Job Description:

Job Classification:

Technology - Software Development/Quality Engineering

Director, Tech Lead

Prudential’s Global Technology Group is on a journey to build a customer-centric platform utilizing contemporary technologies and innovative techniques to deliver improved client experience for internal clients, Institutional and individual experiences, that create and protect financial wellness. We are committed to making the investment to enable large-scale business and technology projects to adopt cloud-based products and solutions to increase operational efficiency and enable revenue growth. The multi-program also focuses on leveraging cross-business capabilities, data, and analytics, within Prudential and partnering with Enterprise groups to enable common technology capabilities for global use across national boundaries.

The individual will design, create, test, and deploy solutions across multiple technology domains and will have the opportunity to influence, differentiate, and guide our business and technology solutions by implementing the robust technical capabilities that will enable Prudential Retirement Strategies to deploy plug and play solutions in a rapidly changing ecosystem.  If you enjoy the challenge of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and have a passion for software engineering, this is the place for you.   

As we continue to transform and improve experiences of our existing individual customers, institutional clients, and business partners, we aspire to attract and retain top talent to create a diverse, engaged and fulfilled workforce, as well as maintain our top-tier, rock solid marketplace reputation. We prioritize continuous improvement and adopt practices that will enable agility and customer-centricity. The Technical Lead will be expected to showcase a continuously learning mindset, adopt contemporary techniques, and utilize their experience to assist with the transformation creating positive outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with global technology partners, architecture, chief product owner, product owners and team members to drive outcomes with focus on enriched customer experience

• Work closely with business partners to understand needs and transform them into testable components

• Foster an Agile environment – SAFE Agile.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and maintain accountability

• Manage data integrations with internal external customers and maintain accountability
• Deliver end to end solution using innovative approaches to complex design problems
• Lead technical teams to deliver high-quality products
• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence within teams.
• Work flexible hours as needed to accommodate onsite and offshore team needs

• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines

• Thrives to ensure code quality is high with supporting unit test and automation, and timely delivery

• Research problems discovered by quality assurance or product support with a strong sense of ownership and develop solutions to address the problems

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and how they can be applied to Prudential

• Drives low-level design and contributes to high-level architecture. Champion modular design, reuse, separation of concern, high cohesion, and loose coupling

• Enable change, help accelerate innovation

• Demonstrating experience with taking intelligent risks and leveraging a ‘test and learn’ mentality

• Committed to a spirit of authentic partnership – to colleagues both internal and external to the organization

• Conduct unit testing and integration testing for functionality

• Ensure that software standards, non-functional requirements, and quality targets are met

Qualifications:

•  Must possess an undergraduate or graduate-level degree with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field 

• 7-10 years of experience in the development and design of complex applications
• Deep proficiency in more than one programming language is required. Knowledge of a combination of Informatica, Python, Cognos and Data Warehousing, AWS services will be required.

• Must have experience with relational databases- such as DB2, SqlServer, Oracle and data analytics. Database Program

• Dev ops, CI/CD knowledge required. Ability to adapt and drive migration of pipelines

• Informaica TDM experience desired, or ability to adapt.

• Must be able to create technical patterns, governance, and drive implementation.

• Must have experience with service implementation using microservice-based Architecture. (Apigee etc)

  Must have experience in data analytics and knowledge of tools such as Tableau and Power BI

• Must have previous experience building and delivering APIs and platforms for consumption at scale
• Familiar with security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways
• Understanding of Agile SDLC methodologies is required
• Driven, self-motivated, able to work under pressure using sound judgment & professionalism.
• Must demonstrate a craving for continuous improvement, through understanding of new technology innovation and its application
• Acts as a change agent and champions employee engagement within SCRUM team by being positive, direct, data-driven, constructive, and vocally self-critical

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Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ and its affiliates.

Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES:
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, which may include an assessment, please call (800) 433-8960, prompt 4 or email accommodations.hw@prudential.com.

Please note that the above number and email are solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation.  If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers.technicalsupport@prudential.com to request assistance.

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