Director, Tech Lead-AEM

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.  

Prudential Digital Marketing Technology Group is seeking a Director-Tech Lead- AEM who has the right mix of technical with passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment. The candidate will be responsible to work with Business, DevOps and Architecture teams to successfully deliver complex cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management, marketing, and fellow technologists to design, develop and deliver frictionless multi-channel experiences

• Provide technical guidance and be a technical mentor to SCRUM team. Lead the pre-sprint technical design and grooming activities

• Drive user story analysis, elaboration and design. Thrives to ensure code quality is high with supporting unit test and automation.

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

• Employ industry best practices to deliver world-class solutions. Ensure developed solutions remain compliant with all applicable Prudential standards

• Enable change, help accelerate innovation and ensure customer delight

• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines

• Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develop solutions to the problems

• Ensure that software standards and quality targets are met

Requirement:

• Experience developing mission critical web and server applications in agile environment
• Possess excellent software architecture, design and problem-solving skills
• Experience in end-to-end implementations of AEM 6.5 or later, AEM as a cloud service experience preferred Relevant experience with client-side technologies including JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, HTL, CSS3, SASS, Angular 2.0+, React/Redux, Jasmine, Karma, JSON, REST, TypeScript, ES6, NPM, Bower, Gulp, Grunt, WebPack
• Experience with creating new components, templates, dialogs, widgets and bundles, creating and managing site
• Experience and clear understanding of metadata schemas and taxonomy development, file-naming conventions, database reporting, DAM governance, and rights management
• Experience in DAM migration and consolidation
• Deep knowledge of image, video, and audio encoding formats and industry best practices
• ’Experience with backend technologies including Java, J2EE, Tomcat, REST, OSGI (Apache Felix)
• Experience with Spring Framework and Hibernate
• Experience with Java Content Repository (API) and Sling web framework.
• Extremely proficient in using one of the IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ or Microsoft Visual Studio
• Working experience with Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Launch & Adobe Experience Platform
• Knowledge of Responsive and Material design
• Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Jenkins is highly desirable
• Experience with monitoring and logging techniques and tools such as CloudWatch, Nagios, Splunk and Dynatrace etc
• Experience in building CI/CD pipeline meeting all the quality gates
• AEM Developer
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields  Certification preferred

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can  

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.   

Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $168,600.00 to $228,000.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.

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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