Lead, Software Engineer - Salesforce

Job Classification

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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.

As a Lead Software Engineer – Salesforce in Group Insurance, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve Group Insurance Products. 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.

• 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, JavaScript, React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks.

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively 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
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Advanced experience and/or expertise with Salesforce and several of the following:
  • Sales Force
  • Core Technical
• Apex development (classes, triggers, batch processing)
• Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• SOQL/SOSL queries and optimization
• Salesforce APIs (REST, SOAP, Bulk, Streaming)
• Visualforce (for legacy systems)
• Architecture & Integration
• Salesforce DX and source‑driven development
• Integration patterns (middleware, ETL, event‑driven)
• Platform events and Change Data Capture
• Mule Soft or other integration platforms
• Dev Ops & Governance
• CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Copado)
• Version control and release management
• Governor limits management and optimization
• Security model (profiles, permission sets, sharing rules)
• Advanced/Specialized
  • Salesforce CPQ, Service Cloud, or Sales Cloud
  • Einstein Analytics / Tableau CRM
  • Experience Cloud (communities/ports)
  • Heroku integration
  • Agentforce
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Python, Java or Java Script; object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology;
• Application Programming Interfaces (API):
  Consumption & Development; implementing service‑oriented architecture (SOA) patterns;
  Web service technologies such…