Vice President – Tech Lead

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 Vice President, Tech Lead for the Global Developer Experience team within the CTO, you will work with a product owner to lead the critical technology strategy for the Developer Experience platform. Specifically, you will lead a team of engineers, while contributing with hands-on engineering to deliver reusable application and infrastructure code. You will partner with other product owners, tech leads, and most importantly application development teams to understand their code, and usage patterns and identify high potential use cases to reduce code duplication and undifferentiated heavy lifting. Once codified and released via self-service, you will champion adoption and enable an inner source ecosystem, encouraging developers to contribute and fuel the platform. Your success is determined by the consumption of your product, and the overall improvement to developer velocity. 

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

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

• Heavily influence product roadmap based on an understanding of the business and potential to simplify and reduce code duplication and improve overall developer velocity.

• Provide technical expertise as it relates to both application development and infrastructure code reusability.

• Manage a team of engineers to curate great code from application development teams, as well as contribute hands-on to develop additional modular templates for widespread consumption. 

• Integrate best practice (12 factor app) into all codified solutions.

  • Contributions can range from UI, application or infrastructure tier based on expertise.

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

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

• Work across CTO with key product owners and tech leads to establish and create consistency in the way the group enables self service capabilities to developers.

• Maintain a consistent feedback loop with application development teams to champion adoption and continued inner source contributions to the developer experience platform.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring  

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

  • Strong technical experience in

    • Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code

      • Java, Python, or similar coding experience.

      • Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar coding experience.

    • Cloud Architecture

    • APIs, and Events

    • Domain Driven Design

    • Resiliency, including multi region design strategies.

    • 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.  

• 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.

• 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:

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.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.