Director, Tech Lead Jobs

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.
Global Technology - Developer Experience and Platforms team is looking for a strong Tech Lead - Application Development, with strong experience in building tooling, SDKs, CLIs, Platforms and cloud native reference implementation while specialized in Mobile Application development, for consumption by business development communities across the enterprise globally. As a lead your focus is to design, bring in best practices working with the architecture group and develop innovative products that brings agility in our developer community! 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. Engineers in the group can be found wearing any number of hats: from software engineer, solution designer, developers, reliability engineer to developer advocate and evangelist .
Core Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other team members to design, implement, and deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers (Enterprise Architect and line of business development teams)
• Actively research, keeping up with the latest trends across Cloud, Web, Microservices and Android and iOS platforms/ecosystems.
• Collaborate with Developer Experience and Platforms Product Owner and drive team, process, and architectural standards that reflect the unique complexities of mobile development while also complementing existing and ongoing work within other areas of Global Technology.
• Design, review, write and test code – this is hands-on engineering role, and you will be directly involved in the design and development of new features, writing, reviewing and testing code
• Lead development within the developer experience and platforms team, mentor and grow the technical competencies of the team through code reviews and active development
• Work in all phase of an agile software development life cycle, including collecting requirements, suggesting methodologies and technologies, and delivery.
• Build a mixed team of in-house and off / near-shore developers that are responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving reference implementation of (abstract) Enterprise Mobile , web and microservices Applications Patterns

Key Requirements / Technology Skills:

• Extensive experience with iOS and Android development
• NodeJS, Java/Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift
• Experience working within environments that rely heavily on automation, CI, and CD concepts to rapidly deliver, measure, and iterate on products and features
• JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, ReactJS, Vue.js
• Experience with Agile / Scrum methods, practice, and ceremonies.
• Ability to work through new and difficult framework issues and contribute to libraries as needed
• Master's degree in Computer Science/equivalent or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Experience leading and contributing to high-functional, large-scale architecture
• Experience working with hybrid and cloud application stacks
• Extensive experience with mobile application security and authentication methods / protocols
• Someone who enjoys working in a brand new organization where you will have a key role in defining our processes/structure/framework
• 6+ years general software development experience
• Experience working within a service-oriented application platform
• Hands on Mobile development experience (native, hybrid or browser-based, Android or iOS)
• 2+ years as Tech Lead ( Mobile Development)
• Passion for software development and working collaboratively with teams
• Hybrid frameworks such as Cordova, React Native
• GraphQL or RESTful web services and consuming APIs in a mobile interface
• Experience leading remote teams as well as in-house mobile / full stack developers

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.
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