Role Value Proposition: 

At MetLife, we are looking for a candidate to provide leadership in an exciting development environment promoting teamwork and innovation. We currently design, develop, implement and support applications leveraging data assets and follow the full systems development lifecycle (SDLC).  We complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; driving team meetings; troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. We work collaboratively with cross functional teams to deliver best in class customer interactions.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Leverage extensive technical and/or business knowledge of multiple areas (technical, business, applications, etc.) in support of production management activities providing guidance to the team
• Performs break-fix coding and/or scripting and maintains records to document break-fix code changes.
• Converts specifications about business problems into programming instructions.
• Designs and codes programs; creates test transactions and runs tests; revises as necessary.
• Conducts analysis of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems.
• Monitors operating efficiency of existing application systems.
• Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging and installing for large-scale systems.
• Maintains records to document program development and revisions.
• Conducts analysis of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems.
• Acts as technical lead to technical vendor resources

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required:

• Degree (Level 8) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field
• 5 + years of related work experience of which some time was in a multinational environment
• 5 + years of programming experience in C#, both in internet and desktop environments. Proficiency in CSS, HTML5 along with good knowledge of JavaScript and JavaScript based libraries.
• 5 + years minimum of solid database design skills in relational databases such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or DB2 and solid experience with SQL and creation of DB objects including stored procedures, views, triggers etc.  
• 5 + years of related work experience with demonstrative IT Service Management, Data Management and Application Development exposure and experience
• Strong analytical, communication skills combined with very good attention to detail
• Experience of working in an Agile environment and using Agile methodologies

Preferred:

• Experience working in Financial Services / Insurance sector is an added advantage
• Experience in developing and consuming both windows and RESTful services.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with Engineering scrum teams is an added advantage.
• Experience in tools such as Visual Studio, TFS, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins