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.

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. The position leads a team of data governance analysts and engineers, collaborating with product managers, technology teams, and data owners/stewards 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 is enhancing data discoverability, establishing data ownership frameworks, and ensuring compliance with governance standards across the enterprise.

• Define and drive the metadata management strategy.
• Lead the design and implementation of governance platforms, processes, and 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 such as road shows, lunch and learns, training sessions, user enablement/onboarding sessions.
• As Product Owner, participate in and lead Agile ceremonies by owning the product backlog, managing the deliveries, and soliciting/acting on customer feedback.

• 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 and product adoption.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and experience working across business and technical teams.
• Familiarity with SQL, data analysis and data modeling concepts.

• Hands‑on experience with metadata management tools and familiarity with data quality and observability tools.
• Experience applying governance frameworks, glossary management, and stewardship processes.
• Experience working in Agile environments as a Product Owner, using Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.

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

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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. Employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

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. We offer a rare balance of long‑standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.

We provide a full package of benefits for employees—leaving unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs.

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