MetLife Japan Tech Stack
Japan's legacy life insurer modernizing core systems and security infrastructure
MetLife Japan operates a large, compliance-heavy insurance business with 5,000–10,000 employees across Japan, running mission-critical systems on AS/400 and mainframe alongside cloud infrastructure (Azure, Azure Machine Learning). Current hiring (27 roles in 30 days) clusters heavily in engineering, finance, and security — reflecting active work on security infrastructure deployment, vendor strategy, and counterparty risk systems rather than consumer product innovation. The adopting stack (CyberArk, SailPoint) signals a shift toward identity and access management maturity, while pain-point data shows compliance, incident response, and capital optimization dominate near-term priorities.
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What MetLife Japan Is Building
◆Challenges
- Audit and compliance response
- Compliance with regulatory requirements
- Continuous improvement of security processes
- Incident management at service desk
- Optimize capital efficiency
- Vendor risk mitigation
- Improving incident response
- Ensuring stable operation of voice services
- Ensuring market competitiveness
- Automating routine risk reports
▲Active Projects
- Year-end compensation planning process
- Security infrastructure implementation
- Project portfolio management
- Vendor strategy planning & execution
- Cyber incident exercise
- Counterparty risk management for derivatives and reinsurance
- Technology evaluations and poc
- Developing agent commission systems
- Enhancing corporate systems
- New asset class investment scheme investigation
