Job Description:

Job Classification:

Technology - Software Development/Quality Engineering

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.

Primary Responsibilities: 

The Director works closely with the Middleware Product Owner and Release Train Engineer responsible for the planning, execution, and implementation of a wide variety of business outcomes.

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  Provides technical leadership and sets architectural guidelines for a Product Solution train.

  
  


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  Collaborates with other Journey Architects to drive alignment on technology strategies and cross Journey dependencies

  
  


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  Drives development and implementation of business-driven features

  
  


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  Follows the technology vision and target state and influences the adoption of architecture principles, patterns, and standards to the teams

  
  


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  Creates technology Enablers, Features, and Architectural Runway for each Program Increment and presents them at Pre-Planning and Planning events.

  
  


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  Understands business needs, performing analysis, and transforming them into technology designs and patterns

  
  


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  Aids in the analysis of short and long range business goals and recommends innovations which anticipates the future impact of changing business needs

  
  


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  Contributes to application roadmap and reference architecture to implement architecture standards. Ensure architecture patterns are built for reusability and can be easily adopted and leveraged.

  
  


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  Employs industry best practices to deliver world-class solutions. Ensure developed solutions remain compliant with all applicable Prudential standards

  
  


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  Manages a staff responsible for all phases of the system development and implementation process

  
  


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  Leads, supervises, or assists with incident and problem resolution activities by researching problems with a strong sense of ownership and develop solutions to address the problems

  
  


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  Enforces code quality through guidance on automated test suite activities

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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  Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

  
  


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  Strong knowledge of EA and Solution Architecture frameworks and best practices.

  
  


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  Experience in designing & implementing platforms to deliver at scale performance and highly available solutions

  
  


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  Experience architecting solutions which include various integration patterns

  
  


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  Deep knowledge of business processes and business and technical capabilities, preferably in the Insurance industry

  
  


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  Ability to execute upon a clear strategic vision for common application target state architecture that supports the enterprise and business strategies

  
  


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  Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)

  
  


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  Excellent problem-solving techniques

  
  


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  Clear, professional communications (listening, oral and written communications) 

  
  


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  Strong relationship building and collaboration skills

  
  


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  Experience working with agile Scrum teams

  
  


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  Understanding of Middleware technology and Integration principles.

  
  


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  A successful candidate will possess 8+ years of experience with the following:

  
  
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    Experience in middleware integration design patterns and design methodology

    
    
  
  
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    Experience with IIB (IBM Integration Bus), webMethods, MQ, Service Oriented Architecture

    
    
  
  
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    Experience implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns

    
    
  
  
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    Experience with Web service technologies such as REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

    
    
  
  
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    Experienced in monitoring and logging techniques

    
    
  
  
  
  

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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:

If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, which may include an assessment, please call (800) 433-8960, prompt 4 or email accommodations.hw@prudential.com.

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