MetLife

Role Value Proposition:

MetLife is seeking a Senior Engineer to support the growing focus on speed and discipline to deliver on the New Frontier Strategy and deliver highly impactful and engaging digital experiences for our customers, which will generate strong and enduring relationships aligned with the MetLife brand.  This role within the Application Solution team involves managing and delivering solutions for Vendor Package applications using automation.

This role requires experience in solution architecture, leading a technical team during implementation, driving technology initiatives, and coordinating with various teams, including vendors.

The candidate will design, build, deploy, and support the critical platforms for the Application Solutions team. They will produce design documents and code, provide training, co-development, consultation, and reference implementations for development teams. The role involves working closely with business stakeholders, product managers, vendors, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate, own, and drive technology initiatives that progress the overall engineering foundation along people, process, and tech dimensions.
• Participate in architecture selection, software design, execution, and operations at the solution level, enabling the business to operationalize the day-to-day functions of the Application/Platform.
• Identify appropriate technology stacks following Enterprise standards and incorporate them into sound technical designs.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD solutions to enable Agile SDLC within a DevOps context with a focus on scalability and increased pace of delivery.
• Driving significant technology initiatives end-to-end and across multiple layers of technology.
• Passionate about continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills: 

Required: 

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining systems/software for large-scale technology operations in both Windows and Linux/ Unix infrastructure
• Proven experience in designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
• Strong technical background with hands-on system architecture experience 
• Track record of successfully managing shared infrastructure while partnering with multiple stakeholders across different countries 

Preferred: 

• Certification in Ansible, Elastic, RedHat, and Windows admin 
• Prior working experience in financial services and/or the cloud computing domain is highly desired
• Experience with multiple vendor products (Trillium, Collibra, MainView, Defender, Product builder, Clarity, QlickView, etc.)
• SAFe/Agile Certification

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 make a difference in the lives of our customers.