Data Solution Architect

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
MetLife Data & Analytics organization is the team of expert technologists responsible for building big data platforms and data services with innovative technologies to enable MetLife businesses to generate insights, and value to its customers. The team is the center of excellence in data engineering in MetLife and plays a key role in data enablement through multiple data stores, supporting different kind of analytical use cases to be able to derive predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive insights.
To lead the design, architecture, delivery, and execution of end-to-end data solutions for key insurance business functions such as claims service &operations, customer acquisition, customer engagement & retention, distribution, investments, marketing, risk management and underwriting. The role will collaborate with partners from Business, operations, technology, and risk management functions to design robust architectures that optimize data storage, processing and analysis ensuring scalability, security in alignment with the organizational goals.
Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze business data requirements and develop comprehensive architecture plans along with enterprise architects.
• Design and lead the development and delivery of efficient, scalable, and trustworthy data layers & data solutions.
• Work with BSA's to understand data lineage, understand current state technology and data infrastructure (on-prem, cloud) assess future state information needs and recommend solutions.
• Collaborate with business and technology partners to co-create enterprise architecture solutions.
• Contribute to developing Data solution roadmaps.
• Deliver products and solutions in a timely, proactive, and entrepreneurial manner.
• Institutionalize best practices, contribute to research and experimentation efforts.
• Accelerate solution delivery using re-usable frameworks, prototypes, and hackathons.
• Stay updated on the industry trends to incorporate the latest technologies into their solutions.
• Empathy led engagement with focus on stakeholder motivation, needs and aspirations.
• Present solution architecture to Business, BSA's, and delivery teams

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

• Azure BigData ecosystem, Synapse/Databricks Spark, Data Factory, Functions, Event Hub, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB, Delta LakeSolution architecture, data architecture, data analysis. Solutioning skills to build & implement trustworthy and efficient data layers for a variety of consumption needs such as data API, reporting, and advanced analytics.
• Data classification, data lineage, data profiling and data quality, data transformation and data validation.
• Datawarehouse, data fabric, data lakes, data marts, data mesh concepts.
• Experience working with large and complex internal, external, structured datasets.
• Responsible development of Data solutions. Detailed technical documentation for solutions.
• Agile methodologies & tools.
• Industry knowledge about emerging Cloud, Data trends, tools and technologies

Required:

• 4+ years of solution development and delivery experience with 2+ years of recent experience in data architecture / Analysis.
• Proficiency and extensive Experience with modelling, Scrum and agile principles.
• High level understanding of business experience, architecture knowledge
• Hands on SQL knowledge and data analysis skills for data anomaly detection and data quality assurance.
• Very good problem solver and excellent communication skills - both written and verbal
• Scrum Master CSM and SAFe certified.

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 2024 "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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