Vice President, Platform Engineering – Digital & Wealth Management

Voya Financial

Vice President of Platform Engineering overseeing Voya's Wealth Management platform. Leading engineering standards, quality, and technological strategy to drive digital outcomes.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeBoston • Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape the strategic vision for Voya’s Wealth Management platform and manage the go-forward digital technology strategy & roadmap.
Serve as a “horizontal leader” across the organization—raising engineering quality and reliability across multiple product squads while improving developer productivity and delivery velocity.
Set Engineering Standards & Govern Technology Decisions by defining and enforcing engineering standards across squads (approved stacks, patterns, API conventions, logging/error standards, libraries, and tech radar).
Lead an engineering council to review cross-cutting proposals and ensure decisions are documented via Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
Own a technology debt register and drive remediation as a first-class engineering priority.
Build a World-Class Quality Engineering System by establishing non-negotiable quality gates across CI/CD (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, and accessibility).
Standardize contract testing across API boundaries to protect customer journeys from regressions.
Own performance/load testing and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.2 AA) as core quality requirements.
Define and govern how AI is built and shipped across the portfolio (LLM integration patterns, RAG standards, guardrails, validation, observability).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field required; Master’s degree a plus.
15+ years of progressive experience across platform engineering, product, or technology leadership, with at least 5+ years leading engineering or product organizations in a B2C or customer-facing environment.
Demonstrated success building and scaling complex, customer-facing platforms, translating customer needs into measurable business and engineering outcomes.
Experience operating as a horizontal leader, setting standards and driving consistency across multiple teams or domains—not just within a single product.
Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams (onshore/offshore) and drive execution across complex portfolios.
Strong technical grounding in modern architecture patterns, including APIs, event-driven systems, batch processing, webhooks, and SSO integrations.
Deep understanding of cloud-native engineering (AWS and/or Azure), DevSecOps practices, and automation at scale.
Experience improving developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity at scale.
Experience establishing quality engineering standards, reliability practices, and production observability.
Strong command of SRE principles, operational excellence, and customer-facing system reliability.
Working knowledge of application security and compliance within regulated environments, including customer data protection.
Familiarity with AI/ML platforms and LLM integration patterns, with a practical understanding of applying emerging technologies to customer and platform design.
Ability to translate technology innovation into business value, customer outcomes, and scalable platforms.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform engineeringAPI developmentevent-driven systemsbatch processingwebhooksSSO integrationscloud-native engineeringAWSAzureDevSecOps

Soft Skills

leadershipcross-team collaborationstrategic visionengineering qualitydeveloper productivityexecutioncommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer focusinnovation