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MetLife announces World Class Global Technology Hub


MetLife Inc., a leader in offering Insurance, Retirement and Savings plans has published that it is organizing a new advanced best-in-class hi-tech hub in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area.


The new hub will be stationed in Cary, N.C, and is said to trait a framework that will empower MetLife to distribute a premier service to its customers around the world. This world class company has expended a hollering $125.5 million on this new hi-tech hub and a new U.S. retail headquarters in charlotte. This extent is by now on elite of endowed $1.2 billion in diversified fields in North Carolina, which majorly encompasses housing, agriculture, health care and utilities.

The local allies and confederates will join the onward with various affiliates of political, academic and business communities will join MetLife today at a fantastic commemoration to celebrate this decisive occasion. The speakers at the ceremony comprehend discrete dignitaries like Governor Pat McCrory, U.S. Senator Richard Burr, MetLife Chairman, President and CEO Steven A. Kandarian, MetLife EVP and Head of Global Technology & Operations (GTO) Marty Lippert, MetLife Global Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Elizabeth Nieto and Highwoods Properties CEO Ed Fritsch. Other big shots on the enumeration comprehend Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht and Wake County Board of Commissioners Chair Joe Bryan.


MetLife is exuberant to recruiting the finest expertise and is already engaging variegated workforce to legitimize this new setup. MetLife will be contemplating in fields like engineering, development, app maintenance, IT Risk & security and tech support. In the forthcoming 18 months there will be more than 1000 openings which will be offered by MetLife in these fields. So persons who are interested and talented in these fields can brush their skills and be ready to face the challenge.

MetLife postulates that organizing this new technology hub will play a distinguished role in revamping their customer’s experience. They are agitated to have forwanders, aggressive, contemporary and passionate work force.


This new best in class tech hub will be open in the year 2015. MetLife is convening on accomplishing LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification or higher for this state of the art work place, which is said to trait and environment friendly architecture. This is the main feature which not many industries or companies doesn’t concentrate on but our MetLife has given an importance to it. This environment friendly campus will feature a great outside space utilization, which also includes sports facilities like basketball and volley ball courts, an amphitheatre, a patio and a big lawn. The outside arena usage includes two buildings, each of 213,500 square foot area, which are situated on 26.5 acres fronting the 520-acre Lake Crabtree.


This best in class tech hub is been established by Highwoods properties on their own land. Highwoods headquarters is located in Raleigh and they are a prominent real estate investment trust who caters on all augmented competences like leasing, management, and construction for its properties and for third parties as well. The base building architecture team, RTJ+R, has a broadened staff size of LEED-accredited experts, who are zealous to make renewable and environment friendly designed apprehensions. The interior architecture team, STUDIOS Architecture, is an international design firm focused on architecture, interior design and environmental graphic design. The management of this tech hub will be done by Brasfield & Gorrie, who are one of the big giants in the construction firm in the country.