Prudential

PGIM Real Estate | Senior Data Engineer

Posted on: 12 Mar 2021

Atlanta, GA

Job Description

PGIM is the diversified asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). With $1.4 trillion in assets under management, and 38 offices spanning 16 countries, PGIM is among the worlds top-10 largest asset managers. Comprised of seven self-governing asset management divisions, each PGIM business offers a distinct workplace culture that aligns with the firms ultimate objective: to provide premier service to our clients while fostering an inclusive workplace culture that is rooted in trust, respect and equality.

Our Business:

As one of the largest real estate managers in the world with more than $180 billion in gross assets under management and administration, PGIM Real Estate strives to deliver exceptional outcomes for investors and borrowers through a range of real estate equity and debt solutions across the risk-return spectrum. Our scope of insights, rigorous risk management and seamless execution are backed by a 50-year legacy of investing in commercial real estate, a 140-year history of real estate financing and the deep local expertise of professionals in 32 cities globally.

Through our investment, financing, asset management and talent management approach, we engage in practices that ignite positive environmental and social impact, while pursuing activities that strengthen communities around the world. When you join our team, youll find yourself inspired by an inclusive company culture that believes that diversity of all kinds allows us to develop better and more innovative solutions for our clients.

Our Role:
PGIM Real Estate is seeking a Senior Data Engineer. This is a transformational position that will play a critical role in the evolution and growth of PGIM Real Estates business and is directly aligned to the firms commitment to proactively and innovatively meet challenges and seize opportunities by effectively leveraging data, analytics, and technology.

The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for managing the tools and system architecture for the PGIM Real Estate Data Lake. This individual will be responsible for ingesting, transforming, and validating data into the data lake. The Senior Data Engineer will work closely with the Head of Data Governance and Data Stewards to resolve data quality issues and encode data quality rules. This individual will be responsible for defining the architecture for data layers and plan for data acquisition, archives, and databases. The Senior Data Engineer will evaluate and implement tools needed for data governance, architecture, and quality.

We are a global business with 30+ offices globally. Ideally, this position would be based in Atlanta, GA, but we are flexible to consider other locations where we have offices as well as a remote working arrangement for the right candidate.

Your Impact:

The successful candidate will bring a structured and organized approach, deep technical skills, and a strategic mindset towards driving an organizations data journey. They will require the credibility, gravitas, and influencing skills needed to effectively communicate the opportunities for data and analytics across the business while bringing the necessary technical depth to ensure that those opportunities are realized. Responsibilities of the role include the following:

* Perform as the data engineering lead for the PGIM Real Estate Data Lake.
* Develop understanding of current state data architecture and target state data architecture with corresponding strategy and roadmap.
* Work closely with business units to define the technical strategy for data products and applications (e.g. data sources, data repositories, data tools).
* Collect, blend, and transform data using ETL tools, data management system tools, and code development (e.g. SQL, Python).
* Perform aggregations on data across various warehousing models for data analytics and reporting purposes.
* Interact with data analytics and reporting teams to understand how data needs to be structured for consumption.
* Configure and maintains MDM tools and system processes to ensure proper function of MDM mechanisms.
* Define master data quality validation criteria and implements automatic error detection schemes.
* Assist the business process experts in defining unicity rules and validating quality of master records.
* Develop data quality dashboard to monitor data quality.
* Support domain owners and data stewards to analyze quality issue root causes and remediation efforts.
* Monitor cross-BU data provisioning to ensure provisioning is done via official sources.
* Support selection and implementation of tools for governance, architecture, and quality with input from Global Technology.

Your Required Skills:

* Bachelors degree required.
* Minimum of 5 years total work experience in a data engineering role on a Big Data Platform; experience within institutional asset management and/or real estate a plus.
* Extensive hands on experience in modern data lake architecture, database development, and data modeling.
* Strong implementation skills and working knowledge of data structures, algorithms and big data tools (Spark, Hadoop, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Hive).
* Prior experience using data governance technology tools.
* Experience working in an agile environment embracing collaboration within and across teams.
* Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence business stakeholders.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Detail oriented; Analytical with strong problem-solving abilities.
* Professional and energetic self-starter. Comfortable with ambiguity, able to effectively take the conceptual to the pragmatic.

Our Culture:

Prudential Financial, Inc. is focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We dont just accept differencewe celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to build their career path by owning their development, their career and their future. We encourage employees to hone their skills and explore continued opportunities within Prudential.

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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 www.prudential.com 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 staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES:
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, which may include an assessment, please call (800) 433-8960, prompt 4 or email accommodation.h&w@prudential.com.

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Prudential

Newark, NJ

Prudential Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services. It operates through PGIM, U.S. Workplace Solutions, U.S. Individual Solutions, and International Insurance divisions. The PGIM division offers an array of asset management and advisory services related to public and private fixed income, public equity and real estate, commercial mortgage origination and servicing, and mutual funds and other retail services to institutional, private, and sub-advisory clients, as well as to insurance company separate accounts, government sponsored entities, and the general account.

The U.S. Workplace Solutions division provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; and group life, long-term and short-term group disability, and group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States, primarily to institutional clients for use in connection with employee plans and affinity groups.The U.S. Individual Solutions division develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products, principally to the mass affluent and affluent markets; and individual variable, term, and universal life insurance products to the mass middle, mass affluent, and affluent markets in the United States.

The International Insurance division develops and distributes individual life insurance, retirement, and related products to the mass affluent and affluent markets in Japan, Korea, and other foreign countries, as well as middle income and mass affluent markets. The company offers its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. Prudential Financial, Inc. was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.