Engineering Lead

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.