Software Platform Engineer II

Role Value Proposition :

Being a leader in the Group Benefit space, MetLife always is in search of top talent who are driven by the purpose of providing excellent customer experience, ready for new challenges, and always focused on providing simplified solutions to complex problems. The Group Benefits area in MetLife is growing and the Q2S team is looking for an energetic and motivated Software Engineer who is forward-focused, not afraid of experimentation and a team player. In this role, you will be working on a few of the most exciting group business applications, collaborating and interfacing with partners to deliver on enterprise-level strategic initiatives. Your work will make an impact on how MetLife fulfills its promises to the customer and you will have excellent opportunities to interact and contribute to the group's success.

The Opportunity:

The role will be a highly visible hands-on technology driver supporting platform product development by creating innovative solutions, as well as driving solutions that modernize, stabilize, and support the growth of our portfolio. You will interact with the Agile Release Team (ART), senior Business and IT Leaders, and IT partners, providing technical support throughout the Agile lifecycle. The focus will include solution design, development, CICD, automation, security assessment and resolution, and performance tuning. You will engage with multiple concurrent teams and provide governance to ensure that standards and best practices are followed.

Key Responsibilities :

Design, develop, implement, and maintain the application using distributed/Front-End technologies including leading a team of engineers working in the onshore-offshore model.

Write/update the technical and system documentation explaining in detail the changes that are done and their impact.

Prepare test scenarios, test cases, and test data, execute the testing, and document the results following the standard project processes.

Collaborate with –

• Development team members (including offshore consultants) in designing, developing, and testing the system modification using the SAFe agile principle and cadence.
• Business Systems/Functional Analyst in brainstorming sessions, refining use cases, providing technical inputs, and reviewing acceptance criteria of each feature and user story.
• Business teams in requirement gathering, acquiring system knowledge to deliver better software
• Partnering with applications in understanding, designing, and agreeing to the interface requirements
• Project leads and program leads deliver strategic initiatives with the highest quality.

Support Integration, End to End, and User Acceptance Testing at the overall project or program level.

Be innovative and always ready to learn new skills.

Education :

• 
  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Experience : 5 to 6

Technical Skill :

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in software development with a strong technical understanding of designing and building enterprise-scale on-prem and cloud-native applications.
• 5+ years of distributed front-end and back-end application development with Java, Typescript/Javascript, Sprint, Spring Boot, ReacjJS, NodeJS, Aws/Azure, Rest API services, and Cloud native services like AKS, and Azure web apps.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and cloud architecture.
• Experienced with DevSecOps practices, code management, code branching, Azure based CI/CD.
• Experience with no-SQL (like MongoDB), Oracle, SQL Server, or similar database platforms, Container-based development leveraging Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as ability to establish strong relationships across teams to effectively deliver work across the enterprise.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a similarly related field.

Preferred:

• 7+ years’ experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise-scale mainframe applications
• IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) hands-on knowledge.
• Experience in test-first practices, including Test Drive Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
• 2+ years of distributed systems development with some of the following: JAVA/J2EE, SQL (PL/SQL), XML, HTML, shell scripts and the following frameworks/technologies: AngularJS, Node js, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, UCD, Artifactory, Gradle/Groovy, Splunk, AppDynamics.
• SAFe 6.0 or higher certified.
• Experience in Group Benefits.

Other Critical Requirements Like Voice/Non-Voice for Insurance :

SAFe for Teams

SAFe Scrum Master Certification (SSM)

• Collaboration
• Communication/Presentation
• Agile Practices
• DevSecOps, CI/CD
• Collaboration Tools
• Product/Business/Industry

Knowledge

• Customer 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”

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, 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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!