Lead, Tech Lead

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Your Team

As a Tech Lead, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to help us launch new financial products with a modern architectural approach. You will partner with other technology leaders to brainstorm best design and integration approach for your deliverables and build consensus to implement your proposals. You will also be responsible for managing and guiding other software engineers on your team. You will look at broad deliverables, break them down into actionable building blocks and leveraging resources at hand to complete deliverables within a timeline. You will feel challenged with ensuring your design meets the firmwide systems and modernization strategy. For this, you will need to maintain a broader awareness of firmwide technology strategy, as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to deep technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Develop, maintain and drive modernization of the services and capabilities within your overall scope.

Responsible for technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments for your team’s deliverables.

Collaborate with product owners in aligning the roadmap accounting for strengths and opportunities within the technical stack, bringing forward business delivery and knowledge to influence decisions

Monitor performance, uptime and health of your services

Go above and beyond by helping setup best practices and lead the way in helping teams in adopting best operational and development practices

Mentor and coach the technical team on results and timelines, including support with code reviews, domain knowledge and ownership and bring a deep understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day  

Identify and remove complex technical impediments that may arise within the team



The Skills & Expertise You Bring

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization  

Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)

3-7 years of hands-on knowledge and experience with developing applications in Java, Springboot, Python, node.js, react or angular

5+ years experience with leading small to mid-sized teams

Experience with designing and developing financial services applications

Experience with developing java or python applications in AWS development stack

Experience with using ECS, containers, Github, Kong / APIGEE and understanding of authentication and authorization enforcement in java services

Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

Strong executive presence with an ability to translate and communicate sophisticated technical solutions in understandable terms to a broad range of audiences

Excellent problem solving and collaboration skills

Required Qualifications

  •  15+ years of professional Java development experience.

  •  Strong proficiency in old and modern Java frameworks as well as old web servers (like Websphere) and new (AWS ECS or Kubernetes)

  •  Demonstrated hands-on experience in Java modernization/migration projects.

  •  Expertise in converting legacy Java codebases to updated architectures.

  •  Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

  •  Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)

  •  Automated testing

  •  Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of s