Lead Microsoft Power Platform Engineer

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 Engineer is responsible for serving as the enterprise platform owner for citizen developer platforms, translating architectural direction and governance guardrails into secure, scalable, and compliant platform configurations that enable innovation while protecting the enterprise across MetLife's global technology landscape. This role supports platform configuration, operational controls, and technical governance implementation across regions and environments globally. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and operate foundational platforms at enterprise scale, guiding federated teams worldwide and ensuring MetLife's citizen developer ecosystem grows securely, consistently, and sustainably.
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead platform administrator for Microsoft Power Platform and other approved citizen developer platforms, owning enterprise-wide platform operations and governance.
• Define, implement, and enforce platform governance controls, including environment strategy, security, access management, DLP policies, compliance, and operational standards.
• Lead global platform administration activities, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, security, and adherence to enterprise guardrails.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to platform administrators and regional platform teams, promoting consistent administration and governance practices.
• Own the evaluation and rollout of new platform capabilities, governance features, and operational controls, ensuring readiness for enterprise adoption.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex platform, security, compliance, and tenant administration issues.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement of governance, monitoring, auditing, reporting, and platform lifecycle management processes.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to translate governance requirements into sustainable platform controls and operational processes.
• Establish and track platform operational, governance, and adoption metrics, driving accountability and continuous improvement across the platform ecosystem.
• Lead governance reviews and administration assessments to ensure platform usage aligns with enterprise standards, risk controls, and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with 7+ years of professional experience, including 3+ years designing, implementing, and administering Microsoft Power Platform and other citizen developer platforms.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio), including environments, policies, connectors, licensing, governance controls, and tenant administration within a large global enterprise.
• Strong expertise in platform governance, administration, and operational management, with a deep understanding of security, compliance, risk controls, scalability, and enterprise adoption.
• Proven experience leading technical proofs of concept, platform evaluations, and rollout of new capabilities, assessing business value, governance implications, and operational readiness.
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring platform engineers and administrators while driving platform standards, best practices, and governance adoption across distributed teams.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to lead resolution of complex platform, security, compliance, and operational issues while influencing stakeholders across Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Engineering organizations.
• Experience driving automation, monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform reliability, governance effectiveness, and operational efficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate architectural standards, governance requirements, and enterprise guardrails into scalable platform controls, administrative processes, and operational practices.
• Extensive experience implementing, administering, and governing Microsoft Power Platform and other citizen developer platforms in large, global enterprise environments, including multi-region and federated operating models.
• Hands-on experience with AI, automation, and citizen developer platforms (e.g., Copilot Studio, Claude CoWork, Pega), with strong knowledge of cloud platforms, security, identity and access management, integrations, and enterprise governance.

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 $125,000 - $155,000 . 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! For more information regarding MetLife's U.S. benefits, please click here .
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.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
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.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 3 days from the listed posting date.
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