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- $120,000 - $180,000 a year
- Email
- Hybrid work
- Office
- SQL
- Travel
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
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- Azure
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- High school diploma or GED
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- Up to 50% travel
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Lead Data Engineer

MetLife -
Cary, NC

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Job Details

Full-time
$120,000 - $180,000 a year

Benefits

Paid holidays
Disability insurance
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Vision insurance
401(k) matching
Volunteer time off
Life insurance

Qualifications

Data integrity assurance
Data model design
Commercial use (data warehousing systems)
Performance tuning
Cloud analytics services
Databricks
Report writing
Data Integration (Data management)
Requirements specification
Requirements design
Data modeling projects
Data validation techniques
System performance optimization
Technical report writing
SQL
Technical solutions implementation
Data Architecture Design (Architecture design skills)
Outlier detection
Cloud database architecture
Data integrity process (data warehousing)
Requirements analysis
Real-time data processing implementation
System tuning
Data performance optimization
Batch data processing
Implementing IT solutions
Design (software development lifecycle)
Data analytics technologies

Full Job Description

General Information

Location

Cary, North Carolina

Alternative Location(s)

Posting Location: Bridgewater, New Jersey

Posting Location: New York, New York

Working Schedule

Full-Time

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Travel Required

10%

Relocation Assistance Available

Posted Date

09-Jun-2026

Job ID

16086

Description and Requirements

Role Value Proposition:

The position sits within the newly consolidated Data and Analytics (D&A) organization supporting the U.S. Business of MetLife. U.S. D&A assists all business lines of MetLife’s U.S. business (about 2/3 of MetLife Global by earnings) with everything related to data, analytics, and data science, from data infrastructure, data governance, data engineering, data modeling, data analysis to business intelligence, data science, and AI.

The Lead Data Engineer is crucial to D&A USB’s Eligibility team for creating and optimizing data architecture, solutions, and operations, and for ensuring alignment with data management and governance framework. The Lead Data Engineer serves as a big data development expert within the D&A Eligibility organization.

This position is responsible for leading, architecting, and building ETL, data warehousing, and reusable components using cutting-edge big data and cloud technologies. The resource will collaborate with the architect, business systems analyst, technical leads, project managers, and business/operations teams in building data enablement solutions across different LOBs and use cases.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and solution end-to-end data architecture for data hubs/data products, all the way from source systems to consumption.
Oversee the design and management of data solutions to ensure data is stored, processed, curated, and utilized effectively.
Own and build a reusable data pipeline utilizing Big Data and Azure/Databricks for Eligibility Program data products.
Ingesting huge volumes of data from various platforms for Analytics needs and writing high-performance, reliable, and maintainable ETL code.
Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, ensuring the efficient flow of data within the organization with the defined processes and tools.
Collect, store, process, and analyze large datasets to build and implement extract, transfer, load (ETL) processes.
Develop reusable frameworks to reduce the development effort involved, thereby ensuring cost savings for the projects.
Utilizing CI/CD Pipelines: Utilize and enhance CI/CD practices to automate the delivery of data solutions, ensuring reliability and scalability based on the defined tools.
Utilize Cloud technologies (Azure Databricks) to enable data product solutions.
Develop quality code through performance optimizations in place right at the development stage.
Appetite to learn new technologies and be ready to work on new cutting-edge cloud technologies.
Partner with Tech, Business, BI, and Data Science teams to create reusable data products.
Work with a team spread across the globe in driving the delivery of projects and recommend development and performance improvements.
Track and report on KPIs for solution delivery and data quality.
Communicate and present use cases, solutions, and impact to business stakeholders and mid/senior management.
Optimize reusable frameworks, Spark jobs for performance and cost efficiency in large-scale environments.
Ability to interact with business stakeholders in getting the requirements and implementing solutions.
Analyze the data in depth, using SQLs and other exploratory tools against various platforms such as Bigdata, Oracle, SQL Server, Databricks and others.
Work with IT, business, and architects to develop and design requirements to formulate technical design.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required Skills:

8+ years of Data Solutions, development, and delivery experience with 4+ years of recent experience in Azure/Databricks environments.
Proficiency and extensive experience with SQL, Spark &/or Scala/Python and performance tuning.
Hands-on expertise in: Big Data (ex: Hive and HBase), Azure Databricks, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB and/or Data Factory experience is a MUST.
Strong experience in building/designing Data warehouses, data stores for analytics consumption on Cloud (real time as well as batch use cases).
Design, build, and deploy robust data ingestion and curation pipelines utilizing cloud-based data platforms such as Azure Data Factory, Apache Spark (Scala or Python), Azure Databricks, and Delta Lake.
Good scripting experience, primarily on shell/bash/ PowerShell.
Strong SQL knowledge and data analysis skills for data anomaly detection and data quality assurance.
Experience and familiarity implementing data governance and data quality using the enterprise toolset.
Skilled in drafting functional, technical requirements, creating high-level design documents, and data-flow diagrams, etc.
Expertise in writing validation scripts to validate the data, data integrations and ETL transformations.
Very good problem solver and excellent communication skills - both written and verbal.

Preferred Skills:

Expertise in Python and experience writing Azure functions using Python/Node.js.
Databricks certifications and/ or Microsoft Azure Certifications
Experience using Event Hub for data integrations.
Eagerness to learn new technologies on the fly and ship to production.
Hive database management and Performance tuning - Partitioning / Bucketing.
Ability to interact with senior leadership teams in IT and business.

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

The expected salary range for this position is $120,000 - $180,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

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, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the 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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - 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 [email protected]. 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.

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