Lead, Tech Lead

PFI Innovation Centre India is an exciting new innovation center. We’re building a future that helps people live better lives longer – and we’re looking for bold thinkers and team players to help us do it.

Here, you’ll tackle complex challenges, collaborate with brilliant minds across the globe, and grow your career while helping millions achieve financial security.

a Purpose Driven Company – 150 Years While the PFI Innovation Centre brand is new to India, you’ll be a part of the Prudential Financial, Inc. family. Founded in Newark, NJ, we serve 50 million customers across more than 50 countries. With $1.334 trillion in assets, we’re a global leader in institutional asset management. The 2nd largest life insurer in the US and the 9th largest institutional global asset manager.

At the PFI Innovation Centre India, you’ll find high-performance culture that’s flexible, collaborative, and grounded in respect. We engage with candor, take calibrated risks, and hold ourselves accountable – always focused on delivering for our customers. It’s the standard we choose every day as we grow, perform, and win as one team. We offer valuable leadership, mentoring and learning opportunities, paired with flexibility and support to help you thrive.

Whether you’re just starting out or ready to take your next step, we’ll help you grow with purpose and do the best work of your career.

What You Will Do As a Lead, Tech Lead in Global Technology and Operations, you will report to the Finance Technology Lead and will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve Financial Accounting Platforms. You will architect, design, code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, and deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers!

What You Can Expect

• Build, Architect and Design applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; actively code and execute against the roadmap
• Develop high-quality, well-documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable Prudential standards
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact
• Demonstrate experience with service management functions including tight adherence to change, incident, and problem management practices
• Show a hunger for continuous improvement, with proven ability to identify and eliminate operational toil through automation and AI
• Continue to advance understanding of relevant and emerging technologies with learning and innovation embedded in the day-to-day.
• Work on problems of moderate scope in which analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript, Springboot, and Node.js Frameworks

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• 6-8 years of experience in financial services technology, ideally with a focus in Corporate Technology working with Enterprise ledger and procurement platforms
• Financial knowledge / experience (investments, actuarial, finance)
• Demonstrated knowledge of agentic AI concepts and frameworks, with the ability to design, guide, and implement AI-driven solutions that leverage autonomous agents to enhance business and technology outcomes
• Strong understanding of the SDLC process, with a focus on application support and release management
• Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Strong research, analytical, and investigation skills
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with the following:
• Programming Languages: Python, Java or Java Script; working in distributed systems, object-oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring CLI, Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Data Store: Relational Data structures, SQL
• Experience with the Atlassian product suite, including JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge/understanding of the following:
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as REST, JSON.
• Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
• DevOps Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket; DevOps, GitHub actions
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services: AWS Services such as AWS Glue, AWS Lamda, CloudWatch

What will set you apart?

• AWS Development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking
• Understanding of AI and how to leverage it in application development and automation
• PFI Innovation Centre India welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.