This role involves designing and implementing complex technology projects, collaborating with teams, developing APIs, and managing cloud-based applications, ensuring high performance and compliance with standards.
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
Design and implement large and complex technology projects at a global scale, applying product-centric technical expertise to navigate complex deployments with multiple systems and teams. Collaborate with business and IT partners in the design and implementation of complex distributed applications. Contribute to the technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Convert business problems into programming instructions. Design and code programs, create test transactions, and run tests as necessary. Monitor operating efficiency of existing application systems. Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging, and installing for a large-scale system. Provide technical support to project teams throughout project lifecycle around technology platforms, solution design, security, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning. Provide governance over development teams to ensure that standards and best practices are being followed.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience designing applications and systems at web scale. Specific skills/other requirements - must also possess experience in the following: Designing enterprise APIs and documenting them in OpenAPI Specification. Developing enterprise APIs in Microservices architecture using Java, Groovy and Spring Cloud framework. Designing and implementing DevOps Pipelines for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of code in a cloud computing environment. Building, deploying, and managing Containerized Applications in Azure cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio service mesh. Monitoring and analyzing performance of complex distributed applications using Splunk and AppDynamics Observability Platform.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $135,086.00 - $ 175,600.00 . 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.
#BI-Hybrid
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
Design and implement large and complex technology projects at a global scale, applying product-centric technical expertise to navigate complex deployments with multiple systems and teams. Collaborate with business and IT partners in the design and implementation of complex distributed applications. Contribute to the technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Convert business problems into programming instructions. Design and code programs, create test transactions, and run tests as necessary. Monitor operating efficiency of existing application systems. Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging, and installing for a large-scale system. Provide technical support to project teams throughout project lifecycle around technology platforms, solution design, security, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning. Provide governance over development teams to ensure that standards and best practices are being followed.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience designing applications and systems at web scale. Specific skills/other requirements - must also possess experience in the following: Designing enterprise APIs and documenting them in OpenAPI Specification. Developing enterprise APIs in Microservices architecture using Java, Groovy and Spring Cloud framework. Designing and implementing DevOps Pipelines for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of code in a cloud computing environment. Building, deploying, and managing Containerized Applications in Azure cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio service mesh. Monitoring and analyzing performance of complex distributed applications using Splunk and AppDynamics Observability Platform.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $135,086.00 - $ 175,600.00 . 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.
#BI-Hybrid
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