Senior Solution Architect

The Team You Will Join

Is an energetic team, that will create architecture for all the solutions that Metlife Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. is willing to put on the shelf. The team is also keen on the quality of the apps that are on production and are to be on production.

The Opportunity

The Senior Solution Architect is responsible for the 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.
• 7+ years of experience as a developer/system analyst/solution architect.
• Programming experience in C#, .NET Framework, SQL, MVC Pattern 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

What Can Give You an Edge (Additional Skills)

• Experience with the integration between systems, API design and management with ESB and Microservices is big plus
• Experience in tools such as Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Git, Gitlab, CI/CD, Jenkins
• Experience working in Financial Services / Insurance sector is an advantage
• Experience of working in an Agile environment and using Agile methodologies.

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!