Sr. Software Platform Engineer I

Job Description and Requirements

Position Summary

The MetLife Corporate Technology (CT) organization is evolving to enable MetLife’s New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a global function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key corporate functions within MetLife including, Finance, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Legal, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Risk, Treasury, Audit and Compliance. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.

We are seeking a highly skilled hands-on Sr Techno-functional HCM Oracle Specialist who is responsible for partnering with HR Leaders, third party vendors and IT Executives to lead global transformation projects with the goal of attracting, developing and retaining talent across the organization. This position will be a part of a fast-paced IT team leveraging the newly implemented Oracle HCM to support employee hire to retire lifecycle (supporting all processes for HR, Hire, Learning, Pay, Benefits, etc. from an IT perspective) and interfaces of over 200 internal and external policy administrations

He/she should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.

Key Relationships

Internal Stake Holder –

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management - Managing key business stakeholders to deliver required technology capabilities to support the digital transformation agenda. Driving prioritization of the product backlog. This includes managing key vendors providing the resources, SaaS & other capabilities.
• Technology Implementation – Implement and support projects on Internal Audit Technology platforms, specifically Azure Cloud.
• Ways of Working – Adoption of the Agile ways of working in the software delivery lifecycle.
• E2E Software Lifecycle Management (Architecture, Design, Development, Testing & Production)
• Evaluate/Implement technical solutions supporting Internal Audit and SAAS based solutions, talent development, performance management, and workforce analytic
• Work with Functional Experts to translate user requirements into Technical Specifications
• Partner with internal business process owners, technical team members, and senior management throughout the project life cycle
• Act as the intermediary to facilitate a clear understanding among all parties about business assumptions and requirements, design, technical, testing, and production migration requirements
• Drive the resolution and troubleshooting of issues during development and post- production support.
• Responsible to Support Day-to-day business enhancements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Education

• A Bachelors/master's degree in computer science or equivalent Engineering degree.

Candidate Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field

Experience:

• 10-15 years of software development experience

• Deep expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM)

• Prior lead role or project management experience

• Software development experience in one or more of the following languages: Oracle HCM, HCM extracts, Fast Formulas, HSDL, API’s, Synapse ETL, Redwood, Journeys, SQL, BI Reporting

• Ability to manage systems testing including unit, QA, end to end and user acceptance testing

• Familiar with technology landscape supporting web and mobile delivery and integration solutions such as Informatica.

• Experience managing vendors to SLA’s.

• Experience with software development life cycle and related activities to the implementation and maintenance of HR systems

• Proven experience collaborating with peers to establish best practices to achieve high service levels.

• Experience with MS Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and related project delivery utilities.

Skills and Competencies:

Language:

• Proficiency at business level in English.

Competencies

• Communication: Ability to influence and help communicate the organization’s direction and ensure results are achieved

• Collaboration: Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environment

• Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment

Tech Stack