Director, Tech Lead (Information Technology)
Job Classification:
Technology - Software Development/Quality EngineeringPrudential seeks to be a standout company for inclusion, diversity, and racial equity as both a moral and business imperative. 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.
Within Global Technology the EDT & USIR organization is seeking a Director, Tech Lead to join the Platform Engineering team to focus on developing solutions that enable development teams to rapidly adopt AWS cloud computing and other advanced CTO product capabilities. This role requires understanding of diverse technology solutions, IT service and Agile way of working. The ideal candidate will leverage their technology skills to become a trusted technology partner for the technology and business units we support.
Responsibilities:
- Lead team of developers and engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes
- Coach and educate team on industry trends and emerging technologies
- Foster an Agile environment
- Collaborate with global technology partners, architects, chief product owner, product owners and team members to drive outcomes
- Guide teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, and automated deployment, and help to interpret technology strategy into consumable units of work
- Support change, help accelerate modernization and adoption
- Demonstrating experience with taking intelligent risks and leveraging a ‘test and learn' mentality
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or experience in related fields
- 7+ years building and developing complex applications, 2+ years managerial experience
- Clear, professional communications (listening, oral and written communications)
- Strong relationship building and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across the organization and influence a diverse group of stakeholders and technical experts
- Previous experience in an Agile development environment
- Working knowledge of modern DevOps and CI/CD workflows and tools
- Strong technical experience planning, building and running cloud applications within AWS, including microservices patterns, security integration, and cloud native development support. (AWS certification a plus)
- Ability to demonstrate a systematic approach to problem-solving coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
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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