Principal Architect, Investments Enterprise Architecture

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
The Principal Architect role at MetLife Investments offers a unique opportunity to drive technological innovation within a leading global organization. This position allows you to leverage your expertise in institutional asset management and cutting-edge technology to create impactful solutions that support all aspects of our Investment Management business. You will work independently and collaboratively with Agile development teams, ensuring that our investment strategies are seamlessly integrated with technology to deliver superior business outcomes. If you are a visionary technologist with a passion for transforming business concepts into modern engineered solutions and possess strong communication skills at all organizational levels, this role is designed for you.
Key Responsibilities:

• Each architect manages the entire investment portfolio across seven lines of business (LOBs) by asset class, catering to two distinct client profiles: preserving regulatory reserves for our global insurance business (MII) and generating alpha for large institutional clients serviced by MIM. Architects operate independently but ensure collaboration across the overall strategy.
• The hands-on Principal Architect must be able to synthesize business concepts into technological solutions and communicate them effectively at all organizational levels. Solutions need to be thorough, encompassing all technology stack levels, and aimed at achieving desired business outcomes.
• A key technical leader with expertise in buy-side institutional asset management, across various asset classes such as global public securities, alternative assets, and derivatives, is essential.
• This role involves developing conceptual and solution designs for applications, platforms, data, and processes to effectively use technology within MetLife Investments.
• The ability to translate business concepts into technological solutions and communicate them clearly at all organizational levels is crucial to realizing our New Frontier strategy

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:

• Demonstrable active listening skills are critical to aligning business and technical strategies. There is a strong emphasis on integration, enterprise data, and modern secure event-driven architectures as core competencies.
• Significant proven experience in supporting the Buy or Sell Side Front, Middle, and Back-office investment lifecycle.
• Significant proven experience in designing event-driven public cloud solutions for buy-side firms
• Proven Ability to extrapolate business requirements into modern technology solutions and communicate them through detailed architecture documentation and collaborative small working groups of technologists.
• 3+ years' experience in designing cloud-based solutions that service Publics, Alternatives, and Derivative solutions.

Preferred:

• Designed and Deployed solutions using Azure
• Experience in communicating architecture using standards such as TOGAF.
• Applied understanding of typical software design patterns
• Delivered Solutions based on data-centric foundations such as Databricks, Data Lakes, Fabrics, ODS'
• Familiarity with Investment technologies such as Trade capture and Order management, Investments Accounting, Loan Origination, Security, and Price Mastering systems to name a few.

At MetLife, we're leading the global transformation of an industry we've long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we're dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers.
The salary range for applicants for this position is $150,000 to $190,000.
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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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
$150,000 to $190,000
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