Senior Specialist, Internet/Web Application at Prudential Ins Co of America in Newark, New Jersey

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Prudential’s Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to 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 the Global Technology organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock a challenging and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.
 

The candidate for this position will be a key member of a diverse team of developers working on a prudential authenticated experience. The candidate will be responsible to support all phases of the system development and implementation process including analysis, design, development, testing and ongoing maintenance.  The successful candidate will work on the full technology stack (Angular, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Java, SQL, Python). 

This position requires an individual with strong analytical, programming, problem solving, organizational, and technical writing skills who must be able to work on complex projects with minimal guidance.  

Qualifications 

• Familiar with various systems development lifecycles (SDLC, Agile)




• Strong sense of OOP software design concept




• Strong experience building complex UI/UX components




• Proficient in web development technologies including native web component, Frameworks like Angular and/or React




• Knowledge with AWS or Google cloud is a plus




• Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, Strong communication skills, experienced with collaboration tools including Atlassian suite




• Self-learner, technology advocate eager to work on any challenge




• Proficient with high level programming languages like Java 8 and above, (Python a plus)




• Experience in Microservices Architecture with Spring Boot and ORM Frameworks like Hibernate and JPA




• Exposure to relational database like SQL Server, or PostgreSQL




• Demonstrated capability in Prudential Leadership Competencies: especially




• Strong Moral Compass, Taking Appropriate Risks, Collaboration, and Execution 

Required Skills 

• At least 3-5 years of experience working in technology.    




• Fluency with Agile Delivery




• An ability to work with ambiguous and abstract concepts, as the candidate will often have to resolve complex customer inquiries




• Ability to process new concepts and technologies quickly, has an appetite for learning




• A problem-solving mindset, someone with the skills and attributes to find the most appropriate solution that will bring about the desired change/outcome




• Strong written and verbal communication skills




• Ability to multi-task and flex when priorities change 




• Must have three (3) years of experience with all of the following: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, CSS Pre-processing (Sass), and JSON; Node.js, NPM, ExpressJS, Bower, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, Browserify, and Selenium; REST Web Services, Typescript, ES6, Git Based Source; Control Systems, Subversion, Micro-services, performance tuning services, Jenkins, Docker, Cloud, and AWS; Browser Developer Tools, Testing/Debugging, HTTP, Web Sessions, Browser storage, JWT (JSON Web tokens), Cookies, and Web Performance Creating testable code and writing unit/integration tests; and Experience with Automation software




• Experience building and supporting enterprise level applications, using any of the following technologies is a plus: NodeJS, SpringBoot, Swagger, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Kafka, AWS Event Bridge 

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ and its affiliates.

Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

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