Lead architecture, modernization, and development of Group Insurance applications. Modernize mainframe monoliths into Java microservices and micro-frontends on cloud, mentor distributed Agile teams, collaborate with enterprise architecture, product owners and infrastructure, and enable test automation and integrations. Approximately 10% domestic travel.
Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
When you join MetLife's Global Technology team, you'll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You'll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life's most important moments. In this dynamic environment, you'll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.
Key Responsibilities
Architect, design, develop, implement and maintain Group Insurance applications using cloud technologies including technical leadership of a team of engineers working in an Agile onshore-offshore model. Lead the modernization efforts of the application set to increase agility to handle ever changing policy and regulatory provisions. Modernize a monolithic JAVA/COBOL/CICS/VSAM/DB2 application into a Java/Microservices/Micro-frontend/Salesforce.com on cloud. Collaborate with enterprise Architecture to ensure adherence to corporate strategy and establishment of guardrails for development teams to operate within. Collaborate with development team members (including offshore consultants) in designing, developing, and testing the system modification. Collaborate with Mainframe & Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. Collaborate with partnering applications in understanding, designing, and agreeing to the interface requirements. Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, Application Owners, and Release Train Engineers. Drive application changes to enable test automation efforts that will support integration, end to end, and user acceptance testing at the overall project or program level.
10% domestic travel required.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field (will accept foreign education equivalent) and eight (8) years of application architecture and development experience in related occupation working with JAVA, Node, Integrations, SSO, Python, JavaScript, UI Frameworks, NoSQL, Salesforce.com, AI / ML and RDBMS databases in On-prem and Cloud environments. Position requires: Demonstrated experience using industry-standard tools, methodologies, and programming languages including Python, Java, Node, and/or cloud technologies like AWS or Azure, and DevOps practices. Demonstrated experience identifying, analyzing, and solving complex, unique technical challenges through critical thinking and innovation. Demonstrated experience on Integration patterns and Single Sign-On. Demonstrated experience multi-tasking effectively and working in an open, collaborative environment to support both individual and team objectives. Demonstrated experience working in a multi-site onshore-offshore model, including mentoring and guiding multiple geographically dispersed Agile development teams. Demonstrated experience applying AI or Workflow (BPM) tools to enhance engineering decision-making and modeling
The expected salary range for this position is $210,000 . This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
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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, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the 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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. 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.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities.
The Team You Will Join
When you join MetLife's Global Technology team, you'll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You'll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life's most important moments. In this dynamic environment, you'll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.
Key Responsibilities
Architect, design, develop, implement and maintain Group Insurance applications using cloud technologies including technical leadership of a team of engineers working in an Agile onshore-offshore model. Lead the modernization efforts of the application set to increase agility to handle ever changing policy and regulatory provisions. Modernize a monolithic JAVA/COBOL/CICS/VSAM/DB2 application into a Java/Microservices/Micro-frontend/Salesforce.com on cloud. Collaborate with enterprise Architecture to ensure adherence to corporate strategy and establishment of guardrails for development teams to operate within. Collaborate with development team members (including offshore consultants) in designing, developing, and testing the system modification. Collaborate with Mainframe & Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. Collaborate with partnering applications in understanding, designing, and agreeing to the interface requirements. Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, Application Owners, and Release Train Engineers. Drive application changes to enable test automation efforts that will support integration, end to end, and user acceptance testing at the overall project or program level.
10% domestic travel required.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field (will accept foreign education equivalent) and eight (8) years of application architecture and development experience in related occupation working with JAVA, Node, Integrations, SSO, Python, JavaScript, UI Frameworks, NoSQL, Salesforce.com, AI / ML and RDBMS databases in On-prem and Cloud environments. Position requires: Demonstrated experience using industry-standard tools, methodologies, and programming languages including Python, Java, Node, and/or cloud technologies like AWS or Azure, and DevOps practices. Demonstrated experience identifying, analyzing, and solving complex, unique technical challenges through critical thinking and innovation. Demonstrated experience on Integration patterns and Single Sign-On. Demonstrated experience multi-tasking effectively and working in an open, collaborative environment to support both individual and team objectives. Demonstrated experience working in a multi-site onshore-offshore model, including mentoring and guiding multiple geographically dispersed Agile development teams. Demonstrated experience applying AI or Workflow (BPM) tools to enhance engineering decision-making and modeling
The expected salary range for this position is $210,000 . This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
#LI-DNI
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, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the 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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. 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.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities.
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