Senior Application Developer

As one of the world’s largest financial services companies, Prudential’s individual and institutional customers rely on us to protect and grow their financial well being.

Newly formed Corporate Actuarial IT organization is actively seeking a Technical Lead for Enterprise Actuarial Transformation program. Technical Lead for this area will be a seasoned hands-on technologist with strong background in designing and building modular, scalable, testable systems using modern technologies preferably in Financial Services or Insurance domain. Knowledge of design patterns and best practices, agile methodologies, and Software Development Lifecycle is required. The candidate will work closely with project stakeholders to design and lead development of the strategic architecture to support current and future business needs. He/She will influence technical direction, come up with/review detailed implementation designs and be accountable for stability and extendibility of the architecture. The candidate will actively participate in the full SDLC including development, deployment, testing and support of the application. Enterprise Actuarial Transformation is a newly launched program aimed at centralizing Actuarial systems that were traditionally aligned to individual business lines into a common architecture. The architecture will enable streamlined and optimized processes and governance around financial liability modeling and reporting to meet more stringent regulatory guidelines and support business growth. The architecture will support sophisticated, business critical, compute intensive risk calculations and projection models.

* Design and development of actuarial applications. * Collaborate with ESFS Infrastructure team in understanding infrastructure and platform requirements to optimize application design. * Lead and contribute in building solution architecture proposals, design discussions, and code reviews * Review internal as well as vendor deliverables for the accuracy and quality. * Provide technical support for the production issues resulting from new deployments, analyzing business reported issues, determining the root causes, and implementing fixes to prevent future outages.

* Minimum 5 years experience working on development of distributed, SOA and web based application * Experience in the following programming technologies is required: Java, .NET, JSON / Web Services, Perl, VB Script, AutoSys, SOA and SAN/NAS storage. Knowledge of C/C++ is plus. * Strong background on grid computing platforms like Microsoft High Performance Computing (MS HPC) and cloud computing. * Experience in Database technologies such as Oracle, MS SQL, TSQL/PSQL. Experience with creating tables, indexes, triggers, stored procedures, and creating ER diagrams. * Strong leadership and influence skills with ability to manage virtual teams across multiple organizations. * Knowledge of actuarial platforms like Polysystems, MATLab and GGY AXIS is plus. * Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills * Team player and skilled at resolving conflict and negotiating effectively and tactfully * Demonstrated track record as a critical thinker * Bachelor degree or equivalent experience