Corporate Vice President - Head of Storage & Data Protection

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter

Technology, Data, AI And Ventures

Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.

Business Unit Overview

Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and innovative technology solutions that enable New York Life's business strategy. ETS provides technology leadership across infrastructure, platforms, enterprise architecture, end-user services, software engineering, and operational excellence, supporting the company's policyholders, employees, and business partners.

Role Summary

The Storage & Data Protection Leader is a highly technical leadership role within Core Infrastructure Technology, accountable for New York Life's enterprise-wide storage, data protection, and recovery capability. This leader owns strategy, architecture, engineering, and operational direction across colocation/private cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure, and SaaS, unifying Infrastructure, Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Resiliency around reliable services and recoverable data.

What You'll Do

Strategy, Vision & Governance

• Own the enterprise storage, data protection, and recovery strategy, operating model, and prioritized roadmap across on-premises/private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS; establish owners, milestones, dependencies, adoption measures, and measurable outcomes.
• Define service ownership, decision rights, and governance with Infrastructure, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Resiliency, and application teams.
• Build investment cases and portfolio priorities with Procurement, Finance, and Enterprise Architecture, addressing TCO, production dates, risks, and product dependencies.

Enterprise Product Ownership

• Serve as product owner for block, file and object storage, backup, replication, cloud/SaaS protection, immutable backups, isolated recovery, and self-service capabilities.
• Publish product roadmaps, OKRs, and scorecards for protection coverage, backup/restore success, RTO/RPO attainment, availability, performance, capacity, automation, cost, and risk. Deliver consumable services with clear SLAs, documentation, onboarding, support, ownership, and appropriate chargeback.

Architecture, Design & Patterns

• Define reference architectures and reusable storage, backup, replication, retention, cyber-vaulting, and validated recovery patterns across private cloud, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, and SaaS.
• Embed identity and access controls, encryption, immutability, isolation, policy-as-code, Infrastructure as Code, and multi-region disaster recovery into engineering standards.
• Integrate platforms, cloud services, application inventories, and ServiceNow CMDB/CSDM ...

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