Vice President, Solution Architecture Engineer – Product Delivery & Experience

Prudential Financial • Portland, ME

2d

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 As a Vice President, Solution Architect Engineer in Group Insurance Technology you will partner with chief product owners, technical leads, release train engineers, and senior business and technology leadership to improve Group Insurance’s 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 Group Insurance’s Technology Modernization and Core Business Journeys in driving strategic growth, experience, and talent outcomes for Group Insurance Technology, concurrently with advancing overall Journey/Platform architecture for agility and sustainability; remove highly complex technical impediments and align the roadmap Drive solution architecture and design for Group Insurance’s Technology Modernization and Core Business roadmap across multiple Journeys/Platforms 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 journey/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

Requirements

• 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 on-going 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:
• Domain Driven architectures
• API development and management
• Cloud engineering and automation
• DevSecOps
• Applications development

Nice To Haves

• Prior architecture or development experience with Salesforce
• UI/ UX knowledge and skills
• Customer journey mapping
• Insurance industry experience is a must.
• Group Insurance experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end technical leadership for Group Insurance’s Technology Modernization and Core Business Journeys in driving strategic growth, experience, and talent outcomes for Group Insurance Technology, concurrently with advancing overall Journey/Platform architecture for agility and sustainability; remove highly complex technical impediments and align the roadmap
• Drive solution architecture and design for Group Insurance’s Technology Modernization and Core Business roadmap across multiple Journeys/Platforms 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 journey/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

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