Vice President, Product Owner - Cloud (Information Technology)

Job Classification:

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

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 the Vice President and Product Owner for the global cloud team, you will lead the company's cloud strategy and execute cloud migration, in partnership with the business. You will work with business technology leaders, product owners, tech leads, engineers, and delivery professionals to optimize business application workloads, promote automation, reduce manual tasks, and support secure self-service. You will manage tech leads to ensure successful deployment and adoption of the cloud environment, improving development teams' velocity for modern projects. Responsible for the financial performance of the product line, you will efficiently run and scale your organization. Your success will be measured by how well business teams and developers align with cloud usage patterns and effectively leverage the cloud for optimal architecture and business outcomes. With your expertise in application development, infrastructure, and governance, you will contribute technical and leadership skills, fostering continuous learning and improvement.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day:

• Create and maintain a global product roadmap based on an understanding of the business and the strategic potential of the capabilities you own including:
• Global Cloud Foundation (AWS and Azure)
• Fully automated foundation and control structure
• Reusable cloud migration patterns
• Enable the organization to easily migrate to the cloud in tiers of complexity (i.e. server backed, serverless, functions etc.)
• Developer Onboarding and Process Automation
• Operate a ‘no-ticket' ecosystem, building developer needs into every design while achieving immutability and security
• Foster a serverless first mindset, and advocate for designing operations at higher levels in the stack to maintain a strong focus on business delivery and outcomes
• Provide deep technical expertise driving cloud service adoption including but not limited to cloud application and Infrastructure development patterns.
• Establish a tagging and metrics driven model to identify versioned patterns deployed in production, promoting rehydration and validating architectural alignment
  Integrate with an inner-source developer ecosystem, promoting a collaborative environment where developers are empowered to contribute and build upon solutions
• Lead with an application development and automation mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.
• Partner consistently with the business to ensure strategic cloud migration paths for core capabilities, and initiatives, including the potential for peer coding opportunities
• Ensure alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories in line with your roadmap and vision.
• Communicate frequently with business stakeholders to ensure engagement and buy-in on decisions and proposed solutions. Establish a strong feedback loop.
• Champion adoption of your product line, creating a user friendly and sustainable adoption model.
• Lead sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Master and organizational technology teams.
• Work with Tech lead(s) to build modular & reusable solutions.
• Manage the end-to-end financials of the product line.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring:

• Deep Application Development, Engineering, Analytics, or similar experience
• Strong technical experience in
• AWS and Azure native services
• Serverless Architecture
• Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience in programming languages, libraries and frameworks:
• Python, Java, JavaScript, React, Spring Boot, Node.js, or similar
• IAC: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
• Microservice front-end
• Domain-driven design
• Cloud Architecture
• APIs - both internal and external
• Event Driven Design
• Resiliency, including multi region design strategies
• Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes
• Information Security – OAuth, mTLS, AuthN/AuthZ
• Observability – metrics, logging, and end-to-end tracing
• Modular and reusable code
• Agile methodology
• Operations processes to support an active production environment.
• Overall operations incident process flow and driving towards faster Incident resolution.
• Understanding of observability and how signals and automation technologies can drive incident response to predict and avoid outages before they occur.
  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.  

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.

Empathetic Leadership: Ability to prioritize team members' well-being, guide and develop emerging leaders, and create pathways for continuous growth by recognizing individual talents and fostering an inclusive and supportive environment.

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 diverse group of team members 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 $230,100.00 to $311,300.00. 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. 

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave. 

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%). 

• Company-funded pension plan. 

• Wellness Programs 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.  

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.  

• 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. 

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. To find out more about our Total Rewards 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.