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.

Prudential’s Chief Data Office is seeking a EDP - Foundational Tech Lead to own the technical decisions for the EDP - Foundational product team, valuing simplicity and willing to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve Agile design. The EDP - Foundational Tech Lead will report into the Chief Product Owner, Data & Modeling Platforms and Head of Data Engineering and Ecosystems.  

As a Tech Lead, the person will work with the agile product teams to align technical execution to the overall strategy. The Tech Lead is an executor as well as the visionary force behind the technical solution and will be responsible for enabling a high quality, highly available and scalable technology transforming conversational capabilities for the enterprise.   This person will work collaboratively across Prudential and third-party vendors to deliver a technology-led, intelligent platform that supports our customer’s success.  

The successful candidate must have deep technical domain subject matter experience, execution and operations of data analytics platforms, bring a servant leader and strategic approach, employ strong communication skills and organizational awareness and a business acumen mindset to translate business needs to technical specifications.   

Responsibilities: 

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




• Guide project 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’.  




• 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. 




• Be hands on and engage in coding to help the team to develop a solution and solve all surfacing problems at hand. Constantly look for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo. 




• 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. 




• Develop and implement end-to-end data solutions (ingest, storage, integration, processing, access) in AWS, data intake/request/onboarding services and service documentation, data ingestion services for batch/real time data ingest and service documentation, data processing services for batch/real time (Glue/Kinesis/EMR)  and service documentation, data storage services for data lake(S3)/ data warehouses(RDS/Redshift)/ data marts and service documentation, and data services layer including Athena, Redshift, RDS, microservices and APIs 




• Develop and implement pipeline orchestration services including lambda, step functions, MWAA (optional), data security services (IAM/KMS/SM/encryption/anonymization/RBAC) and service documentation, data access provisioning services (Accounts, IAM Roles RBAC), processes, documentation and education, and data provisioning services for data consumption patterns including microservices, APIs and extracts 

Skills / Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field 




• Strong communication skills to align the organization on complex technical decisions (e.g., with architecture committee) 




• Significant experience of Agile infrastructure, environments, and deployment strategies / technologies to drive efficient working practices and DevOps  




• Understands relationship between Product Owner, Scrum Master, and rest of team, with a strong sense of design thinking 




• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the team’s potential 




• Experience in Agile Development 




• High energy and passionate individual who inspires teammates to reach their maximum potential 




• Experience working on projects that span multiple organizations and business units 




• Data driven - uses methodologies, metrics, and analysis to plan, assess performance against business goals 




• Full stack development experience building secure internal facing applications  




• Programming experience with Java, Python/Scala, Shell scripting




• Solid experience of AWS services such as CloudFormation, S3, Glue, EMR/Spark, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, KMS, SM etc 




• Experience implementing metadata solutions leveraging AWS non-relational data solutions such as ElastiCache and DynamoDB 




• Experience and understanding of various core AWS services such as IAM, Cloud Formation, EC2, S3, EMR/Spark, Glue, Datasync, CloudHealth, CloudWatch, Lambda, Athena, and Redshift 

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. 

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