Director, Tech Lead Engineer

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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.

We are looking for a leader who has demonstrated expertise in a variety of information technology concepts, practices, and procedures and can lead teams, small and large, to design, develop, modify and implement customer facing applications. We are looking for a hands-on leader who is outcome focused, creative, loves solving puzzles and can work collaboratively.

This position will be part of the Application Modernization Engineering team. You will collaborate with other Managers, Technical Leads, Developers, Testers, Product Owners and Architects cross Prudential to build the next generation of core applications for Prudential.

Candidate must be able to lead a team through the learning and implementation of new technologies as we adopt them and help lead the evolution of the team as our applications evolve. Excellent written and oral communication skills are an absolute must.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with technology, architecture, product management and design teams to drive outcomes with focus on enriched customer experience

• Fosters an iterative/Agile environment

• Manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously

• Provides technical guidance to team and writes seed code for team when needed

• Delivers end to end solution, using innovative approaches to complex design problems

• Writes code as needed

• Leads technical teams to deliver high quality products

• Can lead Scrum of Scrums for a number of scrum teams

• Lead Engineering and Operational Excellence collection and review across teams

• Lead and coordinate complex code release from pre-prod to Prod while collaborating across a number of teams

• Drives Engineering and Operational Excellence within teams.

• Writes original code to deliver end to end solution using innovative approaches to complex design problems

• Leads troubleshooting and remediation of production problems as needed

• Reverse engineers code if needed

Qualifications:

• Must possess an undergraduate degree with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• At least 10 years of industry experience in ever larger and more responsible roles, including team management

• Must have at least 3 years of experience actively using the Agile SDLC

Technical Qualifications:

• Deep proficiency in more than one programming language is required. Knowledge of Spring boot framework, Microservices, AWS, Java, SQL, will be required

• Must have experience with service implementation using service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns, experience with developing true microservices highly desirable

• Must have previous experience building and delivering APIs and platforms for consumption at scale

• Must understand and have worked with security concepts like authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, MFA, SSL, etc.

• Must have experience with web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways, etc.

• Must know how to build applications for and in the cloud (preferably AWS) and understand the core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.

• Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices. Proficiency writing code for serverless applications such as EC2, Lambda and API Gateway

• Understanding of cloud databases and NoSQL concepts (DynamoDB, Aurora) including caching (ElastiCache)

• Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on Cloud (preferably AWS)

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 $163,600.00 to $221,400.00. 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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