Vice President, Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Job Classification:

Technology - Data Analytics & Management

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.

As a VP, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will partner with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and other professionals to implement machine learning models that will deliver stability, producibility, scalability, and integration with other products and services. 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 in a typical day:

• Operationalize ML software models and components that solve real-world business problems, while working in collaboration with the Product and Data Science teams; remove complex technical impediments and align the roadmap.
• Solve complex problems by writing and testing application code, developing and validating ML models, and automating tests and deployment.
• Leverage cloud-based architectures and technologies to deliver optimized ML models at scale.
• Construct optimized data pipelines to feed ML models.
• Leverage continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices, including test automation and monitoring, to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code.
• Bring an expert understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide technical guidance and leadership to team members, and role-model our continuous learning culture.
• Work on critical applications, maintaining a broad knowledge of innovative principles and theory.
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, R, SQL, Java, or Scala.

The Skills and expertise you bring:

• 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 ongoing basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Significant experience and/or deep expertise with several of the following:

• Software Engineering & System Design: Requirement analysis, coding, testing, version control, microservices architecture, building RestFul APIs, distributed computing, architecture patterns, general understanding of computer architecture, object-oriented programming concepts.
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Good understanding of ML algorithms like linear regression, logistic regression, supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, AI Frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, neural networks, NLP, computer vision, and predictive analytics.
• Model Performance Management: model monitoring, model validation, bias detection, explainability, performance, drift, outliers, etc.
• Model Deployment: Thorough understanding of MDLC (Model Development Life Cycle), CI/CD/CT pipelines (using tools like Jenkins, CloudBees, Harness), A/B testing, pipeline frameworks like MLFlow, AWS SageMaker pipeline, model and data versioning.
• Data Integration, Transformation & Processing: Transforming and mapping raw data to generate insights. Data wrangling through various tools. Understanding big data ecosystems, relational, NoSQL and graph databases, unstructured and semi-structured data. Data processing on distributed systems with Spark/PySpark.
• Statistics and Computing: Strong knowledge of linear algebra, probability and statistics, multivariate calculus, distributions like Poisson, Normal, Binomial, etc.
• Programming Languages: Python, R, SQL, Java, or Scala.

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.

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 $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 a standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and retirement.