Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Center for Enablement

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

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About The Position

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 Prudential is on a technology modernization journey and APIs are at the heart of it. We are building a team to enable an API transformation across the enterprise. A new API gateway is being built, enhancements to our API portal strategy are underway, and the evangelization and education of developers for an API-centric/design first environment has begun. As a Lead Developer for the API COE team within the CTO, you will work with a product owner to lead the critical technology strategy for API Management at Prudential. Specifically, you will contribute hands-on to deliver on an API governance, standardization, and enterprise-usable API transformation program. You will partner with product owners, tech leads, and, most importantly, business application development teams to enable them on the Enterprise API platform. You will enable API best practices, engineer automated pipelines for building APIs while creating reusable, reliable, consistent, and scalable APIs for consumption across and outside of Prudential.

Requirements

• Significant experience with API strategy; domain-driven and specification-based design methodology, developer portals, REST best practices, API standardization and governance
• Significant API Architecture knowledge including REST, GraphQL, GRPC, Websockets, and Async API capabilities
• Experience building and managing API/Developer Portals
• Experience with API management strategies and API gateway technologies (Kong, apigee, mulesoft, layer7, etc.)
• Experience in API design & tools; swaggerhub, stoplight, REST, GraphQL, GRPC, asyncAPI
• Experience with working in technology transformation in an enterprise setting
• Deep cloud & infrastructure management knowledge & experience
• Strong technical experience in Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code
• Java, Python, NodeJs, Go, etc.
• Angular, ReactJs, etc.
• Terraform, CloudFormation, ansible, or similar
• Cloud Architecture, resiliency, and multi region design strategies.
• Experience with EKS, ECS, or other containerization platforms
• Authentication and Authorization – Oauth2
• Edge Security & WAF
• Observability – metrics, logging, and end-to-end tracing
• DevOps and branching models to support frequent changes (e.g., trunk)
• Regression, unit, contract, performance, and stress testing
• Production operations and incident response for a global high-volume 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.
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define, automate, and execute on API transformation inclusive of security, specification, and operability standards
• Partner with your Tech Lead to execute on technical delivery
• Influence product roadmap based on an partnerships with the business and potential to simplify and reduce code duplication and improve the API strategy.
• Provide technical expertise as it relates to API management, API platform infrastructure, and API development.
• Work with application development teams to enable the API transformation; provide coaching on API best practices, review use cases, and assist with the migration to the new API platform
• Lead with an IaC and automation mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.
• Identify opportunities for simplification in API development and platform management processes.

Benefits

• 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.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs 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.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level