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MetLife Principal Engineer - Application Architect in Cary, North Carolina
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.
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.