Director, Software Engineer - Event Management

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, Software Engineer

• Event Management, for the Global Patterns team within the CTO, you will work with a product owner to help lead the critical technology strategy for the Event Management team. Specifically, you will contribute with hands-on engineering to deliver event management solutions to enable resilient, event driven design patterns. You will partner with product owners, tech leads, and most importantly application development teams to understand their architecture, usage patterns to identify and build tiered event solutions. You will be responsible for championing adoption and maintaining a feedback loop to ensure product features are continuously updating and meeting the global developer needs.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Partner with your product owner and team to establish key technical delivery plans, in alignment with a strategic roadmap.

• Build and execute on the established roadmap.

• Influence product roadmap based on an understanding of the business and patterns to enable event driven design.

• Provide technical expertise as it relates to cloud, application development and infrastructure as code.

• Provide technical expertise as it relates to both real time event streaming, and batch event management.

• Lead with an application development and automation mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.

• Identify opportunities for simplification in the application development toolset, striving for reduced management and less tools which do more.

• Maintain a consistent feedback loop with application development teams to champion adoption and decommissioning of legacy technology stacks.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Deep Application Development, Engineering, Analytics, or similar experience

• Strong technical experience in

• Cloud (any of the leading clouds

• AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Real time data streaming and batch event management

• Clustering, and scaling to meet high volume events while maintaining availability.

• Data retention and data offsets, particularly as it relates to multi region designs.

• Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code

• Java, Python, or similar coding experience.

• Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar coding experience.

• Cloud Architecture

• APIs - both internal and external

• Domain and Event Driven Design

• Containerization - docker or Kubernetes

• Information Security

• Oauth, mTLS, authn and authz

• Network Security

• Ingress/Egress controls

• Observability - metrics, logging, and end-to-end tracing

• DevOps and branching models to support frequent changes (e.g., trunk)

• Modular and Reusable code

• Agile methodology

• Operations processes to support an active production environment (Developer Experience Platform)

• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.

• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.

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

• Expertise with several of the following:

• Effective Communication: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• Decision-Making & Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• Financial/Business Acumen: Strong Knowledge of financial and/or business concepts, tools and processes and how financial metrics are used to monitor and drive outcomes. Includes understanding of company accounts/metrics (ex: balance sheet, profit/loss, cash flow, budget & forecast).

• Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

• Agile Methodologies: Knowledge of concept and principles of agile methodology; ability to apply appropriate agile approaches in the processes of software development and delivery.

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

• 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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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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