MetLife Looking for Head of Technology Delivery (Asia Tech) at Greater Hyderabad Area Full Time

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MetLife in Asia has adopted a nimble approach to each market across the region and has successfully established a diversified geographical footprint in Asia that spans across nine markets Australia, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Nepal and Vietnam. We have regional teams in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and India.

Position: Head of Technology Delivery

Job Location: Hyderabad, India

Department: Asia Technology

Role Value Proposition

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Technology Delivery Head with experience in driving technology & talent transformation, managing strategic tech Platforms and managing Technology deliveries from India for our key market in Asia.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Technology teams based in India to deliver software, infrastructure and architecture related deliverables.
• Build up Strategic and Technical relationship with all senior Leadership to drive the Technology vision and goals.
• Responsible for leading and managing deliver across high priority initiatives, collaborate with technology and business leads to ensure services are being delivered per agreed expectations and proactively drive continuous service improvements.
• Thought leadership & transformation recommendations in business application software solution on various MetLife products.
• Recruit, coach and nurture a team that is consistently over performing and delivering on business and technology objectives. Drive change management and culture change by adhering to and evangelizing MetLife values and behaviors.
• Accountable for providing day-to-day leadership and management of the resources based in India (employees and partner resources) to ensure high engagement
• Create a diverse and inclusive team in India.
• Accountable for driving the positioning of MetLife as an employer of choice for technologists.
• Accountable and responsible for effective financial management, planning and monitoring of the teams based in India.
• Manage the critical tech platforms and common platforms leveraged by all the development teams. Responsible for enabling the development teams to leverage these platforms by providing training, co-development, consultation and reference implementations.
• Drive the multi-year technology transformation agenda focusing on changing the way technology work (Developers, Production SRE, QA)

Candidate Qualifications:

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

• Overall experience in building and driving Technology teams
• Managing teams of 100+
• Minimum 15-20 years working experience in leading software applications delivery in a mission critical and highly regulated environments
• Hands-on prior experience in developing software products
• Partnership with multiple stakeholders across different countries to deliver software products
• Engagement of external ecosystems partners to enable the teams as necessary and relevant.
• Great communicator and leader who is able to engage employees, stakeholders proactively
• Passion for driving transformation (culture & technology)
• Application development and delivery in diverse technology platforms including Java and others.
• Cloud / Data / AI domain expertise
• Microsoft Azure stack, GitHub CoPilot, OpenAI or equivalent, Azure DevOps, API

Why MetLife?

At MetLife, we don’t fit into a box, we create our own boxes. Our Global Technology team is helping to transform a customer-first Fortune 50 company – by offering the high-tech digital solutions customers have come to expect, while delivery high-touch customer care during the moments that matter most.

Our tech teams enable the business, helping fuel MetLife’s purpose: always with you, building a more confident future. It’s where you can grow your career, driving digital transformation in an agile, open, and inclusive environment, where every voice carries weight, and no idea is left off the table.

Here, innovation is everybody’s job. It’s not done within one team or in a lab. Whether you’re driving continuous improvement with your DevOps team, integrating data science and AI into our decision making, or developing best-in-class digital and cloud solutions that protect customer data and personalize their experience, what you build matters as part of a team where together, we can do more.