Senior Mainframe Developer

About the Role

When you join MetLife’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain, and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments. In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways.

The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for modernizing, reimagining, supporting, and retiring mainframe applications across the MetLife Holdings Classic Agile Release Train. The ideal candidate will possess deep mainframe development and engineering capabilities with technologies including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, or similar programming languages. This role plays a key part in maintaining the stability of applications while advancing MetLife's modernization strategy through the transformation of legacy mainframe platforms, adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, and retirement of aging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the application modernization and decommissioning initiatives, including application rationalization, dependency analysis, migration activities, and retirement of legacy platforms while ensuring compliance with business, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Create and maintain mainframe applications’ batch processes to support business functions, improve operational efficiency, and enable the reliable delivery of business capabilities.
• Oversee application quality, code reviews, automated testing, production support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage technical enhancements, ChangeMan to GitHub modernization efforts, platform currency and security activities, and technical debt reduction across assigned applications.
• Develop and maintain applications using mainframe programming languages and GitHub Copilot with human-in-the-loop processes.
• Coordinate with product owners, architects, business analysts, operations teams, and external partners to ensure successful delivery of requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong mainframe application development experience including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, or similar programming languages.
• Ability to work effectively across technical and business teams while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Robust analytical and problem-solving skills with experience diagnosing complex production issues and remediating currency and security vulnerabilities.
• Experience participating in application modernization, legacy transformation, and application decommissioning initiatives.
• Effective program management, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting mainframe applications.
• Experience with AI-assisted software engineering tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, or similar technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Agile development methodologies, and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior mainframe engineers, influence technical direction, and drive engineering best practices across teams.
• 3+ years of experience supporting Retail Life and Annuity products.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

Pay

The expected salary range for this position is $105,000 - $140,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Benefits

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.
• 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.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs.
• Parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, and volunteer time off.
• Tuition assistance and much more.