Sr. Architect - Data & AI Platform Strategy

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 Senior Architect - Platform & Performance Management is responsible for defining and advancing the conceptual and technical architecture models that enable scalable, reliable, and insight-driven data and platform capabilities across MetLife's Global Technology and Data & Intelligence ecosystem. This role is critical to ensuring that Performance & Platform Management capabilities deliver consistent, measurable value by aligning platform design, data architecture, and operational insights to enterprise priorities, enabling transparency, efficiency, and informed decision-making across the organization.
This role supports the Global Technology and Data & Intelligence Platform functions, partnering across engineering, product, and business teams to establish architecture standards, design patterns, and integrated data models that drive platform performance, measurement foundations, and enterprise visibility.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the architectural foundation for how platform performance is measured, understood, and optimized-enabling real-time insights and driving strategic outcomes across a global enterprise.
Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead conceptual and logical architecture models that enable Performance & Platform Management capabilities, including measurement foundations, platform utilization insights, and enterprise visibility (e.g., Visibility Data Warehouse), ensuring alignment to business outcomes and global data strategy.
• Establish and govern scalable architecture patterns for data, AI, and API-driven integrations, enabling seamless connectivity across operational platforms, analytics environments, and enterprise systems while ensuring performance, reliability, and reusability.
• Drive integration of AI/ML-enabled insights and advanced analytics into platform performance and operational workflows, enabling predictive, real-time decision-making and enhancing enterprise-wide transparency and efficiency.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into architecture solutions, aligning platform capabilities to KPIs, executive reporting needs, and continuous improvement initiatives across Global Technology.
• Support the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)-from architecture and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and optimization-ensuring architectural integrity, adherence to standards, and continuous performance improvement across platform and data solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field experience; advanced degree preferred
• 4+ years of experience in architecture, data platforms, or performance/operational analytics environments
• Demonstrated expertise in data architecture, API integrations, and/or modern platform technologies, including cloud-native and AI/ML capabilities
• Strong ability to translate business strategy into scalable technical solutions, with experience partnering across product, engineering, and executive stakeholders
• Proven experience supporting end-to-end solution delivery within Agile/SDLC frameworks, with a focus on performance optimization, governance, and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise data and integration tools such as Informatica, Maestro, and ERwin, including data modeling, lineage, governance, and metadata management practices
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud architecture and/or development, including data services, integration patterns, and scalable, cloud-native platform design
• Experience implementing advanced AI integration and insight frameworks, enabling predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and real-time business insights across platform and performance management use cases

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 $105,000 - $120,000 . 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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