Director, Software Engineer at Prudential Ins Co of America in Newark, New Jersey

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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 & Role 

As the Director, Software Engineer on the Platform Enablement Journey for USB Technology, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, feature teams, solutions architects, and other engineers to improve and modernize the infrastructure that supports the organizations strategic administration platform.

This is a highly visible platform that supports our U.S. Life, Retirement Strategies, and Institutional business administration functions. The strategic administration platform plays a vital role in our success by supporting our current operations and advancing our goals and objectives for business growth. As a seasoned technical leader, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong technical insight, an inclusive leadership attitude, as well as a drive for continuous learning.

This is a dynamic role responsible for executing on the strategy and assisting the Product Owner to ensure the successful implementation of our strategic architecture. Along with providing technical leadership and mentoring the teams, you will be expected to solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact across our U.S. business lines.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day   

• Execute on the platform’s strategic vision, providing constant feedback to the team and helping to set and drive toward the vision


• Collaborate with the CPO, PO’s, SAE’s, and team members to define the backlog that supports the enhanced technical design


• Partner with Business Feature teams to prioritize requirements that support the existing business, while managing the goals of transitioning to a strategic platform


• Understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact and support the goals.


• Partner with the vendor on infrastructure design and alignment sessions


• Lead the implementation of enhanced architecture development leveraging the enterprise tools and standards


• Implement automated DevOps enhancements to streamline deployments


• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day

The Skills & Expertise You Bring 

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering; or experience in related fields


• 4 – 5 years’ experience with industry leading administration platforms supporting Life Insurance and Annuities businesses a must


• Proven ability to collaborate with vendor platforms


• Strong belief in a non-hierarchal structure of collaboration, transparency and trust


• Proven ability to mentor team members and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization


• Experience with raising issues up/down the organization and resolution handling


• Ability to find creative solutions and drive out of the box ideas


• Knowledge of full software development life cycle (SDLC)


• Prior hands-on experience with modernized cloud technologies a plus


• Experience in working with DevOps automation tools & practices


• Knowledge of concept and principles of agile methodology; ability to apply appropriate agile approaches to effectively lead the team


• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills; enjoy learning new skills.

Knowledge of:

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  Cloud Computing: AWS, Azure 


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  Programming Languages: .Net, Python, Java or JavaScript


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  Frameworks: Springboot, Node.js


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  Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures


• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)


• Architecture Patterns


• Design Thinking

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.

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