Develop and integrate complex functionality for the Group Disability claims platform, leading technical design, mentoring, and addressing production issues in an Agile environment.
Description and Requirements
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"
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, 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!
#BI-Hybrid
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"
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, 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!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Angularjs
Appdynamics
Artifactory
AWS
Bamboo
Bitbucket
Changeman
Cics
Cobol
Db2
Fault Analyzer
File Manager
Ftp
Git
Gradle/Groovy
HTML
Informatica
J2Ee
Java
Jcl
Jenkins
Mq
Mulesoft
Nexus
Node.js
Redis
Shell Scripts
Splunk
Spring
SQL
Subversion
Tso
Ucd
Vsam
Websphere Message Broker
XML
Xpediter
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