Principal Architect - AI Platform & Solutions

When you join Met Life’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments.

In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

Enterprise Architecture ensures a holistic strategy and approach to technology solutions by working broadly and globally across the company. We drive Met Life toward a simplified and consistent architecture, enabling quality, agility, and cost-effectiveness. We support all areas of Met Life in developing and implementing enterprise strategies across Business Units, Global Operations, Application Development, Information Security, Data & Analytics, and Infrastructure.

Met Life is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the design and evolution of AI-powered development platforms and agentic solutions across the enterprise. This role focuses on establishing architectural vision, platform architectures, and solution architectures for AI and automation systems that empower engineering and platform teams while ensuring alignment with Met Life's architecture standards and guardrails.

The architect will design and evolve enterprise-scale platforms, guardrails, and reusable patterns that enable Platform and Solution Engineering teams to rapidly build and deploy AI, agentic, and automation solutions without creating hidden risk, technical debt, or compliance issues. The role combines strategic vision with hands‑on expertise, ensuring AI capabilities can scale safely and effectively across the organization while driving continuous innovation and adoption.

You will provide thought leadership and drive strategic initiatives across architecture, security, privacy, and platform teams to define how AI and agent-based capabilities are delivered and operationalized enterprise-wide. This role requires both the ability to set architectural direction and the technical depth to engage hands‑on with complex AI and automation challenges.

• Establish and communicate the architectural vision and strategic direction for AI platforms, agentic solutions, and enterprise automation across Met Life
• Design, evolve, and maintain enterprise reference architectures and patterns for AI-enabled development, agent frameworks, modern AI ecosystems, and secure integration patterns
• Lead the definition of governance‑by‑design capabilities, including embedded controls for security, compliance, explainability, transparency, and responsible AI practices
• Conduct deep technical research and hands‑on experimentation with emerging AI technologies, agent frameworks, automation techniques, and agentic patterns to inform enterprise architecture decisions
• Partner strategically with Platform Engineering, Solution Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Architecture teams to validate architectural decisions and drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI capabilities
• Design and establish reusable frameworks, templates, components, and accelerators that enable rapid development of AI and agentic solutions while reducing complexity and technical debt
• Influence and guide significant technical decisions and architectural changes across Platform and Solution Engineering teams
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in strategic forums and working groups focused on AI platform evolution, governance, and responsible AI practices

• Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform architecture, or enterprise architecture, with significant focus on modern AI systems and agentic solutions
• Deep…