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Director, Tech Lead
Director, Tech Lead-March 2024
Newark
Mar 28, 2026
About Director, 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, 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 Director, Tech Lead in Individual Life Insurance Technology, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve Individual Life Insurances New Business and Underwriting capabilities. You will provide guidance on technical strategy, design the overall technology architecture and mentor and coach the technical team 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.

  Drive the Individual Life Insurance Technology vision, designing the overall technological architecture of the New Business and Underwriting components with support of the team

  Responsible for 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 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

  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

  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 implement software 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

  Significant 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

  Experience designing and developing React UIs

  Working knowledge of BPM tools is a plus, not a must

  Financial/Insurance industry experience 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.

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

  Tuition Assistance to help finance...

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

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