Director, Tech Lead

Job Classification:

Technology - Software Development/Quality Engineering

Prudential’s Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to 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 the Global Technology organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock a challenging and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

The Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) technology team supports many of the critical Business Units across the Enterprise. The Director, Tech Lead for the GRC Technology Team owns the technical and architectural decisions for this group while also providing mentorship and leadership across the team.

We are looking for a highly motivated Tech Lead who is willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done! This role will have the opportunity to build the technical foundation for GRC across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Guide teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, and automated deployment. Work across larger team/function/organization to build positive relationships.
• Responsible for technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments, ensuring that these are kept in-line with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) mindset.
• Mentor and coach the technical team on project deliverables/timelines as well as career/people development. Coach and educate team on industry trends and new technologies, elevating the business acuity of the team.
• Help the team to develop a solution and address all surfacing problems at hand. Constantly look for innovative ways of solving technical problems and crafting the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo.
• Identify and remove technical impediments making connections across work/teams and applying broad network to tackle sophisticated technical impediments. Work towards identify and removing non-technical impediments such as organizational or business issues.
• Work with the leadership to craft the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack. Bring forward business acuity and knowledge to influence decisions. Share and contribute across larger organization.
• Works with vendor and enterprise technology on application compliance, application upgrades, patches, and security.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science/Information Technology or experience in related fields

• Experience as a technical leader working with agile development methodologies

• Clear, professional interpersonal skills including excellent listening skills.

• Positive relationship building and teamwork skills to work with technology groups across the enterprise

• 7+ years of overall IT experience

• Extensive knowledge of API’s, XML, Spring Boot, REST, JavaScript

• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and improve the team’s potential

• Must be a fast learner with a desire and ability to learn new skills

• GRC experience is a plus

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.

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