Lead Architect

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
Architect and design modernized platforms to replace legacy systems. Architect, design, and build comprehensive end-to-end automation capabilities. Lead the development and implementation of cloud-native applications using Azure services. Create and maintain automated data processing pipelines. Develop solutions to integrate enterprise systems and design solutions for complex web intake processes. Ensure alignment of projects with internal new frontier strategies. Support the modernized Group core applications. Maintain the integrity and efficiency of modernized applications, ensuring they continue to meet the evolving needs of business and customers. Deliver complex functionality spanning AWS, Azure, and on-premises integrations across Informatica, WMB, homegrown API's, internal data platforms, and digital delivery channels. Perform hands on work with requirements, application architecture, design, code-reviews, CI/CD, deployment, and troubleshooting production issues. Participate in capability, feature and user story refinement. Help manage user expectations and provide options, develop technical designs, conduct peer code reviews, and develop code. Drive new best practices and look for continuous improvements in the delivery process. Diagnose and solve technical debt in existing solutions.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Management Information Systems or Engineering (will accept foreign education equivalent) and ten (10) years of experience gaining technology experience. Position requires: Five (5) years of experience in architecture and design roles, including designing enterprise applications, cloud-native solutions, and system integration architectures for both on-premises and cloud environments. Three (3) years of hands-on cloud platform experience involving direct design, development, deployment, and management of applications or services on Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS), including building cloud-native applications, migrating legacy systems to the cloud, and implementing cloud-based integration solutions. Experience performing enterprise application architecture and cloud platform development using Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Experience performing enterprise system integration, API development, and automated CI/CD pipeline implementation. Experience using data integration platforms, including Informatica and middleware technologies, for complex system integrations. Experience with software development lifecycle, code review processes, and technical team leadership in Agile development environments including managing all phases of SDLC (requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance), conducting code reviews for quality assurance, and leading or mentoring technical teams in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
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 $201,913- $202,000 . 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").
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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
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