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.

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 Vice President, Tech Lead 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 lead two teams of engineers, while contributing with hands-on engineering, to deliver on an API governance, standardization, and enterprise-usable API transformation program. You will also lead the implementation, management, and enhancements of the Prudential Developer Portal. 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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Define, automate, and execute on API transformation inclusive of security, specification, and operability standards

• 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 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

• Manage a team of engineers to build and manage a robust API management platform, API portal, and API center of enablement - as well as contribute hands-on in the development, testing, and operations of the API ecosystem.

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

• Identify opportunities for simplification in API development and platform management processes.

• 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 and consistent API design.

• Maintain a consistent feedback loop with application development teams to champion adoption and continued improvements to the enterprise API strategy.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring  

• 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 leading 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.

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 $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.