Manager, Tech Delivery - Engineering

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.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for design, develop and deliver usable, adaptable, reliable, and secure business software solutions to contribute to the regional business growth. You will apply the latest agile development methodology and process to deliver software with speed and quality. You will work in an energetic project team in a start-up like setting to contribute to the success of our digital initiative. You should be excellent communication and documentation skills.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Drive the detail design of technical solutions based on business requirements, technology roadmap and other constraints

• Hands on development using Test Driven Development

• Drive a high quality and high performance culture by applying proper development process

• Make sure that the deliverable are of highest quality and professionalism.

• Escalation management: act as primary contact of escalations of any kind of issues within the project.

• Drive continuous process improvements

• Design and document professional APIs that follow the standard and best practices

• Design and develop microservices or serverless back-end systems

• Develop web frontend with latest web framework and technologies.

• Perform code review and maintain coding standards and best practices

• Create automated tests and unit tests

• Prepare technical documentations, including technical proposal, design document, etc.

• Develop CI/CD pipeline for software to be deployed to cloud platforms

• Maintain production systems and investigate issues when they occur

• Create tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows

• Build rapid prototyping and development to test innovative ideas in the market.

• Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years of proven work experience in software development

• Solid experience in reactive programming in Java

• Solid experience in Business Process management tool like Camunda/Flowable

• Experience working in a product-oriented, team-based environment that uses modern digital delivery approaches such as user experience design, lean, agile, DevOps, and cloud computing

• Experience working in a technical environment that makes use of languages, frameworks, techniques, and technologies such as Java, Couchbase, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, Azure, Terraform

• Hands-on programming, coding, debugging and monitoring

• Solid experience in OOP

• Strong experience and knowledge in API, system integration, microservices, business reporting, software engineering concepts and best practices

• Experience in Flink

• Experience in microservices design pattern

• Experience in Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience in Serverless technology is an advantage.

• Experience in development with Cloud based services (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.). Experience in Azure will be an advantage.

• Familiar in pub/sub and event driven style development (Kafka, MQ, Azure Event Hub, etc.)

• Strong analytical mind and logical thinking

• Excellent analytical and time management skills

• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

• “Can do” mentality

• Fluent English skills and can communicate and present professionally with ease.

• Proven ability to simplify and navigate in highly ambiguous situations

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent relevant technical field.

 

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.