Director, Tech Lead - Data Engineering at Prudential Ins Co of America in Newark, New Jersey

Job Description:

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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 at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Your Team

As a Director, Tech Lead for a data engineering team in Data Strategy & Stewardship solution, you will partner with product owners, engineers and solution architect engineers to support the FM Transformation model input data capability. This position is a true hands-on Data Engineer & Tech Lead role to build and enhance the FM lake-house platform which is 100% cloud native in AWS. You will have the opportunity to work with a group of talented cloud and software engineers to write infrastructure and application code for a mission-critical system. You will be lead an agile team that brings together a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to solve complex problems within AWS environment.

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


• 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’.


• Guide teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration, and automated deployment


• Collaborate with global technology partners, solution architecture engineer, tech lead, product owner and team members to drive outcomes with focus on enriched customer experience


• Have a rich coding background in Python, Java or C#. Coding should still be your daily routine and like communicating ideas through coding and prototyping.


• Use git and create pull request as part of your daily routine


• Can understand and update existing CloudFormation code or create new CloudFormation template.


• Work on multiple projects simultaneously and maintain accountability


• Can quickly prototype something in AWS and demonstrate the outcome.


• 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.


• Deliver end to end solution using innovative approaches to complex design problems


• Work flexible hours as needed to accommodate onsite and offshore team needs


• Thrives to ensure code quality is high with supporting unit test and automation, and timely delivery


• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and new AWS services or features.


• Drives low-level design and contributes to high-level architecture.

 

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Must have degree with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field


• 7-10 years of experience in the development and design of complex applications   


• Have hands-on knowledge of CloudFormation, coded and deployed CloudFormation templates in real AWS environment before. Or you are an expert with Terraform.


• Experience in leading a team, preferrable with offshore members


• Must have experience with data platform, data lake and lake house architecture. Have hands-on experience of building data lake with AWS S3 in production environment.


• Deep proficiency in more than one programming language is required. Knowledge of AWS services, Python, PySpark will be required.


• Deep proficiency in Data Workflow and Data Pipeline, good knowledge of AWS Step Function or Apache Airflow.


• Able to disassemble thousands of lines of existing code and make good sense of it and break it down to meaningful components.


• Built serverless application before, fluent with coding in Lambda, Glue and API Gateway. Worked in Linux environment and familiar with shell scripting.


• Knowledge of Dev ops, CI/CD knowledge required. Understand AWS CodeBuild. CodePipeline services and automation.


• Good knowledge of AWS Redshift is required, (possibly with another RDMS service i.e., RDS, Aurora, etc.)


• Must have working knowledge of containers with ability to create docker file


• Experience with microservice-based architecture, have experience of building a ECS or ESK Cluster and deploying containers to it.


• Familiar with application load balancer, API Gateway and how to secure APIs.


• Familiar with security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways


• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must

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.

What we offer you:

• 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


• Retirement plans:


• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)


• Company-funded pension plan


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  Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs


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  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.


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  Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.


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  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.

To find out more about our Total Reward package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

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 $173,500.00 to $234,700.00. 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.

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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