Description and Requirements

Job Location: Cary, NC (Hybrid)

Role Value Proposition:

MetLife is leading the way in Digital transformation through accelerating growth and driving value with a focus on customers, world-class capabilities, and a holistic transformation. We are seeking a Lead Software & Platform Engineer to lead the technical delivery of MetLife Digital and Data Platforms. The ideal candidate will possess prior technical leadership experience in insurance industry, strong development, communication, collaboration, and project management skills, also have hands-on experience in leading complex systems projects using cloud and on-prem technologies with ability to influence people across the organization. You will get an opportunity to work on high impact team with experts who are great mentors. This position will play a critical role in removing barriers between data and activation to enhance MetLife’s Technology Modernization journey.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides technical and project leadership to a project team that is building foundational solutions using Azure Cloud platform for MetLife Enterprise functions.
• Communicates recommended architectural vision, data strategies as well as cloud roadmap strategies and obtain buy-in from key internal stakeholders.
• Establishes best practices and reusable implementation blue-prints.
• Collaborates with the product line architect towards solution architecture design, review and roadmap.
• Enable product delivery through hands-on development and in collaboration with developers, analysts and business to build fully vetted products that ensures that new capabilities are implemented according to enterprise standards enabling enterprise caliber cloud data platform products.
• Leads project planning activities in an Agile SCRUM environment to define the milestones and activities within a comprehensive project plan to ensure project is on time and budget.
• Ensure secure, high-quality code across the entire team through code/implementation reviews.
• Investigating and resolving production management incidents, problems, and service requests.
• Working with cross-functional teams enabling product delivery.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experienced data engineer in analysis, design, development, delivery and operationalization of digital data products.
• Hands on experience in Azure PaaS with components like Cosmos, Azure Data Factory, DataBricks, Data Lake/BLOB Storage, Azure Functions, LogicApps, ServiceBus, Event Hub, SQL PaaS, Synapse, KeyVault, Azure ML, Spark, AKS (Preferred), ASE (Preferred).
• Deep knowledge of data architectures including data lakes, warehouses, marts, lake house, graph, timeseries and in-memory solutions.
• Proven experience in leading, guiding, and mentoring team members in architecting, designing, and planning out complex technical implementations; Working experience with matrix, cross functional global team members.
• Partner with business and IT teams to enable delivery of solutions that are secure, scalable, highly performant and governed in accordance with data privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication & inter-personal skills with keen learning mindset.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines showcasing strong accountability.

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• DevOps practices for CI/CD, release management, and automation using Azure DevOps
• Git-based repositories such as Azure repos, GitHub, Bitbucket
• Deep understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture.
• Understanding with Microservices architecture and designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency with Python a big plus, Java, C# preferred.
• Modern Identity and Access Management and general AppSec practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (like Scrum or Kanban).
• Experience with testcase-driven development and continuous testing.
• Experience around information risk, security, PII, SOX and legal compliance requirements.
• Experience in managing L1 & L2 support teams & providing L3 support for data delivery pipelines.

Benefits We Offer

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2023 "World's Most Admired Companies" as well as the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!

Benefits We Offer

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2023 "World's Most Admired Companies" as well as the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!

Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.

MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.