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

Prudential's Distributor Domain team empowers Prudential's agents and advisors to sell life insurance, annuities and retirement services to customers nationwide. Our enterprise-wide platform team plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering solutions across multiple lines of business across the company. The Distributor Domain 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. We combine agentic development with an interesting and diverse mix of technologies, including graph databases, to rapidly automate and innovate. We are technically fearless and have a passion for delivering simple and elegant solutions to complex, ambiguous problems.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Conceive the architecture and design for complex, ambiguous problems while delivering an elegant and simple solution.
• Build and deliver technical solutions via hands-on and agentic coding, acting as a technical subject matter expert and force multiplier for the team.
• Serve as a guide and mentor on microservices design, development practices, agile delivery, and continuous dev-ops integration.
• Coordinate the requirements and prioritization of product owners and project planning of scrum masters while engaging with your peer technical leads and extending your influence across the organization.
• Innovate and influence the journey's roadmap with big ideas, strategic proposals and necessary technical investments.
• Learn the latest patterns and technologies, applying them to solve problems and deliver value across multiple lines of business at Prudential.
• Facilitate adoption of client teams into the domain, appropriately balancing platform functionality with the need for customization.
• Hold a high bar for quality and excellence in the entire SDLC (including design, coding, testing and planning).

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Demonstrated success in leading technical teams to deliver innovative and high value solutions
• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to deal with ambiguity
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, working with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Mastery in at least one programming language with the ability to mentor junior to senior colleague engineers
• Advanced technical experience with several of the following:

• Microservices architectures and scaling distributed systems
• Relational and NoSQL database design and development
• Object-oriented design and development with a familiarity of functional programming and event-driven paradigms
• Agile development methodologies

• Preferred qualifications (a plus, not a must):
  • Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent
  • Java
  • Spring Framework / Spring Boot
  • MongoDB and/or graph-database experience
  • Agentic patterns (MCP, RAG, LangChain, etc.)
  • Financial/Insurance industry background

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:

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 $206,000.00. 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 Programsincluding 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 accommodations.hw@prudential.com.

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

Client-provided location(s): Newark, NJ

Job ID: Prudential-R-122585

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-11-22T18:39:12