Requirements
Description and Requirements
Department: Global Technology

Role Overview

MetLife is seeking a Mainframe Application Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining insurance business systems built on mainframe platforms.

This position plays a critical role in ensuring stable operations of existing systems while driving new product development and modernization of development environments and processes.

You will be engaged in design, development, and operations based on business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, andmaintainmainframe applications
• Analyze and design to translate business requirements into system specifications
• Improve performance of batch and online processing, handle incidents, and perform root cause analysis
• Manage application changes, create release plans, and prepare operational manuals
• Execute project planning, WBS creation, and reviews under the waterfall development process; in the future,participatein sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives under Agile development
• Conduct technical evaluations and implementations for modernization initiatives (e.g., development support tools, test automation, CI/CD)
• Ensure design and operationscomply withsecurity and regulatory requirements

Candidate Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Experience:

• 3+ years of development and maintenance experience in mainframe environments (COBOL, JCL, DB2, etc.)
• Experience in system development within the insurance or financial industry preferred

Skills:

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and collaboration skills
• Expertisein mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2)
• Design and tuning of batch and online processing
• Assembler skills preferred
• Understanding and practical experience in Agile development preferred

Tech Stack:

• z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS
• Development management tools: Mainframe, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps

Language:

• Business-level Japaneserequired
• Englishproficiencypreferred

Why Join Us?

You will have the opportunity to support stable mainframe operations while taking on modernization challenges such as test automation and CI/CD implementation. This is a key role in driving MetLife's technology transformation.

Benefits We Offer
MetLife Japan offers a comprehensive benefits package that promotes work-life balance and employee wellbeing. Employees can take advantage of flex time policy and a generous time-off policy, national holidays, annual paid leave, special consecutive leave, and refreshment leave. We also provide full social insurance coverage, a commuting expense reimbursement, group insurance, and discounts on travel and English language lessons. To support work flexibility, employees also have hybrid work options, shortened working hours for parents with children in third grade or below, and a casual dress code.

About MetLife
MetLife Inc., through its subsidiaries and affiliates (MetLife), is one of the world's leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

MetLife Japan began operations in February 1973 as Japan's first foreign-owned life insurance company. Our purpose, "Always with you, building a more confident future," encapsulates our strong commitment to leveraging our global network and best practices worldwide to stand with our customers and build trust with our communities.