Vice President of Engineering

New York Life • New York, NY

80d • $250,000 - $300,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Leave programs
• Adoption assistance
• Student loan repayment programs
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility
• Incentive program participation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities