Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
MetLife's group business has a very complex IT eco-system with business processes and functions enabled through a complex web of applications. These applications interact with each other using a plethora of interfacing components. These components have been built, enhanced and extended over a period of time to cater to changing business requirements. To alleviate this complex nature of data exchange MetLife has embarked on an initiative to streamline the interfaces. When implemented, the streamlined interfaces will simplify the integration environment, speed up project delivery, and lower project costs. In addition to system simplification MetLife is also embarking on new growth areas which require external facing API's. This position will be responsible for driving the technical solution across simplification projects, external API's and ensure the service integration team is at the forefront of integration best practices and technologies.
MetLife is seeking Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer to join our growing team in Cary, North Carolina. Our teams are building and enhancing software in support of MetLife's leading U.S. based Insurance business. The Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for software development activities on one or more projects of moderate to high complexity. In this role you will be responsible for the successful completion of technical deliverables (including detailed technical design, code development), software development, unit testing process and ensuring quality standards are met by both onshore and offshore teams. The Sr. Technical lead integration participates in the technical design, development and implementation of application systems, and may have customer interaction. In this position you will have the opportunity to put your experience and education to work in an energetic and highly collaborative environment where diverse thought and experiences are valued. You will serve as mentor for more junior team members helping them learn and grow.
Key Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for all technical decisions and deliverables on an integration project.
• Ensure all tasks and milestones associated with technical design, development and unit testing are completed according to project management guidelines
• Hands on development activities are aligned with scope, schedule, priority and business objectives
• Review functional specifications, create detailed technical design and technical specifications, and oversee code development and unit and performance testing activities
• Coordinate all operational/infrastructure readiness requirements (e.g., operations engineering, performance, risk management)
• Interface with system designers to design, code, test, and implement integrations
• Perform defect analysis and Prioritizing defects during releases
• Document deployment tasks
• Prepare operating procedures documentation and participate in knowledge transfer to Operations
• Determining the integration approach for all new projects
• Attending project joint application design (JAD) sessions to support estimating solutions for projects
• Reviewing and providing feedback on requirements
• Engaging enterprise architecture about design decisions
• Prioritizing defects during releases
• Signing off on test plans, functional testing and performance testing
• Defining integration architecture standards and guidelines

This position is accountable for:

• Driving technical expertise for the enterprise in the API design and develop integration domain
• Reviewing and approving business requirements
• Defining the microservices architecture for each project
• Approving design standards
• Overseeing use cases for integration services
• Overseeing and approving technical design documents
• Overseeing and approving service schema definitions
• Hands on development of APIs on spring boot on Azure cloud
• Conducting code reviews

This position contributes to:

• Release planning
• Requirements definition
• Non-functional requirements definition
• Development support
• Testing support
• Performance Testing support and service tuning
• Implementation Back-out plan approval
• Deployment plan approval
• Project management
• Integration Roadmap planning
• Staff performance feedback
• Status reporting
• Issue escalation
• Resource planning
• Developing templates for all SDLC phases
• Group integration strategy updates
• This position will have internal and external customer interaction.
• Performs related duties as assigned or requested.

Supervisory Responsibilities :

• None.
• Mentor junior staff.
• Reviews work products from team and vendor consultants.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Experience:
Required Experience :

• Master's/Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field
• 5+ years' experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise-scale applications.
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on coding skills in Java, JSP, Spring Framework, Spring boot API REST Micro services on open API spec is mandatory. Strong knowledge of Integration
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on designing, developing and deploying solutions on Azure cloud environment on AKS, Azure Synapse, ADLS, Azure ADF, Azure Cosmos Database/Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure event hub and APIM.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and concepts using YAML. (e.g., Azure Pipelines).
• MQ/Kafka Knowledge
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Azure Kubernetes, OpenShift or similar Cloud experience.
• AI knowledge to automate the coding and testing
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Azure Kubernetes, OpenShift or similar Cloud experience.
• 3 years of Micro services design/development using docker, kubernetes and cloud

Preferred Experience:

• 5 years' experience with a fortune 500 company or major consulting firm
• 5 years' experience Service Oriented Architecture
• 5 years' experience Multi-system architecture
• 5 years' experience with off-shore development
• 3 years Insurance or other financial services industry is a plus but not required
• Experience with KAFKA and other open source messaging toolsets

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" 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!
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