Director, Data Tech Lead

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach, the technical team providing feedback on deliverables and project timelines including support with code reviews, domain knowledge and ownership, SLA development and application reliability. Coach and educate team on industry trends and emerging technologies, elevating the business acumen of the team.

• Collaborate with global technology partners, architecture, chief product owner, product owners and team members to drive outcomes with focus on enriched customer experience

• Work closely with business partners to understand needs and transform them into testable components

• Foster an Agile environment – SAFE Agile.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and maintain accountability

• Design the overall technological architecture of the product with the support of the team

• Guide teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, and automated deployment, and help to interpret technology strategy into consumable units of work deployed to the teams.

• Responsible for executing technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments, ensuring that these are kept in-line with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) mindset of ‘emerging architecture’.

• Identify and remove complex technical impediments.

• Work with Product Owner to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack. Bring forward business acumen and knowledge to influence decisions.

• Serve as technical liaison with adjacent areas to integrate applications and implement software engineering best practices for higher code quality.

• Deliver end to end solution using innovative approaches to complex design problems

• Lead technical teams to deliver high-quality products

• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence within teams.

• Work flexible hours as needed to accommodate onsite and offshore team needs

• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines

• Thrives to ensure code quality is high with supporting unit test and automation, and timely delivery

• Research problems discovered by quality assurance or product support with a strong sense of ownership and develop solutions to address the problems

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and how they can be applied to Prudential

• Drives low-level design and contributes to high-level architecture. Champion modular design, reuse, separation of concern, high cohesion, and loose coupling

• Enable change, help accelerate innovation

• Demonstrating experience with taking intelligent risks and leveraging a ‘test and learn’ mentality

• Committed to a spirit of authentic partnership – to colleagues both internal and external to the organization

• Conduct unit testing and integration testing for functionality

• Ensure that software standards, non-functional requirements, and quality targets are met

Qualifications:

• Must possess graduate-level degree with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 5-7 years of experience in the development and design of complex applications
• Deep proficiency in more than one programming language is required. Knowledge of a combination of ETL (Informatica Tools), AWS services, Python, Pyspark will be required.
• Must have experience with relational databases- such as, DB2, PostgresRDS and data analytics. Database Program
• Knowledge of Dev ops, CI/CD knowledge required. Ability to adapt and drive migration of pipelines
• Salesforce/ Adobe AEP, Marketo integration experience desired, or ability to adapt.
• Must be able to create technical patterns, governance, and drive implementation.
• Experience with service implementation using microservice-based Architecture. (Apigee etc) is a plus not required
• Working knowledge of Customer and marketing domain is a plus, but not required
• Familiar with security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways
• Understanding of Agile SDLC methodologies is required
• Driven, self-motivated, able to work under pressure using sound judgment & professionalism.
• Must demonstrate a craving for continuous improvement, through understanding of new technology innovation and its application
• Acts as a change agent and champions employee engagement within SCRUM team by being positive, direct, data-driven, constructive, and vocally self-critical
• Certificate on basic Snowflake, AWS Architect is a plus
• Experience in building Enterprise Data Catalog, Enterprise Data Lake and Data Governance is a plus

Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $163,600.00 to $221,400.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.

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.

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