Senior Software Engineer - MDM​/RDM & API Development

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 Senior Software Engineer (MDM) in the Chief Data Office (CDO), you will partner closely with architects, product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to enhance our Master Data Management (MDM) platform. You will design, code, test, and debug new and existing applications and platform capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems and deliver innovative products, services, and customer experiences.

In this role, you will bring strong problem‑solving abilities, clear communication, and effective teamwork, along with agile ways of working, solid business insight, an inclusive leadership mindset, and a continuous learning focus to everything you do.

This role is based in our office in Newark, NJ. Our organization follows a hybrid work structure where employees can work remotely and from the office, as needed, based on demands of specific tasks or personal work preferences. This position is hybrid and requires your on‑site presence on a reoccurring weekly basis at least 3 days per week.

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; actively code against the roadmap
• 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 an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day‑to‑day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in‑depth evaluation of various factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Spark and Node.js frameworks.

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• 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

• MDM Tools:
  Preferably Ataccama or any other major MDM tool.
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Python, Spark working in distributed systems, object‑oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology.
• Data Store:
  No
  
  SQL or Relational Data structures
• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
• Application Programming Interfaces (API):
  Consumption & Development; implementing service‑oriented architecture (SOA) patterns;
  Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
• Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non‑functional)
• Automated testing
• Familiarity with unix/linux, bash, and common shell commands
• Dev Ops Tools & Practices:
  Branching techniques and usage of Git Hub, Bitbucket or Subversion;
  Dev Ops, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC):
  Monitoring and logging…