Director, Solution Architect

Job Classification:

Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy - Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy

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.

The Global Technology organization at Prudential is seeking a Director, Solution Architect. Reporting into the VP of Digital Enablement Technology, this highly visible role will be responsible for building, influencing, and driving the adoption of common digital technology platforms that enables business priorities and achieves Prudential’s Priority Experiences and Journeys. This role will be responsible for working across the organization as part of business engineering agile teams to provide the digital engineering oversight and execution of Prudential’s digital products / services landscape within Digital.

The team is looking for a digital leader with industry experience: strong business acumen, using technology trends and best practices to solve Prudential’s business problems, deep experience with digital products / services, to drive and own business relationships, a strategic and technical mindset as well as the ability to influence business, national & international capability build.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the digital solutions, products and services that are required to build customer focused experiences across specific business agile teams, journeys, and regions to achieve business needs and Prudential digital goals
• Partner and/or delegate work to be completed by digital product-centric, cross-functional agile teams to ensure it realizes its objectives and key results
• Work with subject matter experts and other stakeholders to perform business analysis, conduct customer research, and evaluate technical solutions to drive current and future platform vision and roadmaps
• Work across the organization and with business stakeholders to resolve/communicate key issues, critical decisions, and priorities and manage expectations and delivery timelines
• Ensure the team’s initiatives are aligned with strategy to deliver business value
• Analyze the feasibility of, and developing requirements to support existing platforms and create new digital capabilities
• Plan and support business process to identify go to market strategies for new products and services
• Define and drive user experience and technical design concepts, partnering with the Global
• Technology teams, Enterprise Architecture, Data Science, and other groups across Prudential enterprise
• Focus on enabling differentiated customer experiences and self-service capabilities
• Define and execute new concepts in digital products / services, including but not limited to personalization and omnichannel experiences
• Conduct competitive and market analysis and maintain awareness of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace
• Establish and drive overall digital products / services strategy and work closely with the other business aligned agile delivery teams across Prudential
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 8+ years of technology development and leadership experiences in global financial services, technology or consulting industries
• 5+ years’ experience working on any aspect of digital products / services
• Organized, detail-oriented individual who is capable of self-managing and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, demanding global environment
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence outcomes with multiple business units and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing business priorities and a strong work ethic
• Endlessly curious in how emerging digital and technology trends can translate into excellent customer experiences
• Data-driven mindset, using quantitative tools and analyzing unstructured feedback to inform the development of solutions
• Extensive experience in building enterprise scale digital platform using micro-service & micro-frontend architecture.
• Experience in building scalable, resilient, and fault tolerant applications in the hybrid cloud infrastructure
• Good understanding of Martech and Javascript frameworks like Angular, React, Web Components
• Understanding of building loosely coupled API services platforms using tools like Java, SpringBoot, Apigee API Gateways, etc.
• Understanding of Cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Good understanding of building enterprise sales & content management systems using tools like Drupal and AEM (Adobe)
• Working knowledge of implementing automated DevOps process using tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, etc.
• Understanding of test automation leveraging testing tools such as REST Assured, Newman Postman, Selenium, etc.
• Understanding of creating enterprise scale monitoring and operational architecture using tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch
• Understanding of building native mobile apps as well as responsive Web applications

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 $129,900.00 to $175,700.00. 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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