Vice President, Chief Product Owner - Enterprise Data Engineering

Prudential Financial

  • Newark, NJ
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 14 days ago
Job Classification: Technology - Agile, Delivery, & ProductAre 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 TeamAs a Vice President, Chief Product Owner – Enterprise Data Engineering you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to build, deliver, and continuously improve Prudential’s data engineering capability. You will be a thought leader, working to define the strategy and roadmap for Prudential’s data and modeling ecosystem. This will require close collaboration with business functions, infrastructure (CTO) and technology teams (CIO), and architecture. We’re looking for an inspirational technical leader to solve sophisticated business problems, enable the scale and rapid deployment of AI solutions, and ultimately delight our customers!As a technical expert in public cloud deployments of data solutions, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and team building skills. Agile expertise and inclusive leadership philosophy are critical success factors of the role, too.Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
  • Define the vision, success criteria, and high-level roadmap for the products in your portfolio.
  • Partner with Prudential’s architecture team to implement and refine reference architecture and solution architecture patterns for the products in your portfolio.
  • Lead the data engineering team to deliver the products in your portfolio, working in close connection with stakeholders and partners in CIO and CTO functions.
  • Establish and lead the development of an enterprise-wide framework for data engineering practices.
  • Creates and oversee the implementation of guidelines, best practices, and standards for data engineering projects.
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to data engineering teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
  • Work with global data and AI teams and be a leader in modernization programs.
  • Nurture and help define a culture of inclusion, intense curiosity, teamwork, and continuous learning.
  • Understand industry trends and innovation potential to anticipate customer needs or business opportunities.
  • Communicate clearly and frequently with stakeholder groups.
  • As a member of the Chief Data Office Senior Leadership Team, contribute meaningfully to Prudential’s data and AI capability, globally.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
  • Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering, equivalent experience in related fields, or equivalent military experience.
  • Progressive experience in leading solution architecture, software development, and data engineering teams to deliver global scale
  • Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
  • Ability to drive global scale of CI/CD and DevOps tools and techniques, API and microservice-based architecture patterns.
  • Demonstrated experience building and developing high performing technology product teams.
  • Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills, experience working in multilingual environments preferred.
  • Belief in a non-hierarchal structure of collaboration, transparency and trust.
  • Expert 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.
You’ll Love Working Here Because You CanJoin 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.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 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 for more information about doing business with Prudential.PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES:
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