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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.

Were on a mission to build a best-in-class Developer Portal to be used by our own development and product communities as well as by external developers and product professionals. The Developer Portal will become the business user and developer friendly marketplace to learn about Prudentials integration capabilities learn how to integrate with us and perform the necessary activities to use our technology.

Your Team

As the Director Tech Lead of the Developer Portal within the Application Patterns Team under the CTO you will be responsible for establishing a strategic technical roadmap to empower business product teams in delivering next-generation product-based integration capabilities.

You will lead a team of engineers and contribute hands-on to deliver a best-in-class scalable aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly Developer Portal. Collaboration with key stakeholders such as Product Owners Tech Leads Solution Architects and Engineers from business application and product teams will be crucial in designing and implementing the Prudential Developer Portal.

You will act as the central hub in the hub-and-spoke model providing the platform for business teams to build upon. Your role will involve leading by example simplifying designs and challenging requirements to ensure optimal solutions are created.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Lead a team of engineers in developing the UI/UX API automation and other components of the Developer Portal.

• Collaborate with the Application Patterns Product Owner to define the technical delivery roadmap for the Prudential Developer Portal.

• Be in constant communication and sync with our businesses who will capitalize on the capabilities of the Developer Portal to build the best-in-class experiences to drive business growth and adoption of our integration capabilities

• Provide expertise in front-end and API application development.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Information Security teams to establish best practices for delivering the Developer Portal in the public web space.

• Drive the success of the product through metrics and customer satisfaction scores.

• Maintain operational solutions to ensure production uptime.

• Identify opportunities for simplifying the developer experience and supporting tools.

• Cultivate an agile development mindset promoting frequent small changes.

• Ensure effective communication of changes and maintain a constant feedback loop with developers.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent relevant experience

• Extensive experience in Application Development Engineering Analytics or similar fields.

• Strong technical skills in:

  • Development Automation Infrastructure as Code

  • Java Python or similar programming languages

  • Terraform/CloudFormation or similar technologies

  • Web development technologies (e.g. HTML CSS JavaScript React )

  • Containerization (e.g. Kubernetes Docker)

  • Observability including metrics logs and end-to-end tracing

  • Cloud architecture and implementation (AWS Azure or GCP)

  • Serverless-first design patterns

  • Information Security (e.g. Authz Authn encryption traffic flows)

  • APIs both external and internal (e.g. Kong Apigee API Gateway)

  • Domain-driven design

  • Modular and reusable code

  • Agile methodology

• Strong problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to effectively leverage diverse ideas experiences and perspectives for organizational benefit.

• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

• Insurance / Financial industry background a plus

• Expertise in:

  • Effective communication tools and techniques

  • Decision-making and critical thinking processes

  • Interpersonal relationship building

  • Financial/business acumen

  • Analytical thinking

  • Agile methodologies

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.

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.

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

• Company-funded pension plan.

• Wellness Programs including up to $1600 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.