Lead Microsoft Power Platform 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.
The Opportunity
The Lead Platform Architect is responsible for strategic architectural oversight of MetLife's citizen developer platforms-setting guardrails and standards, proving out new capabilities, and coaching delivery teams to align to governance and approved patterns across MetLife's global COE and federated COE operating model. This is an exciting opportunity to define the blueprint for how MetLife scales low-code and AI globally, balancing speed-to-value with enterprise risk and resiliency
Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural vision, standards, and design patterns for MetLife's citizen developer platforms, including Microsoft Power Platform, in alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Enterprise Architecture, RUAI, Compliance, Security, and Platform Engineering) to define, evolve, and enforce platform guardrails and best practices.
• Design and oversee scalable, secure, and maintainable platform architectures that support global deployment and long-term growth.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging platform capabilities through proof-of-concepts, assessing business value, architectural fit, and operational impact.
• Provide architectural oversight, solution design review, and technical guidance to delivery teams, ensuring compliance with governance, performance, scalability, and security standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with 5+ years of relevant professional experience, including 3+ years implementing Power Platform and other citizen-developer platforms.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power Apps) and/or Claude CoWork in an enterprise environment.
• Strong expertise in platform and solution architecture, with the ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures.
• Proven experience integrating Power Platform solutions with enterprise systems, data sources, and applications.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex platform tradeoffs and make sound architectural decisions.
• Working knowledge of modern AI and automation concepts, sufficient to evaluate platform capabilities and guide architectural direction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise security, compliance, and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, cloud platforms, data integration, and working within governed technology environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional discussions, document architectural decisions, and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

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 $120,000 - $150,000 . 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.
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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