Job Classification:
Technology - Engineering & Cloud
Prudential is a dynamic and innovative financial services company dedicated to creating solutions that deliver outcomes for a society that's living longer, younger, and faster. 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 with a company on a mission to empower individuals and businesses with cutting-edge financial solutions.
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The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership and vision across the technical spectrum to bring innovative solutions that create shareholder value and enable our business growth strategies. He or she will lead the engineering function across the organization, ensuring the solutions exceed the expectations of our clients, partners, and stakeholders. The Head of Engineering will establish credibility with key stakeholders and instill a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
Your Team
As the Head of Engineering - US Businesses reporting to the Chief Information Officer, Head of Service & Technology, you will partner with Business Technology Officers, Chief Product Owners, Solution Architect Engineers, and an amazing team of colleagues to develop and implement a comprehensive Domain Strategy & Architecture that will serve all our U.S. Businesses and set the technical foundation for the Company's next 150-years. You will collaboratively define a product roadmap identifying business outcomes and solutions that deliver on the strategy to solve sophisticated business problems. As a seasoned technology leader, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude to all that you do.
Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
- Actively participate in coding and removal of highly complex technical impediments, demonstrating high-level engineering skills and thought leadership.
- Collaborate closely with other engineers, architects, and partners to ensure the product's quality aligns with business objectives.
- Specialize in Software Engineering discipline requiring in-depth knowledge and specialized skills in that domain while maintaining fluency in infrastructure, cloud, data, machine learning.
- Attract, recruit, develop, and mentor top-notch engineering talent.
- Design and implement new modes of collaboration and communication of technical excellence.
- Assess the impact and outcome of enterprise-level findings and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Work closely with CTO and CDO teams to ensure the right platforms and capabilities are created.
- Engage and empower leaders at the enterprise and journey level to solve problems and promote inclusive engagement.
- Sponsor relevant communities of practice, empower and support CoP leaders to organize events to promote positive change.
- Create a culture empowering leaders to adopt innovative agile thinking.
- Play an active role in hiring and evaluating talent, including identifying emerging skills/technologies for development.
- Ensure alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories in line with own vision.
- Communicate frequently with a variety of stakeholders (including business presidents) to ensure engagement and buy-in on decisions and proposed solutions.
- Work with Solution Architect Engineers and Tech Leads to build a modular & reusable solutions across all lines of business.
- Leads discussions and decisions around technology options, direction, and trade-offs
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
- Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering; or experience in related fields
- Expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in the context of financial services
- Experience in working with DevOps automation tools & practices
- Knowledge of full software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
- Expert 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; enjoy learning new skills.
Expertise with several of the following:
- Effective Communication: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Decision-Making & Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
- Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
- Financial/Business Acumen: Strong knowledge of financial and/or business concepts, tools and processes and how financial metrics are used to monitor and drive outcomes. Includes understanding of company accounts/metrics (ex: balance sheet, profit/loss, cash flow, budget & forecast).
- Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
- Agile Methodologies: Knowledge of concept and principles of agile methodology; ability to apply appropriate agile approaches in the processes of software development and delivery.
Preferred qualifications:
- Programming Languages: Python, Java or JavaScript
- Frameworks: React, Springboot, Node.js
- Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures
- Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
- Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Cloud Computing
- DevOps Tools & Practices
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies
- Secure Coding Standards
- Microservices & Domain-Driven Design
- Architecture Patterns
- Design Thinking
- Agile
You'll Love Working Here Because You Can
Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we'll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You'll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.
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.
Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES:
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