Lead, Software Engineer

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 Lead Software Engineer in the Chief Investment Office, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve our investment and risk management platforms.  You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! 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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments  
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable Prudential standards  
• Provide support to the Chief Investment Office technical product/solution vision, designing the technological solution approach/architecture in conjunction with other teams & team members
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design, and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact 
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day  
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
• Create and maintain team documentation capturing environment setup instructions, development workflows, software processes, and application business logic
• Provide timely solutions on urgent production support tasks for our international user base – work with users across different time zones to troubleshoot application issues and provide code fixes
• Perform continuous business analysis as main point of contact with business users: gather user requirements, translate business needs into technical requirements, and work with users to understand/troubleshoot critical production issues
• Write and maintain integration testing for application across our multiple modules
• Maintenance of multilingual trading applications with global user bases 
• Flexibility to work after normal business hours (on-call)

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering and/or experience in related fields
• Expertise in integrating applications with Bloomberg Data License API for programmatically pulling securities data
• Thorough experience working with Bloomberg Terminal for market data/analysis purposes
• Advanced experience in managing Windows Services, particularly integration with Java and Python business applications
• Knowledge/ability to maintain SSIS packages for ETL Pipelines/data reporting processes
• Hands-on experience in integrating applications with CI/CD pipelines and AWS for deployments
• Extensive experience in containerization of business applications, specifically with Docker
• Strong front-end web application experience in design, architecture, and implementation: expertise in AngularJS and Angular (7 ) frameworks and libraries such as Kendo and PrimeNG
• Highly proficient in Java server-side/API development (Java versions 8 and 11): expertise in Spring framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, Reactor (reactive programming), Maven
• High level of proficiency in SQL scripting and database design: comfortable with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Broad knowledge of financial instruments and asset classes (Public/Private Fixed Income, Asset Backed Securities, Swaps, Options, FX, etc.)    
• Thorough understanding of the end-to-end trading workflow in an asset management organization -- from security selection strategy, to trade execution, to recordkeeping & data reconciliation
• Extensive knowledge of Pension Risk Transfer bidding process and related securities analysis for assets-in-kind
• Extensive experience working in an international role -- collaborating with offshore developers and providing prompt support to international users across different time zones
• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization  
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• 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
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:
  • Programming languages: Java, Python, Typescript, HTML, CSS, SQL
  • Development Frameworks/Libraries: AngularJS, Angular, Node.js, Spring and Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, Maven, Ant
  • Databases: Relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), SSIS Package development & maintenance
  • Programming/architectural paradigms: Multi-threading & parallel processing, distributed systems, object-oriented programming, functional programming
  • Application Programming Interfaces (API): Expertise in design/architecture of applications within microservices framework; Web service technologies such as REST APIs, JSON, XML
  • Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
  • Accessibility awareness
  • DevOps and CI/CD Tools: Git/Bitbucket, Docker, Jenkins, AWS
  • AWS Core Services: AWS services/tools such as Route 53, ECS, ECR, EC2, ALB, RDS, CloudFormation

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Architecture Patterns
  • Design Thinking

You’ll 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, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll 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 traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
• 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.

To find out more about our Total Reward 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.

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 $129,900.00 to $193,300.00. 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.