Engineering Lead

Prudential plc
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers to design, develop and provide support for various digital customer, sales and finance platforms and systems. As part of this dynamic role you will work closely with business units and other IT teams to deliver leading edge technology to enable digital capabilities of Prudential Singapore.

Key Responsibilites

  • Requirements and manage expectations.
  • Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions leveraging the new and existing technology stacks.
  • Provide oversight and governance on all Platform projects
  • Participate and facilitate technical discussions with team as well as all other stakeholders
  • Define and evolve technical standards and processes for both the platform and the team
  • Develops data integration, migration and deployment strategies
  • Build relationships with / between key internal and external stakeholders
  • Manages and mentors junior team members
  • Deliver applications in accordance to relevant IT policies and procedures
  • Lead projects, resolve new/complex problems which may impact the application
  • Responsible for the technical training & development of the team
  • Manages stakeholders, including influencing and persuading, as part of applications delivery and support.

Who We Are Looking For

  • Expertise in Mobile App development platform and ecosystems.
  • Strong sense and experience on SOLID principles
  • Strong culture on Software Testing (Unit Test, TDD, BDD)
  • Exposure to Front End or full-stack software development experience
  • Experience and affinity with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP/eXtreme Programming)
  • Complexity estimation / planning poker
  • Willingness to do the right thing, keep it simple
  • Strong background in design/development of React/Redux based systems
  • Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning, engineering best practices, and deployment methodologies
  • Experience with:
  • TDD/BDD
  • JavaScript - React and RN
  • Java 8+
  • RESTful APIs, Vertex REST API and Microservices development (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, etc.)
  • RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL – Couchbase, MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Event based systems / Functional Reactive development / Event Streams
  • Code Version Control tools (git, bitbucket)
  • Cloud platform (Azure, AKS, OpenShift)
  • DevOps (CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, K8s, etc.)
  • Knowledge on Salesforce is a plus
  • Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, marketing automation, reporting, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
  • Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
  • Strong background in design/development of mobile apps, or complete software product lifecycle exposure
  • Comfortable with Agile/iterative project management methodologies

Personal Traits

  • Strong sense of personal accountability
  • Excellent problem analysis skill. Innovative and creative in developing solutions
  • Strong sense of drive and commitment to deliver on responsibilities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Works well in a dynamic environment
  • Ability and willingness to be hands-on
  • Ability to abstract general principles from specifics

Working Experience

  • More than 8 years in designing and developing and support applications
  • Experience in leading / supervising an application development team
  • Experience in Agile software development
  • Experience with 3rd party vendor management is an added advantage

Education

  • Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

Language

  • Fluent written and spoken English

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

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