MetLife

Role Value Proposition - 
 
The MetLife Corporate Technology (CT) organization is evolving to enable MetLife’s New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a global function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key corporate functions within MetLife including, Finance, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Legal, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Risk, Treasury, Audit and Compliance. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.
 As part of Tech Talent Transformation (T3) agenda, MetLife is establishing a Technology Center in India. This technology center will perform as an integrated organization between onshore, offshore, and strategic vendor partners in an Agile delivery model.
 We are seeking a highly skilled hands-on delivery engineer who is responsible for partnering with Internal Audit Leaders, third party vendors and IT Executives to lead global transformation projects with the goal of attracting, developing and retaining talent across the organization. This position will be a part of a fast-paced IT team leveraging technology expertise that spans across Java, REACT, Python, Azure and AI.
 He/she should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.
 
Key Responsibilities - 
 
 • Stakeholder Management - Managing key business stakeholders to deliver required technology capabilities to support the digital transformation agenda. Driving prioritization of the product backlog. This includes managing key vendors providing the resources, SaaS & other capabilities.
 • Technology Implementation – Implement and support projects on Internal Audit Technology platforms, specifically Azure Cloud.
 • Ways of Working – Adoption of the Agile ways of working in the software delivery lifecycle.
 • E2E Software Lifecycle Management (Architecture, Design, Development, Testing & Production)
 • Evaluate/Implement technical solutions supporting Internal Audit and SAAS based solutions, talent development, performance management, and workforce analytic
 • Work with Functional Experts to translate user requirements into Technical Specifications
 • Partner with internal business process owners, technical team members, and senior management throughout the project life cycle
 • Act as the intermediary to facilitate a clear understanding among all parties about business assumptions and requirements, design, technical, testing, and production migration requirements
 • Drive the resolution and troubleshooting of issues during development and post- production support.
 • Responsible to Support Day-to-day business enhancements
 
Education –

A Bachelors/master's degree in computer science or equivalent Engineering degree.
 Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field

Technical Skill - 

Required:
 7+ years of experience in Controls Technology (Compliance, Audit, Legal, Risk) implementation & support; preferably cloud based solutions
 Global SAAS based Internal Audit or other control functions technology implementation experience
 Familiar with technology landscape supporting integration solutions such as Azure, Databricks, API Management
 Prior lead role or project management experience
 Experience in both front-end (e.g. REACT) and back-end technologies (e.g. Node.js, Python, Java), including Restful API design and microservices architecture
 Experience with MS Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and related project delivery utilities.
 
Preferred:
 Azure Cloud Certifications
 OTBI and BI Reports development
 Ability to manage systems testing including unit, QA, end to end and user acceptance testing
 Experience managing vendors to SLA’s.
 Proven experience collaborating with peers to establish best practices to achieve high service levels.
 
Skills and Competencies:
 Competencies
 Communication: Ability to influence and help communicate the organization’s direction and ensure results are achieved
 Collaboration: Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environment
 People Management: Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teams
 Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment

Tech Stack
 Development & Delivery Methods: Agile (Scaled Agile Framework)
 Development Frameworks and Languages: Java, REACT, SQL, Python
 Development Tools & Platforms: Test Automation
 DevOps and CI/CD : Azure DevOps, JFrog
 Azure: Functional Knowledge of cloud based solutions
 Security and Monitoring: Authentication/Authorization (CA SiteMinder, MS Entra, PingOne)