AVP and Chief Architect of Corporate Systems

Description and Requirements
AVP and Chief Architect for Corporate Systems
Location: Preference is Cary, NC, then NYC or Tampa
The Enterprise Architect AVP reports directly to the VP Chief Architect and has a dual reporting line relationship to the CIO of Corporate systems. The AVP is a technical self-starter, inquisitive and has excellent communication skills. The position requires hands-on technical and global enterprise governance leadership and is directing a team of 4-7.
You will partner and enable Agile and Enterprise Class development teams for Actuarial Modeling and Risk, Corporate Financial Systems and Reporting, Legal and Corporate Management Systems, Human Resources, The Corporate Intranet Experience and Shared data in support of the enterprise. The candidate will develop, guide, and govern conceptual and solution architectures providing technology leadership for global applications, platforms and processes that can reside in country specific locales. You and your team will liaise with all Corporate Systems AppDev Teams and Lines of Business (LOB) and as members of the Global Enterprise Architecture Group contributing to evolving the effectiveness of EA and evangelizing our principles in our transformation towards technology and process simplification and secure cloud enablement. The successful candidate will have a strong capability to connect business concepts, devise technological solutions and communicate them to a broad set of constituents within a LOB and at all levels of the organization.
The Architect will be responsible for assisting in the adoption and implementation of a broad swath of third party SAAS, PAAS and custom systems such as People Soft, Success Factors, Admin and Policy solutions for Insurance.
Key Responsibilities:

• Create 3-year roadmaps aligning Line of Business strategic and tactical needs with modern enterprise architectures.
• Delivers fit for purpose, secure, scalable, architectures in an agile framework that evolves with the line of business via collaboration with AD teams, business, and engineering across all levels of the organization.
• Senior domain expert and technical authority for corporate systems with demonstrable hands-on skills.
• Utilize Cloud technologies preferably Azure to enable PaaS centric enterprise solutions.
• Keeps abreast of current and future technology trends especially those fit for purpose for the LOB.
• Provide leadership in developing standards, ensure architectural governance, and best practices.
• Mentor and grow your team's capability to apply modern technology and technique for solutions.
• Evangelize and raise the bar technically of the whole CS org through training, publishing, and mentoring .

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (CS, EE, ME, Math or equivalent)
• Superior written and verbal skills
• 15+ years' experience Designing, Developing, Delivering, and Architecting Enterprise business solutions.
• Experience with several SaaS and PaaS technologies and solutions such as Peoplesoft Cloud, Service Now, Azure PaaS, Grid Computational Engines utilizing HPC, AON, Prophet, Numerix etc.
• Experience implementing a Cloud data stack utilizing one or more of the following technologies: Data Bricks, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, Azure Synapse, HDFS, HBASE, Hive, KAFKA, FLUME, SPARK etc.
• 2 + years recent applied experience delivering solutions in an Agile Framework. Preferably SAFE.
• 5 + years recent experience incorporating the use of domain driven design for enterprise solutions.
• 10 + years of experience of architecting enterprise distributed systems ensuring Security, Resilience, 999 up-time, and utilizing event driven paradigms.
• 2+ years demonstrable experience in microservice design and using big data or NOSQL in the data layer.
• Demonstrable experience applying several developer tools for solutions utilizing C#, .NET Core, Java, Python, REST, WebAPI, Spring, JSON, XML, NOSQL, and others
• Prefer Candidate to have intrinsic curiosity to explore innovative solutions and prototype MVPs
• Prefer: Workday experience
• Prefer: Applied experience in Data Centric architectures.
• Prefer experience working in Capital Markets, Insurance.

The salary range for applicants for this position is 170,000 to 215,000.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2025 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, 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!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
170,000 to 215,000
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