Director, Tech Lead (Information Technology)
Job Classification:
Technology - Software Development/Quality EngineeringPrudential'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.
Prudential Enterprise Data Technology Group is seeking a Director, Tech Lead Developer 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, Backend 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.
- Leads high-level architecture and 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
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and how they can be applied to Prudential
- 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
Qualification:
- Experience developing mission critical web and server applications in agile environment
- Experience managing direct reports
- Possess excellent software architecture, design and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work effectively with engineers, cross-functional teams and business partners to develop high-quality applications
- 7+ years relevant experience working on Java related technologies on Unix or Linux
- Ability to lead technical teams throughout the full software development life cycle
- 5+ years relevant experience working with backend technologies including JBoss, SpringBoot, SpringMVC, JPA, Tomcat, REST, Hibernate
- 3+ years relevant experience with Spring Security, Junit, Mockito, Maven, Groovy
- Excellent knowledge of MVC design pattern, dependency injection
- Knowledge of Responsive and Material design
- Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD
- Knowledge of DevOps tools such as CodeDeploy, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Jenkins, Ansible is highly desirable
- Experience with monitoring and logging techniques and tools such as CloudWatch, Nagios, Splunk and Dynatrace etc
- Experience with No SQL like Cassandra or MongoDB
- Experience with scripting languages like Perl, Python or Awk
- Experience with security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenId Connect, OAuth 2.0
- Experience with running application on one of the public cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
- 5+years relevant experience with client-side technologies including JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Angular 2.0+, Protractor, Jasmine, Karma, JSON, REST, TypeScript, ES6, NPM, Bower, Gulp, Grunt, WebPack
- Exposure to React and React Native
- Experience in financial domain
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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