Principal Engineer - Application Architect

City/Cities

Cary

State(s)

North Carolina

Country

United States

Working Schedule

Full-Time

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Relocation Assistance Available

No

Posted Date

11-Dec-2023

Job ID

1174

Description and Requirements

MetLife is the leading provider of Group Benefits. The Disability Evolution Delivery organization is a diverse team of technologists, all working towards the common goal of ensuring the customer is at the center of everything we do. As a Principle Software Engineer in the Disability Evolution organization in Cary NC, you will be responsible for leading technical design and development of cross functional, multi-application, hybrid-cloud platform to solve complex business problems for our Group Disability customers and their employees. The role will be focused on ensuring the rich technical solutions are architected and delivered, increasing the maturity of our Group Disability platform. This role will be responsible for driving development delivery - technical decisions, best practices, and end to end design from development to post production support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of complex functionality spanning AWS, Azure, and on-prem integrations across Informatica, WMB, homegrown API’s, internal data platforms, and digital delivery channels

• Hands on work with requirements, application architecture, design, code, code-reviews, CI/CD, deployment, and trouble-shooting prod issues

• Participates in capability, feature and user story refinement, help manage user expectations and provide options, develop technical designs, conduct peer code reviews, develop code as necessary.

• Drive new best practices and look for continuous improvements in the delivery process

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Solution architecture on roadmaps and architecture runway.

• Diagnose and solve for technical debt in existing solutions

• Provides estimates for work efforts on new projects and work with teams on sizing features and user stories

• Mentor, motivate, drive innovation and develop existing team’s technical capabilities.

• Drive development process improvements and ensure delivery quality

• Oversight (code review, design review) of development work by multiple development teams

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required:

• 7+ years’ experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with building enterprise scale distributed and cloud or hybrid-cloud applications, with development experience with JAVA (Spring, React or Angular), SQL, Shellscripts, API’s, and a variety of databases.

• 3+ years hands-on application architecture and design experience.

• 3+ years' experience with AZURE or AWS using various solutions.

• 3+ years' experience with following or similar databases: Oracle, MongoDB, CosmosDB, and experience with BigData tools such as Hive, Hadoop.

• Understanding of Docker, AKS and containerization.

• Experience with integration tools such as MuleSoft, Websphere Message Broker, Informatica, Redis, MQ

• Experience creating strategy and process for multi release code management and CI/CD pipeline using tools similar to Subversion, Git, Bamboo, Jenkins, UCD, Nexus, Artifactory

• Experience instrumenting and using monitoring tools such as Splunk

• Experience with both waterfall, iterative and agile methodologies, and use of tools such as JIRA

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with focused attention to details, professionalism and time/task management skills, and ability to establish strong relationships.

• Prior experience leading development teams as application architect and/or development manager

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field

Preferred:

• Background working in Financial Services, Insurance and/or Banking

“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 making a difference in the lives of our customers.”

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Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. 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.

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, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2023 "World's Most Admired Companies" as well as the 2023 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 empathy, we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s#AllTogetherPossible (https://www.metlifecareers.com/ml/GreatPlaceToWork) . Join us!

Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. 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.