principal Software engineer

Requirements

Description and Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Position Summary

The MetLife Corporate Technology (CT) organization is evolving to enable MetLife’s New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a global function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key corporate functions within MetLife including, Finance, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Legal, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Risk, Treasury, Audit and Compliance. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.

As part of Tech Talent Transformation (T3) agenda, MetLife is establishing a Technology Center in India. This technology center will perform as an integrated organization between onshore, offshore, and strategic vendor partners in an Agile delivery model.

We are seeking a highly skilled hands-on delivery engineer who is responsible for partnering with Internal Audit Leaders, third party vendors and IT Executives to lead global transformation projects with the goal of attracting, developing and retaining talent across the organization. This position will be a part of a fast-paced IT team leveraging technology expertise that spans across Java, REACT, Python, Azure and AI .

He/she should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.

Key Relationships

Internal Stake Holder – Corporate Technology Control Functions Leader, Control Functions Leadership team, India Corporate Technology AVP, and Business process Owners for Internal Audit

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management - Managing key business stakeholders to deliver required technology capabilities to support the digital transformation agenda. Driving prioritization of the product backlog. This includes managing key vendors providing the resources, SaaS & other capabilities.
• Technology Implementation – Implement and support projects on Internal Audit Technology platforms, specifically Azure Cloud.
• Ways of Working – Adoption of the Agile ways of working in the software delivery lifecycle.
• E2E Software Lifecycle Management (Architecture, Design, Development, Testing & Production)
• Evaluate/Implement technical solutions supporting Internal Audit and SAAS based solutions, talent development, performance management, and workforce analytic
• Work with Functional Experts to translate user requirements into Technical Specifications
• Partner with internal business process owners, technical team members, and senior management throughout the project life cycle
• Act as the intermediary to facilitate a clear understanding among all parties about business assumptions and requirements, design, technical, testing, and production migration requirements
• Drive the resolution and troubleshooting of issues during development and post- production support.
• Responsible to Support Day-to-day business enhancements
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Education

• A Bachelors/masters degree in computer science or equivalent Engineering degree.
  
  
  

Candidate Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field
  
  
  

Experience:

Required:

• 10 + years of experience in Controls Technology (Compliance, Audit, Legal, Risk) implementation & support; preferably cloud based solutions
• Global SAAS based GRC or other control functions technology implementation experience ( e.g. OpenPages, Archer, ServiceNow)
• Familiar with technology landscape supporting integration solutions such as Azure, Databricks, API Management
• Prior lead role or project management experience
• Experience in both front-end ( e.g. REACT) and back-end technologies ( e.g. Node.js, Python, Java), including Restful API design and microservices architecture
• Experience with MS Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and related project delivery utilities.
  
  
  

Preferred:

• Azure Cloud Certifications
• OTBI and BI Reports development
• Ability to manage systems testing including unit, QA, end to end and user acceptance testing
• Experience managing vendors to SLA’s .
• Proven experience collaborating with peers to establish best practices to achieve high service levels.
  
  
  

Skills and Competencies:

Competencies

• Communication: Ability to influence and help communicate the organization’s direction and ensure results are achieved
• Collaboration: Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environment
• People Management: Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teams
• Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment
  
  
  

Tech Stack

Development & Delivery Methods:

Agile (Scaled Agile Framework)

DevOps and CI/CD

Azure DevOps, JFrog

Development Frameworks and Languages:

Java

REACT

SQL

Python

Azure :

Functional Knowledge of cloud based solutions

Development Tools & Platforms

Test Automation

Security and Monitoring:

Authentication/Authorization (CA SiteMinder, MS Entra, PingOne )  

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazines list of the 2025 "Worlds Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, 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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