Lead Full Stack Software Engineer - Global IT Accounting

Description and Requirements

The Team You Will Join

MetLife is on a transformational journey into the New Frontier. Working closely with our business partners, we are embarking on a transformation that will drive a holistic and cohesive product aligned model, enabled by an end-to-end delivery capability to drive our highest impact enterprise strategic agenda. Within MetLife Investments IT, our team assists our IT and business partners in solving complex operational challenges by rapidly delivering lasting transformations with speed and discipline. Driven by passion and purpose, you will be instrumental in driving change and implementing MetLife's product model for our businesses while aligning our brand and technology to bring immediate value to our customers and partners.

The Opportunity

Join the MetLife Investments IT team with a unique opportunity to work on an array of technologies like .NET, C#, SQL, Azure, and so much more, while learning and working on Global Investment Accounting Applications.

MetLife Investments IT is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer. The ideal candidate will possess strong development and engineering capabilities, communication, collaboration, with hands-on experience implementing Investments and Finance data domains by enabling continuous delivery techniques within cloud infrastructure. Solid understanding of best practices and developer enablement required.

How You'll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Leads the technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms.
• Partner with Product Manager in planning business outcomes and prioritizing for impact within the securities and mortgage asset classes as well as the investment application technology platform.
• Lead discovery sessions to observe, document, and validate business processes and capture key insights for complex product/system.
• Perform gap analysis and recommend solutions. Lead the implementation, testing, integration and issue resolution.
• Responsible for development of specific software/platform components and unit testing for such components.
• Elicit, analyze, and document technical specifications and functional requirements and rules. Decompose complex requirements, create functional specifications for complex products. Lead the rationalization of the backlog.
• Lead operational and production support with ability to troubleshoot issues and perform root cause analysis in the business workflow and processes on a variety of complex production and application issues.
• Monitor performance, identifying underlying problems, researching potential solutions, and propose necessary actions in a complex business workflow and processes as well as work with vendor suppliers in resolutions.
• Work with vendor product owners to represent MetLife needs, bring back vendor issues/ enhancements and lead analysis of impact to MetLife functions. Participate in vendor selections using a commercial mindset.
• Present and develop architecture documents for accounting applications and work with System Architecture on any proposed changes
• Model and advocate for best practices within AI technologies, DevOps, agile, and cloud computing.
• Interact with data warehousing and front office, middle office, and enterprise risk applications.
• This role is primarily focused on .Net, C#, SQL, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud technologies with exposure to Java (Cloudera).
• This individual needs to have a passion for Agile DevOps enabled software development, infrastructure automation to accelerate the team's delivery of business value with speed and discipline.

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

• 7+ years of experience in software development with strong technical understanding of designing and building enterprise scale ETL and web applications in the Cloud, including most of the following:

• Software development preferably in implementing .Net, C#, SQL and exposure to Azure solutions (ex. Azure Function, Azure Service Bus, Azure Data Factory, and/or Databricks).
• Database skills, Design Patterns, and Performance tuning.
• Event-driven and API-driven solution stack, data processing, reactive architecture.
• DevOps pipelines, and/or Infrastructure automation.

• At least 4 years of project lead/project management experience with 2+ years in technology strategy, internal strategy, business engagement, and/or product strategy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as ability to establish strong relationships across teams and business partners to effectively deliver work across the enterprise.
• Ability to build, deliver and operate complex, cloud-based systems, Azure required.
• Ability to follow an agile or iterative software development methodology.
• Experience with test-driven development and continuous testing.
• Full stack engineer with ability to write object-oriented, self-documenting, maintainable code.
• Strong technical background with ability to guide junior associates.
• Excellent analysis, communication, problem solving, process improvement and leadership skills.
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models and technologies.
• Ability to work independently or on a team, drive solutions with minimal supervision, be highly motivated and a quick learner.
• Ability to translate broad customer, product and/or business next generation strategies into business & technology transformational solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize business outcomes and high-level business requirements into clear feature breakdown and prioritization including writing user stories.
• Experience working in a complex global organization with proven effectiveness operating in a global company spanning multiple business units.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline required.

Preferred Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in financial domains related to accounting, securities, mortgages.
• Advanced education degree of master's or higher preferred.
• Experience working in Financial Services or with investment products is preferred. Experience with PAM is a plus.
• Exposure to modern AI concepts such as generative AI, various models of machine learning, large language models, conversational AI (chatbot, etc.), and co-pilot applications.
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and Azure certifications are a plus.

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", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces for 2024, as well as the 2025 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!

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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