Job Description
Position : VP, Global Corporate Functions Technologies
Job Location: 200 Park, NYC
**Department : **
The MetLife Corporate Systems Technology (CST) organization is evolving to enable MetLife’s Next Horizon strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a global function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key corporate functions within MetLife including, Finance, Actuarial, Legal, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Risk, Audit and Compliance. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.
The Role :
This role is responsible for the overall strategic direction and leading the organization in enabling and transforming all the functions which support running the business of MetLife. This includes Audit, Compliance, Legal Affairs and Operational Risk Management. The leader is charged to introduce innovation, driving for game changing, digitally enabled, modernized technologies while ensuring adherence to changing legislation and regulation. They must be a seasoned, inspiring, empathetic, and passionate leader able to bridge advisory, strategy, modernized technology solutioning and delivery. This individual must have the requisite leadership and influencing skills to be regarded as an effective business partner by their respective business peers and across the cross-functional MetLife leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic planning incorporating emerging technology trends, industry standards, regulatory, and legal considerations culminating in technology roadmaps to drive business partner decision making
- Serve as a strong change agent and a visionary leader with the ability to lead and inspire technology professionals to succeed in a fast-changing market, keeping the team focused on breakthrough strategies and tactics to best leverage the resources of the company
- Partner and influence stakeholders at the senior most levels in the organization (EVP and SVP leaders); participate in strategic planning boards and discussions and be the trusted technology partner
- Develop and implement the purpose and strategy based on the business partner objectives across all domains; align goals, execute flawlessly
- Proven ability to apply broad industry knowledge and external perspective toward structuring and executing solutions to complex business problems – bringing forward a range of technology solutions, third party vendors and direct advisory
- Deliver global technology solutions for large, complex programs (for example: large scale, movement of on-premise solutions to the cloud to support global AML requirements in each operation, creating and delivering an integrated risk management strategy and, DevOps platforms etc.)
- Manage investing in the business initiatives as well as running the business through tight focus on operating expense and transparency of costs with the business; manage alternate sourcing arrangements for efficiency and align to global allocation models
- Drive forward the DevOps and Agile methods to simplify processes, increase automation and speed of delivery
- Continually recruit, retain, rotate, develop a diverse team to ensure new technologies and innovation are forefront for the team
- Manage and reduce Risk including Audit, Security, and IT Risk
Key Relationships:
Qualifications :
- 15+ years of IT or relevant technical experience, of which 10 should be at a senior management level.
- Experience as an inspiring leader who has led a global team of technologists through superior communication skills and strong leadership skills required to continually drive the team to deliver technology solutions, with leading edge capabilities, enabling business value and transformation for superior business impact.
- Client service mindset with proven ability to communicate complex concepts to a range of senior business stakeholders. Must have a track record of elevating technology at the most senior levels in an organization and partnering as a trusted peer to the business.
- Proven Track record of executive technology leadership within global businesses with scale, complexity, and geographical spread.
- Demonstrated front-end and backend application expertise, software development or leadership of software development teams preferred, bringing familiarity with many of the latest technologies.
- Demonstrated experience leading the introduction of new technologies and standards into an evolving systems environment (e.g., cloud-based applications and infrastructure, SaaS, user vs. maintained applications, mobility applications, security) including new ways of working via citizen development.
- Hands-on leadership experience and technical depth across the critical functions of a technology organization including creating and managing product development environments development, customer facing technical environments, and business applications.
- Deep knowledge of Corporate Legal, e-Discovery, operational process improvement, Employee Experience and other corporate processes and the standard (and emerging) industry IT solutions including cloud, DevOps, Agile, AI, Data Analytics, Big Data.
- Deep understanding of the data domain and the power of utilizing data solutions to drive velocity and deep analytics.