Vice President, Solution Architecture Engineer - Retirement Strategies Individual Product Platform

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 & Role

As a Vice President, Solution Architecture Engineer in Retirement Strategies you will partner with chief product owners, technical leads, release train engineers, and senior business and technology leadership to improve Retirement Strategies' core technologies and business capabilities. You will be a hands-on leader in our efforts to become a more modern, cloud-based, API and domain-driven architecture firm that brings these technology capabilities to solve real-world business problems in a business that's poised for growth based on technology competitiveness. You will also be the key leader who is responsible for mitigating a legacy technology landscape to these new systems. As a technical expert, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership style and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• End-to-end technical leadership for Retirement Strategies Individual Product Platform in driving strategic growth, experience, and talent outcomes concurrently with advancing overall architecture for agility and sustainability; remove highly complex technical impediments and align the roadmap

• Drive team empowerment, commitment and engagement leveraging lean-agile principles to increase team capabilities, autonomy, and velocity in the continuous delivery of in-market value

• Drive solution architecture and design for Retirement Strategies Individual Product Platform roadmap across multiple agile release trains to achieve a complete, flexible, and sustainable capabilities in alignment with architectural principles and patterns

• Collaborate with chief product owners, release train engineer and enterprise architecture to develop platform vision and roadmap. Define and prioritize enablers that explore alternatives and build the architectural runway that anticipates future needs and enables innovation, flexibility, and speed

• Bring an expert understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide technical guidance and leadership to team members and role-model our continuous learning culture by embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day

• Work on critical applications, maintain a broad knowledge of innovative principles and theory

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

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

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

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

• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

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

• Excellent executive presence with an ability to translate and communicate sophisticated technical solutions in understandable terms to a broad range of audiences

• Excellent problem solving and collaboration skills

• Significant experience and/or deep expertise with the following:

o Domain Driven architectures

o API development and management

o Cloud engineering and automation

o DevSecOps

o Applications development

• Preferred qualifications:

o Prior architecture or development experience with Salesforce

o UI/ UX knowledge and skills

o Customer journey mapping

o 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

• 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.

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 $195,100.00 to $263,900.00. 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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