Role Value Proposition -
MetLife is the leading provider of Group Benefits. The Group Disability technology organization is a diverse team of technologists, all working towards the common goal of ensuring the customer is at the center of everything we do. As a Full Stack Software Engineer in the Group Disability technology organization, you will leverage your technical expertise to solve complex business problems. You will lead technical design and development of a cross functional, multi-application platform for our Group Group Disability customers and their employees. This role will be responsible for development as well as driving technical decisions and best practices within the Group Disability mainframe technology stack.
Key Responsibilities -
Develop complex functionality on the Group Disability claims platform and integrate with other MetLife systems as part of an Agile scrum team
Partner across MetLife development teams to craft end to end technical solutions
Participate in fit/gap analysis of requirements, help manage user expectations and provide options, develop technical designs, conduct peer code reviews, write code
Agile Sprint planning, including estimation, user story breakdown, user story review & feedback
Deployment support
Create and update necessary technical documentation
Support diagnosis and remediation of production issues
Diagnose, document, and correct/upgrade technical debt
Mentor, motivate, influence, drive innovation, and coach broader technical team
Work effectively in a matrixed organization to diagnose issues, solve problems, and deliver solutions
Education -
Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field
Experience -
2 to 4
Technical Skill -
Required:
3+ years experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise scale mainframe applications
Hands on development experience with COBOL, XML, CICS, JCL, SQL, VSAM, Changeman, File Manager, TSO, FTP, Fault Analyzer, Xpediter, MQ
Experience with DB2 or similar databases and SQL
Experience with waterfall, iterative and agile methodologies, and tools like JIRA or Azure DevOps
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with focused attention to details, as well as, demonstrated professionalism and time/task management skills; ability to establish strong relationships.
Preferred (Nice to Have):
4+ years experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise scale mainframe applications
Background working in Insurance and/or Financial Services
Experience driving DevOps adoption
Experience in test-first practices, including Test Drive Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
1+ years of distributed systems development with some of the following: JAVA/J2EE, SQL (PL/SQL), XML, HTML, shell scripts and the following frameworks/technologies: Spring, AngularJS, Node js, AWS
Experience with integration tools such as MuleSoft, WebSphere Message Broker, Informatica, Redis
Experience creating strategy and process for managing Continuous Delivery Pipeline using tools like: Subversion, Git, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, UCD, Nexus, Artifactory, Gradle/Groovy
Experience instrumenting and using monitoring tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics
Other Critical Requirements Like Voice/Non-Voice for Insurance -
- Collaboration
Communication/Presentation
Agile Practices
DevSecOps, CI/CD
Collaboration Tools
Product/Business/Industry experience
Application Design/Architecture
Cloud Native Technologies
Applicable Development Language
Database Development tools
Secure design and coding practices
Writing & executing automated tests
Application operations/monitoring
Design with Feature Flags
