Senior Platform Engineer — Governance & Automation

MetLife; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Life insurance

401(k) with employer match

Dental and vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

MetLife’s Global Technology team is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate governance solutions for citizen developers. You will implement controls across intake apps, recertification, DLP, Copilot governance tooling, and inventory management, partnering with architects and platform admins.

You’ll automate provisioning, policy application, and reporting, while owning data models and dashboards that show risk, inventory, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, with 5+ years of hands-on development, incl. 2+ years on low-code/SaaS.
• Experience shipping production apps and automations on Microsoft Power Platform or comparable low-code platform.
• Scripting and API automation with PowerShell, Power Platform admin APIs, Microsoft Graph, and REST.
• ALM and engineering discipline: source control, packaging, deployment pipelines, environment promotion, automated testing.
• Translate governance/ compliance requirements into technical controls with clear acceptance criteria.
• Working knowledge of Agile practices: backlog grooming, sprint/PI planning, demos, retrospectives.
• Strong collaboration across development teams, platform administration, security and compliance.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including design documents and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate governance solutions end to end across intake app, recertification, and compliance center.
• Automate operations such as environment provisioning, DLP policy application, access recertification, and license reporting.
• Translate policy into enforceable technical controls and implement in the tenant.
• Own data and reporting layer for governance with Dataverse and SharePoint models, pipelines, dashboards.
• Set patterns for architecture, ALM, deployment, testing, and security reviews.
• Collaborate with Platform Admins to define requirements and sequencing for tenant/environment changes.
• Break features into technical stories with acceptance criteria and participate in agile ceremonies.
• Provide guidance to onshore/offshore developers and vendors through code reviews and reusable components.
• Improve user experience, data quality, and governance workflow based on feedback.
• Support UAT, release communications, and handover to Platform Admins; prepare leadership summaries.
• Plan for additional platforms as citizen developer footprint grows beyond Power Platform.

Skills

Low-code platform development

Agile practices

Scripting & automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Power Platform

Power Apps

Power Automate

Dataverse

Microsoft Graph

REST API

PowerShell

Job description

MetLife’s Global Technology team is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate governance solutions for citizen developers. You will implement controls across intake apps, recertification, DLP, Copilot governance tooling, and inventory management, partnering with architects and platform admins.

You’ll automate provisioning, policy application, and reporting, while owning data models and dashboards that show risk, inventory, and compliance.