# Engineering Lead

**Company**: Prudential
**Location**: Kuala Lumpur
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Prudential is seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking Engineering Lead who is responsible for guiding the technical direction of the team, ensuring high standards of software quality, and guiding technical team members to reach their potential.

**Overview** This role involves a mix of platform engineering and design, hands-on development, solution architecture, and leadership responsibilities.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Define and drive technical vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with organisational goals.

- Oversee technical aspects of initiatives including system design, CI/CD, testing, and release pipeline, deployment.

- Design and implement application frameworks/platform and common/reusable functionality.

- Lead technical evaluation of vendor platforms.

- Work with both vendor and internal delivery teams to drive business solutions and deliver technical excellence.

- Define and enforce engineering best practices, including coding/implementation standards, testing, and DevOps practices.

- Make critical architectural and technical decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

- Create and maintain architecture and high-level design documentation.

- Drive solution approval with Group Solution Review Committee.

- Provide technical guidance to resolve challenging technical issues.

- Stay current with technologies and best practices and drive innovation through technology thought leadership.

- Lead efforts in automation, deployment, and monitoring to ensure efficient, high-quality releases.

**Experience and Qualification**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

- Approximately 5 years of experience within financial services.

- Approximately 12 years of experience in development and 5 years in a senior engineering role.

- Strong experience leading full-stack development.

- Good understanding of DevOps pipeline, e.g., CI/CD, containerisation, test automation, automated deployment.

- Good understanding of Agile principles.

- Risk, Compliance, and Audit Domain Knowledge is a plus.

**Technologies and Tools**

- Deep understanding of end-to-end Application Technology Stack including:

- Web Technologies (e.g., ReactJS, Javascript, HTML)

- Backend Services (e.g., Java, Python, Spring, BPMS)

- Integration Services (e.g., REST API, Kafka, MQ)

- Databases and Reporting (e.g., Postgres, MS SQL, Spark, Power BI)

- Application Security (e.g., SAML, OAuth2, data at rest and data in transit security)

- Experience in Cloud architecture (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS).

- Good understanding of DevOps pipelines.

- Familiarity with Architecture/Design Diagramming tools.

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud architecture
- DevOps pipeline
- Agile principles
- Full-stack development
- Application Technology Stack
- Web Technologies
- Backend Services
- Integration Services
- Databases and Reporting
- Application Security

### Nice to have
- Risk, Compliance, and Audit Domain Knowledge

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