Manager, 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.

Do you enjoy turning complex business needs into modern, scalable technology solutions? As a Manager, Tech Lead supporting Retirement Strategies, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers, delivery professionals, and technology leaders to launch financial products using modern architectural approaches. You will guide technical direction, build consensus, develop engineers, and translate broad deliverables into actionable plans aligned with enterprise modernization strategy.

• Develop, maintain, and modernize the services and capabilities within your scope.
• Own technical design and infrastructure and environment strategy, including deployment approaches for team deliverables.
• Partner with product owners and technology leaders to shape roadmaps, evaluate design and integration options, and influence delivery decisions.
• Monitor service performance, uptime, and health while establishing strong operational and development practices.
• Mentor engineers, support code reviews and domain ownership, and remove complex technical impediments affecting delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 2-4 years of hands-on application-development experience using Java, Spring Boot, Python, Node.js, React, or Angular.
• 2-3 years of experience leading small to mid-sized teams and leveraging diverse perspectives to achieve results.
• Experience with Agile development, Test-Driven Development, and designing and developing financial-services applications.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, executive communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.

• Experience developing Java or Python applications using the AWS development stack.
• Experience with ECS, containers, GitHub, Kong or Apigee, and authentication and authorization patterns for Java services.
• Strong understanding of technology modernization strategy and emerging technologies.
• Ability to communicate sophisticated technical solutions clearly to business and executive audiences.
• 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.

Skills: Java , Spring Boot , Agile development