Director, Data Engineer - PGIM Asset Management (Hybrid - Newark, NJ)

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

A GLOBAL FIRM WITH A DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE CULTURE

As the Global Asset Management business of Prudential, we’re always looking for ways to improve financial services. We’re passionate about making a meaningful impact - touching the lives of millions and solving financial challenges in an ever-changing world.

We also believe talent is key to achieving our vision and are intentional about building a culture on respect and collaboration. When you join PGIM, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading global asset managers!  

If you’re not afraid to think differently and challenge the status quo, come and be a part of a dedicated team that’s investing in your future by shaping tomorrow today.

At PGIM, You Can!

What you will do

Prudential’s 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.

What you can expect

• Build new and existing applications in preparation for newly launched business.
• Align with the business teams and rest of the PGIM teams in assessing business needs and transforming them into scalable applications.
• Build and maintain code to manage data received from heterogenous data formats including web-based sources, internal/external databases, flat files, heterogenous data formats (binary, ASCII).
• Build and maintain code to manage data received from heterogenous data formats including web-based sources, internal/external databases, flat files, heterogenous data formats (binary, ASCII).
• Help build new enterprise Datawarehouse and maintain the existing one.
• Design and support effective storage and retrieval of very large internal and external data set and be forward think about the convergence strategy with our AWS cloud implementation.
• Assess the impact of scaling up and scaling out and ensure sustained data management and data delivery performance.
• Build interfaces for supporting evolving and new applications and accommodating new data sources and types of data.

What you will bring

• 15+ years of experience in building out Data pipelines in Java/Scala
• 10 + years of experience working in AWS Cloud especially services like S3, EMR, Lambda, AWS Glue and Step Functions.
• Strong knowledge of Azure and Fabric environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Spark
• 10+ years of financial domain experience and prior knowledge of working Blackrock Aladdin and their interface files.
• Ability to lead team of developers.
• Exposed to working in an Agile environment with Scrum Master/Product owner and ability to deliver.
• Strong Experience with data lake/data marts/data warehouse
• Ability to communicate the status and challenges and align with the team
• Demonstrating the ability to learn new skills and work as a team

What will set you apart?

• Experience working in Hadoop or other Big data platforms
• Exposure to deploying code through pipeline
• Good exposure to Containers like ECS or Docker
• Direct experience supporting multiple business units for foundational data work and sound understanding of capital markets within Fixed Income
• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence, SAFe development methodology & DevOps
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think quickly and offer alternatives both independently and within teams.
• Proven ability to work quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Bachelor's degree Computer Science or a related field.

*PGIM welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

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 $150,000 to $190,000. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. 

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