Director - Software Development

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
Seeking a Director of Software engineering who is passionate delivering the right solutions in support of driving great products supporting millions of employees in the United States. Someone who'll take ownership in delivery of our Disability and Absence product features while driving technical maturity, and instituting best practices in product engineering. Individual will be a leader who brings passion, joy, and a positive energy to solve complex business and technical problems in a fast-paced delivery environment. You should have a broad set of skills and enjoy going deep where needed - be it diagnosing a legacy application having heap and GC issues or figuring out the best way to build a data pipeline or coming up with a new AI solution for a business problem. You will be managing delivery across an Agile Release Train consisting of teams of full-stack engineers, testers, devops and SRE engineers in support of an entire solution train. You'll work with within a large ecosystem with multiple platforms supporting our products - everything from legacy JAVA and mainframe apps to cutting edge GenAI based cloud apps and microservices across AWS and Azure with multiple data and integration technologies. You will be working in an Agile SAFe environment, working closely with Product management, and other ART IT leaders to deliver features, support production, support new customer onboarding, testing and drive the roadmap for maturing our organization's engineering skills and processes.
Key Responsibilities:

• Technology leader responsible for application feature delivery for our Digital portals, AI experiments and devOps teams.
• Application and budget ownership - Application security & currency, team resource staffing
• Collaborate with Product management on roadmaps and negotiate delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Platform teams to implement solutions
• Communicate plans, and progress to a variety of stakeholders across the organization
• Utilize Agile software development metrics, maintenance metrics and KPIs to help optimize product delivery
• People/Resource/vendor Management (hiring, development, engaging talent, utilization)

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• 7+ plus years in software engineering.
• 5+ years in managing a team of technologists.
• Experience in developing and operating n-tier, cloud, on-prem, or hybrid systems of engagement and systems of record.
• Experience in creating technical roadmaps with multiple stakeholders (Product Mgmt, architecture, Ops)
• Knowledge of secure coding, DevOps, Testing, and SRE practices.
• Knowledge of JAVA, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, YAML, and other languages.
• Proficiency with various database technologies and solutions, including both SQL and NoSQL
• Proficiency with integration technologies and patterns (MQ, Kafka, API, ETL)
• Passion for technology, deliberately bringing technology into your own life
• Experience in coaching teams to break down business problems into models, features, user stories and associated technical system design.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in managing effective teams through development opportunities, recognition, and feedback for both onshore and offshore teams.
• Cross-functional leadership: organize, motivate, and lead those outside of the team

Preferred:

• Master's degree in computer science or related field
• Understanding and proficiency in monitoring tools
• Experience with applying AI for Software Development
• Container-based development leveraging Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Microsoft Azure Services: Functions, Kubernetes, CosmosDB, Storage, App Service

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.
The salary range for applicants for this position is $140,000 - $180,000.
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 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2024 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 . Join us!
Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans
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.
$140,000 - $180,000
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