Engineering Lead

Prudential Services Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia in Malaysia is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide the technical direction of the team, ensuring high software quality and mentoring engineers. You will own the architecture, oversee CI/CD, and drive scalable platform solutions across fintech workloads, collaborating with product and delivery teams to deliver secure, reliable systems.

The role requires hands-on development, strong leadership, and a passion for modern engineering practices in a financial services context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Approximately 5 years in financial services and 12 years in development with 5 years in senior engineering roles.
• Strong experience leading full-stack development and DevOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical vision, strategy and roadmap aligned with goals.
• Oversee system design, CI/CD, testing, release pipelines and deployments.
• Lead design of application frameworks and reusable components.
• Guide vendor platform evaluations and cross-team collaboration.
• Enforce engineering best practices, testing and DevOps standards.

Skills

Full stack leadership

DevOps & CI/CD

Agile methods

Technical leadership

Financial services domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

ReactJS

Java

Python

Spring

Kafka

MS SQL

Postgres

Spark

Power BI

SAML/OAuth2

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Overview

We are seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking Engineering Lead who is responsible guiding the technical direction of the team, ensuring high standards of software quality and guiding technical team members to reach their potential. This role involves a mix of platform engineering and design, hand-on development, solution architecture and leadership responsibilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical vision, strategy and roadmap in alignment with organisational goals.
• Oversee technical aspect of initiatives including system design, CI/CD, testing and release pipeline, deployment.
• Hand on responsibility to design and implement application frameworks/platform and common/reusable functionality.
• Lead technical evaluation of vendor platforms.
• Work with both vendor and internal delivery teams to drive business solutions and deliver technical excellence.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices, including coding/implementation standards, testing and DevOps practices.
• Make critical architectural and technical decisions to ensure scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Create and maintain architecture and high-level design documentation.
• Drive solution approval with Group Solution Review Committee.
• Provide technical guidance to resolve challenging technical issues.
• Stay current with technologies and best practices and drive innovation through technology thought leadership.
• Lead efforts in automation, deployment and monitoring to ensure efficient, high-quality releases.

Experience and Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• ~ 5 years of experience within financial services.
• ~ 12 years of experience in development and 5 years in a senior engineering role.
• Strong experience leading full stack development
• Good understanding of DevOps pipeline e.g. CI/CD, containerisation, test automation, automated deployment.
• Good understanding of Agile principles
• Risk, Compliance and Audit Domain Knowledge is a plus.

Technologies and Tools

Deep understanding of end to end Application Technology Stack including: Web Technologies (e.g. ReactJS, Javascript, HTML etc) Backend Services (e.g. Java, Python, Spring, BPMS etc) Integration Services (e.g. REST API, Kafka, MQ etc) Databases and Reporting (e.g. Postgres, MS SQL, Spark, Power BI etc) Application Security (e.g. SAML, OAuth2, data at rest and data in transit security etc) Experience in Cloud architecture (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS). Good understanding of DevOps pipelines Familiarity with Architecture/Design Diagramming tools

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

We are Prudential. For every life, we are partners. For every future, we are protectors.

Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management to 17 million customers across 20 markets in Asia and Africa. We are headquartered in Hong Kong and have dual primary listings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the London Stock Exchange. We are focused on four strategic regions: Greater China, ASEAN, India and Africa. Our customers are served by around 55,000 agents and more than 200 bank partners.

Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Find out more at www.prudentialplc.com

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