Job Description

Prudentials Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to 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 the Global Technology organization at Prudential, youll unlock a challenging and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

The Global Technology Architecture organization at Prudential is seeking a Vice President, Architecture Planning. Reporting into the Chief Architect, this highly visible role will join a leadership team responsible for implementing standards, ensuring reusability of architecture that can be leveraged across IT and the businesses, and supporting consistency to drive better business outcomes. The team is looking for a unique combination of skills: strong technical and business acumen, superior coordination and prioritization/organization skills and ability to influence cross-functional collaboration.

The successful candidate will be accountable for all facets of Architecture Planning including:

Provides the technical leadership to ensure and enable the successful design and delivery of enterprise solutions that are scalable, adaptable, and aligned with client business needs

Design and deploy a technical debt ledger process, in partnership with the GT COO organization , which captures and evaluates architecture edge cases that will not initially comply with published, standard patterns or reference architectures

Develop and lead a robust process to update and publish a quarterly Technology Radar, in partnership with Emerging Technology

Serve as the Senior Scrum Master for the Chief Architects 2x weekly standup meetings

Drive administration and operationalization of the Application Portfolio Management process

Serve as single point of contact for the Architecture team, to the Architecture Governance function within the COO organization

Drive administration and operationalization of the publishing and regular updating of architecture principles, patterns, reference architecture, etc. out to the enterprise

Serve single point of contact to the GT COO organization, to help facilitate development and prioritization of upskilling training that aligns with patterns and reference architectures as they are developed and published

Plan and manage the execution of several Hackathons throughout the year, which are intended to help upskill employees, focusing on recently published principles, standards and reference architectures

Skills/Qualifications:

Bachelors degree required

Strong project management skills and organizational skills

Ability to think strategically and synthesize complex information

Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills

Exceptional verbal, written communication and presentation

Ability to communicate at all levels across the organization, including with senior leaders

Demonstrated success working in a matrix organization

Self-starter with intellectual curiosity

A collaborative mindset and a desire to take ownership of challenging projects

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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.

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