MetLife

MetLife is on a transformational journey into the New Frontier.  Working closely with our business partners, we are embarking on a transformation that will drive a holistic and cohesive product aligned model, enabled by an end-to-end delivery capability to drive our highest impact enterprise strategic agenda.  Within MetLife Global Technology – Corporate Systems - Controls, our team assists our IT and business partners in solving complex operational and risk management challenges by rapidly delivering lasting transformations with speed and discipline. Driven by passion and purpose, you will be instrumental in driving change and implementing MetLife’s product model for our businesses while aligning our brand and technology to bring immediate value to our customers and partners.

The Opportunity 

MetLife Corporate Technology – Controls IT is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer (Solutions Architect / Product Development Engineer). The ideal candidate will possess strong development and engineering capabilities, communication, collaboration, with hands-on experience implementing (build and buy capabilities) in GRC and Risk domains.  Solid understanding of best practices and developer enablement required.  The role is both hands-on and strategic, often guiding teams through architectural decisions, platform modernization, and agile delivery practices.

How You’ll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Leads the technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms.
• Partner with Product Owner in planning business outcomes and prioritizing for impact within the Risk Management Technology space, including OpenPages and other GRC tools (Ai Integrations / Helper, Archer, Custom Built Risk Tools, etc.)
• Lead discovery sessions to observe, document, and validate business processes and capture key insights for complex product/system.
• Perform gap analysis and recommend solutions. Lead the design, implementation, testing, integration and issue resolution.
• Responsible for development of specific software/platform components and unit testing for such components.
• Elicit, analyze, and document technical specifications and functional requirements and rules. Decompose complex requirements, create functional specifications for complex products. Lead the rationalization of the backlog.
• Lead operational and production support with ability to troubleshoot issues and perform root cause analysis in the business workflow and processes on a variety of complex production and application issues.
• Monitor performance, identifying underlying problems, researching potential solutions, and propose necessary actions in a complex business workflow and processes as well as work with vendor suppliers in resolutions.
• Work with vendor product owners to represent MetLife needs, bring back vendor issues/ enhancements and lead analysis of impact to MetLife functions. Participate in vendor selections using a commercial mindset.
• Present and develop architecture documents for accounting applications and work with System Architecture on any proposed changes
• Model and advocate for best practices within AI technologies, DevOps, agile, and cloud computing.  
• This role is primarily focused on OpenPages, Java, React, Angular, DB2, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud technologies.
• This individual needs to have a passion for Agile DevOps enabled software development, infrastructure automation to accelerate the team’s delivery of business value with speed and discipline.

Required Skills:

• 8 years of experience overall, and knowledge in software development with strong technical understanding of designing and building enterprise scale applications, including most of the following: 
  • 6 years of hands-on software development in Java and OpenPages; full‑stack (J2EE/Spring/Spring Boot), REST/Microservices, with React/Angular.
  • Database skills, Design Patterns, and Performance tuning.
  • Strong IBM OpenPages experience (can include custom development, schema, Task‑Focused UI, workflow, security), Agile/Scrum.
  • Event-driven and API-driven solution stack, data processing, reactive architecture.
  • DevOps pipelines, and/or Infrastructure automation.
• At least 4 years of project lead/project management experience with 2+ years in technology strategy, internal strategy, business engagement, and/or product strategy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as ability to establish strong relationships across teams and business partners to effectively deliver work across the enterprise.
• Ability to build, deliver and operate complex, cloud-based systems
• Ability to follow an agile or iterative software development methodology.
• Experience with test-driven development and continuous testing.
• Full stack engineer with ability to write object-oriented, self-documenting, maintainable code.
• Strong technical background with ability to guide junior associates.
• Excellent analysis, communication, problem solving, process improvement and leadership skills.
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models and technologies.
• Ability to work independently or on a team, drive solutions with minimal supervision, be highly motivated and a quick learner.
• Ability to translate broad customer, product and/or business next generation strategies into business & technology transformational solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize business outcomes and high-level business requirements into clear feature breakdown and prioritization including writing user stories.
• Experience working in a complex global organization with proven effectiveness operating in a global company spanning multiple business units.

Preferred Skills: 

• 5+ years of experience in Risk domains related to Operational Risk Management, GRC, Internal Audit, Financial/SOX Governance and Compliance Risk Management.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline or higher education such as a master's degree. 
• Experience working in Financial Services or in a Global Insurance company is preferred.  
• Exposure to modern AI concepts such as generative AI, various models of machine learning, large language models, conversational AI (chatbot, etc.), and co-pilot applications.
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and Azure certifications are a plus.
• Exposure to Azure solutions (ex. Azure Function, Azure Service Bus, Azure Data Factory, and/or Databricks).