Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. Retirement Strategies Technology is at the forefront of modernizing how we deliver retirement security. The team is driving multi-year investments in digital platforms, automation, and advanced data capabilities to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. By blending human expertise with cutting-edge technology, Retirement Strategies Technology is shaping a future where retirement planning is more accessible, personalized, and secure. Location: Newark, NJ hybrid (minimum 3 days/week in office) Your Team As a Director, Tech Lead on the Retirement Strategies Institutional team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to deliver quality platforms and products with speed. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do. Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments 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 Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables. Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks