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MetLife Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer in Cary, North Carolina
Role Value Proposition:
MetLife’s group business has a very complex IT eco-system with business processes and functions enabled through a complex web of applications. These applications interact with each other using a plethora of interfacing components. These components have been built, enhanced and extended over a period of time to cater to changing business requirements. To alleviate this complex nature of data exchange MetLife has embarked on an initiative to streamline the interfaces. When implemented, the streamlined interfaces will simplify the integration environment, speed up project delivery, and lower project costs. In addition to system simplification MetLife is also embarking on new growth areas which require external facing API’s. This position will be responsible for driving the technical solution across simplification projects, external API’s and ensure the service integration team is at the forefront of integration best practices and technologies.
MetLife is seeking Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer to join our growing team in Cary, North Carolina. Our teams are building and enhancing software in support of MetLife’s leading U.S. based Insurance business. The Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for software development activities on one or more projects of moderate to high complexity. In this role you will be responsible for the successful completion of technical deliverables (including detailed technical design, code development), software development, unit testing process and ensuring quality standards are met by both onshore and offshore teams. The Sr. Technical lead integration participates in the technical design, development and implementation of application systems, and may have customer interaction. In this position you will have the opportunity to put your experience and education to work in an energetic and highly collaborative environment where diverse thought and experiences are valued. You will serve as mentor for more junior team members helping them learn and grow.
Key Responsibilities:
Primary point of contact for all technical decisions and deliverables on an integration project.
Ensure all tasks and milestones associated with technical design, development and unit testing are completed according to project management guidelines
Hands on development activities are aligned with scope, schedule, priority and business objectives
Review functional specifications, create detailed technical design and technical specifications, and oversee code development and unit and performance testing activities
Coordinate all operational/infrastructure readiness requirements (e.g., operations engineering, performance, risk management)
Interface with system designers to design, code, test, and implement integrations
Perform defect analysis and Prioritizing defects during releases
Document deployment tasks
Prepare operating procedures documentation and participate in knowledge transfer to Operations
Determining the integration approach for all new projects
Attending project joint application design (JAD) sessions to support estimating solutions for projects
Reviewing and providing feedback on requirements
Engaging enterprise architecture about design decisions
Prioritizing defects during releases
Signing off on test plans, functional testing and performance testing
Defining integration architecture standards and guidelines
This position is accountable for:
Driving technical expertise for the enterprise in the API design and develop integration domain
Reviewing and approving business requirements
Defining the microservices architecture for each project
Approving design standards
Overseeing use cases for integration services
Overseeing and approving technical design documents
Overseeing and approving service schema definitions
Hands on development of APIs on spring boot on Azure cloud
Conducting code reviews
This position contributes to:
Release planning
Requirements definition
Non-functional requirements definition
Development support
Testing support
Performance Testing support and service tuning
Implementation Back-out plan approval
Deployment plan approval
Project management
Integration Roadmap planning
Staff performance feedback
Status reporting
Issue escalation
Resource planning
Developing templates for all SDLC phases
Group integration strategy updates
This position will have internal and external customer interaction.
Performs related duties as assigned or requested.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None.
Mentor junior staff.
Reviews work products from team and vendor consultants.
Essential Business Experience and Technical Experience:
Required Experience:
Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field
5+ years' experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise-scale applications.
Minimum 5+ years of hands-on coding skills in Java, JSP, Spring Framework, Spring boot API REST Micro services on open API spec is mandatory. Strong knowledge of Integration
Minimum 3+ years of hands-on designing, developing and deploying solutions on Azure cloud environment on AKS, Azure Synapse, ADLS, Azure ADF, Azure Cosmos Database/Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure event hub and APIM.
2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and concepts using YAML. (e.g., Azure Pipelines).
MQ/Kafka Knowledge
Experience with Helm, Terraform, Azure Kubernetes, OpenShift or similar Cloud experience.
AI knowledge to automate the coding and testing
Experience with Helm, Terraform, Azure Kubernetes, OpenShift or similar Cloud experience.
3 years of Micro services design/development using docker, kubernetes and cloud
Preferred Experience:
5 years’ experience with a fortune 500 company or major consulting firm
5 years’ experience Service Oriented Architecture
5 years’ experience Multi-system architecture
5 years’ experience with off-shore development
3 years Insurance or other financial services industry is a plus but not required
Experience with KAFKA and other open source messaging toolsets
Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
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