Solutions Architect

MetLife Cyprus; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Solutions Architect in Cary, North Carolina, to drive enterprise architecture initiatives. This role involves creating architectural roadmaps, mentoring, and delivering solutions across technology domains like cloud and AI. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in enterprise solutions and a relevant engineering degree.

Benefits

Comprehensive health plan

Retirement pension with employer matching

Tuition assistance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in designing and architecting enterprise solutions.
• Experience with IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS technologies.
• Experience in the cloud and across multiple technology domains.

Responsibilities

• Create 3-year roadmaps aligning strategic needs with enterprise architecture.
• Deliver secure, scalable architectures in an agile framework.
• Mentor junior architects in applying modern tech techniques.

Skills

Cloud technologies

AI-based solutions

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline

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Role Value Proposition:

Enterprise Architecture ensures a holistic strategy and approach to technology solutions by working broadly and globally across the company. We drive MetLife toward a simplified and consistent architecture, globally, thereby driving quality, agility, and cost-effectiveness. We support all areas of MetLife in developing and implementing the MetLife and GTO strategy -- Business Units, Global Operations, Application Development, Info Sec, Data and Analytics, and Infrastructure.

Location(s)

• Posting Location: Cary, North Carolina
  
  

City/Cities

Cary

Country

United States

Working Schedule

Full-Time

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Travel Required

10%

Relocation Assistance Available

No

Posted Date

17-Jun-2025

Job ID

9596

Description And Requirements

Role Value Proposition:

Enterprise Architecture ensures a holistic strategy and approach to technology solutions by working broadly and globally across the company. We drive MetLife toward a simplified and consistent architecture, globally, thereby driving quality, agility, and cost-effectiveness. We support all areas of MetLife in developing and implementing the MetLife and GTO strategy -- Business Units, Global Operations, Application Development, Info Sec, Data and Analytics, and Infrastructure.

MetLife is seeking a Lead Architect to support enterprise and solution architecture across the US portfolio. You will be responsible for delivering architectural roadmaps and solution architectures aligned to one or more US business portfolios. In this role, you will lead the architecture of enterprise solutions spanning multiple domains, including digital channels, security, integrations, data, AI, cloud, and infrastructure across a diverse set of technologies. Working in Enterprise architecture allows you to influence alignment to enterprise strategies and standards by building relationships across business, technology, and enterprise partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Create 3-year roadmaps aligning Line of Business strategic and tactical needs with modern enterprise architectures.
• Delivers fit-for-purpose, secure, scalable architectures in an agile framework that evolves with the line of business via collaboration with AD teams, business, and engineering across all levels of the organization.
• Domain expert and technical authority within a US Insurance organization with demonstrable hands-on skills.
• Enable AI-based solutions aligned with enterprise standards
• Utilize Cloud technologies, preferably Azure, to enable PaaS-centric enterprise solutions.
• Keeps abreast of current and future technology trends, especially those fit for purpose for the LOB.
• Provide leadership in developing standards, architectural patterns, ensuring architectural governance, and best practices.
• As a technical leader, by example, you will mentor junior architects’ capabilities to apply modern technology and techniques for enterprise solutions.
• Evangelize and raise the technical bar of the whole US Technology Architecture organization through training, publishing, and mentoring.
  
  

Required

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline (CS, EE, ME, Math, or equivalent)
• 7 years of experience in designing, engineering, delivering, and architecting enterprise business solutions
• Experience architecting enterprise solutions in the cloud, including IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS technologies
• Experience designing and engineering across multiple technology domains, including application, data, security, cloud/infrastructure,
• Recent applied experience delivering solutions through Agile methodology, preferably SAFE
  
  

Preferred

• 10+ years’ experience designing, engineering, delivering, and architecting enterprise business solutions
• Proven experience working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
• Industry experience in Finance/ Insurance with a strong understanding of sector-specific challenges.
  
  

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 $115,000 to $140,000.

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 2025 "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”).

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [e-mail]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.

MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.

$115,000 to $140,000

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance

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