Requirements

Description and Requirements

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 Relationships

Internal Stake Holder – Corporate Technology Control Functions Leader, Control Functions Leadership team, India Corporate Technology AVP, and Business process Owners for Internal Audit

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

Experience:

Required:

2+ 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)

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, 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!

Software Platform Engineer II