Director, Data Engineer

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 is a purpose-driven organization that 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 Director, Data Engineer, you will partner with talented architects, infrastructure engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to improve many different products and services. You will analyze, design, develop, test, and perform ongoing maintenance to build high-quality data pipelines that drive platform delivery. You will implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to deep technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude, and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day:

1. Build and optimize data pipelines, logic and storage systems with the latest coding practices and industry standards and modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove complex technical impediments.
2. Develop high quality, well-documented, and efficient code adhering to all applicable Prudential standards.
3. Conduct complex data analysis and report on results, prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling, combine raw information from different sources.
4. Collaborate with data analysts, scientists, and architects on data projects to enhance data acquisition, transformation, organization processes, data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
5. Write unit, integration tests, and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems.
6. Bring a deep understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, give technical direction to team members, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day.
7. Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts, products, or technologies.
8. Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, R, SQL, Java, Scala, Pyspark/Apache Spark, Shell scripting.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring:

1. Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields.
2. Experience in working with DevOps automation tools & practices; Knowledge of full software development life cycle (SDLC).
3. Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
4. Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
5. Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
6. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills; enjoy learning new skills!
7. Significant experience and/or deep expertise with several of the following:
8. Programming Language: Python, R, SQL, Java, Scala, Pyspark/Apache Spark, Shell scripting.
9. Data Ingestion, Integration & Transformation: Moving data from multiple sources, formats, and volumes to analytics platforms through various tools. Preparing data for further analysis; transforming and mapping raw data to generate insights and wrangling data through tools.
10. Database Management System: Storing, organizing, managing, and delivering data using relational DBs, NoSQL DBs, Graph DBs, and data warehouse technologies including AWS Redshift and Snowflake.
11. Database tools: Data architecture to store, organize, and manage data. Experience with SQL and NoSQL based databases for storage and processing of structured, semi-structured & unstructured data.

Real-Time Analytics: Spark, Kinesis Data Streams

Data Buffering: Kinesis, Kafka

Workflow Orchestration: Airflow, AppFlow, Autosys, Cloudwatch, Splunk

Data Visualization: Tableau, Power BI, MS Excel

1. Data Lakes & Warehousing: Building Data Models, Data Lakes, and Data Warehousing.
2. Data Protection and Security: Knowledge of data protection, security principles, and services; data loss prevention, role-based access controls, data encryption, data access capture, and core security services.
3. Common Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Frameworks: Ansible, CloudFormation.
4. Cloud Computing: Knowledge of fundamentals of AWS architectural principles and services; Strong ability on cloud formation and to write code; Knowledge of AWS core services.
5. Testing/Quality: Unit, interface, and end-user testing concepts and tooling inclusive of non-functional requirements (performance, usability, reliability, security/vulnerability scanning, etc.) including how testing integrated into Dev Ops; accessibility awareness.
6. Preferred qualifications:
7. Serverless data pipeline development using AWS Glue, Lambda, and Step functions.

What we offer you:

1. Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
2. Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
3. Retirement plans:
4. 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
5. Company-funded pension plan.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
9. 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.

To find out more about our Total Reward package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

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.

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 $173,500.00 to $234,700.00. 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.

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.

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