Lead, Tech Lead

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.

Your Team

As a Tech Lead, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to help us launch new financial products with a modern architectural approach. You will partner with other technology leaders to brainstorm best design and integration approach for your deliverables and build consensus to implement your proposals. You will also be responsible for managing and guiding other software engineers on your team. You will look at broad deliverables, break them down into actionable building blocks and leveraging resources at hand to complete deliverables within a timeline. You will feel challenged with ensuring your design meets the firmwide systems and modernization strategy. For this, you will need to maintain a broader awareness of firmwide technology strategy, as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers In addition to deep 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.

Develop, maintain and drive modernization of the services and capabilities within your overall scope.

Responsible for technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments for your team's deliverables.

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

Monitor performance, uptime and health of your services

Go above and beyond by helping setup best practices and lead the way in helping teams in adopting best operational and development practices

Mentor and coach the technical team on results and timelines, including support with code reviews, domain knowledge and ownership and bring a deep understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day  

Identify and remove complex technical impediments that may arise within the team

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)

3-7 years of hands-on knowledge and experience with developing applications in Java, Springboot, Python, , react or angular

5+ years experience with leading small to mid-sized teams

Experience with designing and developing financial services applications

Experience with developing java or python applications in AWS development stack

Experience with using ECS, containers, Github, Kong / APIGEE and understanding of authentication and authorization enforcement in java services

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

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

Required Qualifications

•  15+ years of professional Java development experience.

•  Strong proficiency in old and modern Java frameworks as well as old web servers (like Websphere) and new (AWS ECS or Kubernetes)

•  Demonstrated hands-on experience in Java modernization/migration projects.

•  Expertise in converting legacy Java codebases to updated architectures.

•  Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

•  Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)

•  Automated testing

•  Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)

•  Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub or Bitbucket; DevOps, Jenkins or GitHub Actions

•  Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques

•  Familiarity with Claude AI coding capabilities.

•  Strong problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills.

•  Ability to work independently and in teams with minimal supervision.

•  Must be located in NY or NJ.

Preferred Qualifications

•  Experience in the insurance industry.

•  Japanese language proficiency is a plus (not a must)

•  Portfolio or GitHub repositories showcasing similar Java migration projects.

•  Conduct live coding in interview sessions to demonstrate technical skills.

What we offer you: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 $138,500.00 to $206, Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• 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. 

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

• Company-funded pension plan. 

• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs. 

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

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.  

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service. 

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. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.  

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. 

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. 

If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email  

If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email to request assistance.

---