- Posting Location: Cary, North Carolina
Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
The Lead Engineer for content management platforms provides technical expertise for multiple business-critical IT platforms to include WebSphere Application Server, Liberty, FileNet, Business Automation Workflow, Content Navigator, Content Server and IBM Cloud Pak technologies. The role will work in partnership with management and is responsible for developing and driving the strategic evolution of the supported technologies, ensuring the infrastructure is highly reliable, available, and secure. The role will participate in the evaluation and recommendation of new products, applying knowledge of emerging technologies for adoption into the enterprise. The role will also represent the Portal and ECM domain in relevant currency, security, and automation efforts.
Success in this role requires experience with IBM Cloud Pak technologies and/or supporting applications in a containerized environment (OpenShift, Kubernetes). The Lead Engineer is responsible for implementing and maintaining enterprise-wide content management platforms. Job duties consist of planning, designing and implementing our content management infrastructure to include operational processes and procedures. You’ll collaborate closely with application development partners, technology vendors and management in an environment where every contribution is respected, and every perspective is heard.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead - Coaching and mentoring junior technologists in the team.
- Create - Business driven solutions designed with our customers in mind
- Enable - self-service automations designed in cooperative partnerships across the enterprise.
- Drive - Infrastructure aligned currency initiatives.
Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:
- Undergraduate degree or 6 years of equivalent IT experience
- Working knowledge in Linux, Python, shell scripting & application server administration.
- Demonstrated success in implementing large, shared platform technologies within a global company.
- Effective organizational and cultural skills to drive and implement major engineering efforts.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and productive partnerships with peers, customers, leadership, and partners.
Preferred:
- Suggested 6+ years of experience in an IT function with expert knowledge of enterprise content management platforms, including IBM FileNet, OpenText Content Server and IBM Cloud Pak technologies.
- Strong interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
At MetLife, we’re leading the global transformation of an industry we’ve long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we’re dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers.
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!
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2025 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!
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.