Senior Associate - Data Protection Engineer

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 Protection Engineer plays a key role in advancing New York Life’s data governance & data protection initiatives. This individual contributor role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing data protection solutions and data governance workflows using platforms such as Databricks , Securiti.ai , Anomalo , & Atlan .

Working closely with data governance analysts, product managers, and business/technology teams, the data protection engineer delivers capabilities like data scanning for PII/PHI detection, data protection using tokenization/masking and data risk measurement, monitoring and mitigation; supporting New York Life’s Data Strategy and enabling timely, data-driven decisions built on trusted information.

What You’ll Do :

• Develop and maintain automated data protection routines for NYL’s democratized enterprise data lakes in AWS (RedShift, DataBricks) & GCP (BigQuery, PostgreSQL), for both structured & unstructured data.

• Configure, test, and maintain Databricks, Anomalo, Atlan, Securiti.ai platform functionality, including building custom connectors and running BAU platform operations.

• Build hands-on solutions, prototypes, dashboards, or lightweight applications using Python, SQL, Streamlit, Databricks, and related tools.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data protection requirements for critical data elements and support remediation prioritization

• Create clear documentation and reporting to communicate findings, standards, and recommendations.

• Drive adoption of governance tools through road-shows, training sessions, user enablement, and data owner/steward playbooks.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies by contributing to backlog building and sprint events in Jira.

What You’ll Bring :

• 5–7+ years of professional experience, including 2-3+ years in a data protection function.

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

• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data protection & remediation, tagging, data quality and metadata management concepts.

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

• Strong proficiency with SQL, Python and data modeling/analysis concepts.

• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Required Skills :

• Hands-on experience with DataBricks, Securiti.ai, Anomalo, Atlan, or similar data governance/protection tools.

• Prior experience with rollouts for data protection routines for PII/PHI structured & unstructured data with be a stand-out skill

• Working in Agile environments using Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.

• Understanding of security and authentication patterns (AWS Secrets manager etc.) protection algorithms (tokenization/masking etc.)

• Backend Development (Postgres DB, Data Modelling, Query optimization and indexing, Connection pooling, Strong SQL skills with the ability to analyze and validate data lineage etc.,) 

• Software development skills incl. but not limited to solutions design, deployment management (SDLC patterns, CI CD, leveraging Harness etc.) & testing (Unit testing, Integration testing, test automation, test suites etc.) 

Preferred Skills:  

• Prior experience with DSPM initiatives

• Exposure to AI-enabled governance accelerators, metadata enrichment, cataloging. Use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and similar applications for research, document analysis, summarization, workflow automation, QA, and prototyping.

• Experience supporting data modernization or cloud migration initiatives in enterprise settings.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $124,000-$177,000 

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 here to 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.​

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Job Requisition ID: 94025