservices and API-based ecosystems
Leverage AI-assisted development tools and modern coding assistants to accelerate software delivery, improve code quality, and enhance developer productivity.
Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to development teams across onshore/offshore models
Collaborate with enterprise architects, product teams, and business stakeholders to align integration strategy with business goals
Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, security, and resiliency
Establish CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automation for integration delivery
Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for production systems