Solution Architect

MetLife México; Fatih; On-site; TRY 3,327,000 - 4,160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Senior Solution Architect in Turkey. The role involves ensuring applications align with architectural standards, leading technical teams, and establishing best practices for development. Ideal candidates should have over 4 years of experience in systems architecture, proficiency in C#, .NET, and SQL, along with strong analytical and communication skills. This position offers an array of benefits including health insurance, pension plans, and work-from-home allowances.

Benefits

Private health insurance

Life insurance

Pension plan

Meal allowance

Work from home allowance

Cultural Heritage Day off

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a developer/system analyst/solution architect.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Related work experience with IT Service Management and Application Security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and manage company’s systems.
• Act as technical lead for vendor resources.
• Establish secure coding best practices.

Skills

C#

.NET Framework

SQL

MVC Pattern

SSIS

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MS SQL Server

Oracle

Job description

The Opportunity

The Senior Solution Architect is responsible for assuring the applications that are created are in line with MetLife’s architecture board. By this way the apps that are created or updated in Turkey will have better quality, less technical debts. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your strategic thinking, show and increase your knowledge about software world as a whole.

Success in this role requires both technical and soft skills. You’ll collaborate closely with Product owners, business analysts, developers, enterprise architectures, security experts in an environment where every contribution is respected, and every perspective is heard.

How You’ll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Join and follow up the activities around the design, develop, testing, and release management of the company’s systems
• Act as technical lead to technical vendor resources
• Participate in the determination and detailing of the application architecture. Directs the determined architecture to the
• Technical teams and makes sure that it is implemented correctly.
• Implement software development principles, best practices and methodologies with alignment to regional standards within MetLife Turkey SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Establish secure coding best practices and policies in order to ensure the security of MetLife Turkey systems
• Follow up the fixes of security findings of applications in the field of responsibility
• Develop effective relationships with third-party vendors to enable successful delivery of services and solutions
• Recommend for long-term goals and short-term business needs & application improvements in a fast-paced environment and growing company
• Examine the review and analysis of design, functional, technical and user documentation.
• Identify potential application problems before they occur and implement or communicate solutions proactively
• Assist in the development and implementation of processes that improve efficiency and enhance productivity

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, engineering, math, statistics, science with related business discipline experience.
• 4+ years of experience as a developer/system analyst/solution architect.
• Programming experience in C#, .NET Framework, SQL, MVC Pattern, SSIS both in internet and desktop environments.
• Solid database design skills in relational databases such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, NoSQL database knowledge is plus
• Related work experience with IT Service Management, Application Development, Application Security exposure and experience
• Strong analytical, communication skills combined with very good attention to detail
• Ability to communicate effectively in dealing with cross-functional teams in department and global teams, internal and external customers and technical vendor

Benefits We Offer

Our benefits are designed to care for your holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer private health insurance for you and your family, life insurance, employer pension plan, meal and transportation allowance, as well as a work from home allowance. We also provide a cultural Heritage Day off, and “back to school” and “school report day” leaves and much more!

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!