Corporate Vice President: Data Catalog Lead

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
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.
Role Overview:
The Data Catalog Lead plays a key role in advancing New York Life's data governance initiatives. This team leader role focuses on the design, development and execution of NYL's metadata management strategy. This position would lead a team of data governance analysts and engineers and collaborate with product managers, technology teams and data owners/steward from the business to deliver capabilities like data catalog, data lineage and governance workflows using platforms such as Atlan and Unity Catalog. The key business outcome that this position will drive is that of enhancing data discoverability, establishing data ownership frameworks and ensuring compliance to governance standards across the enterprise.
What You'll Do:

• Define and drive the meta data management strategy.

• Lead the design and implementation of governance platforms, processes & workflows.

• Collaborate with business data owners, stewards, data product managers, SMEs, and engineers to drive alignment on governance outcomes and adoption of governance tools and processes.

• Drive social events like roadshows, lunch and learns, training sessions, user enablement/onboarding sessions.

• As the Product Owner, participate in and lead the Agile ceremonies by owning the product backlog, managing the deliveries and soliciting/acting on customer feedback.

What You'll Bring:

• 15+ years of professional experience, including 10+ years in a data governance function.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, metadata management, and data cataloging/lineage concepts.

• Proven ability to translate business needs into governance policies, standards, and workflows.

• Product owner / product management skills to drive user engagement & product adoption.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and experience working across business and technical teams.

• Familiarity with SQL, data analysis and data modeling concepts.

Required Skills:

• Hands-on experience with metadata management tools. Familiarity with data quality and observability tools.

• Experience applying governance frameworks, glossary management, and stewardship processes.

• Working in Agile environments as a Product Owner, using Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.

Preferred Skills:

• Prior experience with ATLAN will be a stand-out skill.

• Exposure to the AWS cloud stack

• Exposure to AI-enabled governance accelerators, metadata enrichment, cataloging.

• Experience driving/supporting data warehousing, data modernization or cloud migration initiatives in enterprise settings.

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Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $147,500-$211,000
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: 93459