Lead, Tech Lead

Newark, NJ, United States

Prudential Ins Co of America Lead, Tech Lead Newark , New Jersey Apply Now Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

Job Description

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, youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

Your Team

As a Lead, Tech Lead on/in Retirement Strategies Individual Product journey, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to enable the solutioning, implementation, delivery, and maintenance of the insurance products on the platform. You will participate in design discussions to support the overall technological architecture as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

Executing technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments, ensuring that these are kept in-line with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) mentality of emerging architecture

Collaborate with product owners in aligning and executing on the roadmap accounting for strengths and opportunities within the technical stack, bringing forward business acuity and knowledge to influence decisions

Guide Agile teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, and automated deployment, as a leader and doer helping to interpret technology strategy into consumable units of work

Be hands on and engage in coding to help the team develop a technical solution to any problems at hand, domain knowledge and ownership and bring a advanced understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day

Seek better ways of solving technical impediments that may arise within the team

Code and help the Agile team to develop solutions and solve 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

Serve as a technical liaison with adjacent areas to integrate applications and engineering best practices for higher code quality

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization

Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges

Strong executive presence with an ability to translate and communicate sophisticated technical solutions in understandable terms to a broad range of audiences

Excellent problem solving and collaboration skills

Advanced experience and/or deep expertise with several of the following:

Experience in distributed systems, microservices, design patterns and design methodology

Technical leadership through previous experience in a Tech Lead role

Designing and implementing cloud native solutions on AWS

API Design and implementations

Experience with implementations in Java and scripting such as J2EE, NodeJs, Spring

Experience with non-relational and relational databases

Understanding business needs and transforming them into efficient solutions with quality

Designing solutions to align with non-functional requirements

Synchronous and asynchronous design patterns

Implementing software engineering standards and best practices

Experience leading and mentoring a team

Preferred qualifications:

Experience as a Manager of People

Automated testing experience

Financial/Insurance industry experience and experience with the FAST platform is a plus, not a must

Youll 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, well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

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What we offer you:

Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave

Retirement plans:

401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)

Company-funded pension plan

Wellness Programsto help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs

Work/Life Resourcesto help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.

Tuition Assistanceto help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan:Shares...

Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity

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