Lead Full Stack Software Engineer Global IT Accounting

About the Role

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.
• 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.
• Focus on .Net, C#, SQL, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud technologies with exposure to Java (Cloudera).
• Promote Agile DevOps enabled software development, infrastructure automation to accelerate delivery of business value.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience and knowledge of software development with strong technical understanding of designing and building enterprise scale ETL and web applications in the Cloud.
• Experience in implementing .Net, C#, SQL and exposure to Azure solutions (e.g., Azure Function, Azure Service Bus, Azure Data Factory, Databricks).
• Database skills, Design Patterns, and Performance tuning.
• Experience with event-driven and API-driven solution stack, data processing, reactive architecture.
• Experience with DevOps pipelines and 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 and ability to establish strong relationships across teams and business partners.
• Ability to build, deliver and operate complex, cloud-based systems, with Azure required.
• Experience with agile or iterative software development methodology.
• Experience with test-driven development and continuous testing.
• Full stack engineer capable of writing object-oriented, maintainable code.
• Strong technical background with ability to guide junior associates.
• Excellent analysis, communication, problem solving, process improvement and leadership skills.
• Ability to work independently or on a team, drive solutions with minimal supervision, and be highly motivated.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.

Nice to Have

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health plan including medical, prescription drug, vision, and dental insurance.
• No-cost short- and long-term disability.
• Company-paid life insurance and legal services.
• Retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching.
• Group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto, home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs.
• Parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance, and more.