PGIM Fixed Income - Manager, Business Systems Analyst

Job Classification:
Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

A GLOBAL FIRM WITH A DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE CULTURE

As the Global Asset Management business of Prudential, we're always looking for ways to improve financial services. We're passionate about making a meaningful impact - touching the lives of millions and solving financial challenges in an ever-changing world.

We also believe talent is key to achieving our vision and are intentional about building a culture on respect and collaboration. When you join PGIM, you'll unlock a motivating and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading global asset managers!

If you're not afraid to think differently and challenge the status quo, come and be a part of a dedicated team that's investing in your future by shaping tomorrow today.

At PGIM, You Can!

What you will do

Our Technology Solutions Group is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with exciting changes on the horizon under new senior leadership. We are looking for you to support and build out scalable applications for our Back and Middle Office stakeholder groups.

As a Business Systems Analyst in Data Management, you will play a pivotal role in the design and build of our data products ensuring value and viability for our Fixed Income stakeholders. You will be accountable for the product's success from vision to execution, collaborating closely with empowered, cross-functional product teams to solve customer problems that align with business outcomes. You will partner with various functions and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions. You will also be responsible for providing L3 support for production incidents and learning. We want you to see this challenge as a unique and valuable opportunity, so if this sounds interesting, then PGIM could be the place for you.

This position is performed in a hybrid manner with a mix of work performed from our office in Newark, NJ and remotely.

What you can expect

• Will be taking responsibility and ownership of product initiatives working as part of a delivery team, collaborating with others to understand requirements, analyses and refine stories, design solutions, implement them, test them, and support them in production
• Collaborate with delivery team to build fixed income data products (fixed income experience is a plus) ensuring development follows modern coding practices and industry standards
• Develop high-quality, well-documented, and efficient business requirements adhering to all applicable company standards
• Communicate effectively to conduct walkthroughs with delivery team and stakeholders and capture requirements and business outcomes
• Collaborate with tech leads to define technical designs and work with other team members to understand the system end-to-end.
• Leading delivery team in backlog refinement and prioritization and sprint planning to refine and validate user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and service requests in a timely fashion
• Prepare and implement testing plans, develop unit tests, integration tests, and functional automation, researching and resolving problems identified during testing to ensure high quality results
• Will need strong SQL skills to conduct data analysis, including diving into code (Stored Proscs, Java) to understand and extrapolate business logic and document data flows based on data analysis
• Will be proactive in raising obstacles and calling out issues that may impact sprint delivery and action-oriented in ambiguous situations

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical information to non-technical audiences and vice versa at various levels in the organization
• Strong problem solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and ability to communicate with highly technical and business management teams.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, effective decision making, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to negotiate or persuade others in complex situations.
• Ability to provide solutions to most business problems diverse in scope and serve as resource to others in the resolution of more complex issues.
• Strong data evaluation and data mapping skills as well as interface mapping to databases and multiple internal and external applications.
• Experienced with Databases and capable of writing SQL statements with knowledgeable about APIs and API interfaces
• 8+ years of experience working in a technology role preferably in software engineering, BSA/QA and/or application support.
• Knowledge of Fixed Income Asset management environments, for example trade lifecycle, operations, compliance, regulation, risk, financial reporting will be a plus.
• Team-oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new methods, tools, practices and skills
• Strong research, analytical, investigation and troubleshooting skills with a hunger for continuous learning, constantly looking for opportunities to improve upon the status quo
• Experience with writing database queries using SQL (MS SQL preferred)
• Excellent documentation skills with ability to document processes, requirements, incident resolution steps etc.

• Experience working in Linux and Cloud technologies (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience working with phase-based and Agile delivery methods and agile tools like Jira and Confluence
• Programming skills in Python or Java and experience in writing reusable/efficient code to automate analysis, testing and data processes
• Understanding of pillars of Data Quality: Completeness, Timeliness, Validity, Uniqueness, Consistency, Accuracy (or similar)

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programsincluding up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.