Senior Software Engineer - Production/ ASD | PGIM Ireland

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!

Who We Look For:

In PGIM Fixed Income, our technology group is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with exciting changes on the horizon under new senior leadership. We are looking for a well-rounded individual to be part of the Application Service Delivery team to manage the production environment. Our ideal candidate will be an eager learner interested in gaining valuable experience in managing complex investment management platforms and applications.  This will include front-office investment systems, business support applications and complex back-office data management platforms. The right candidate for this role will identify this challenge as a unique opportunity to help drive our global technology transformation, so if this sounds interesting, then PGIM could be the place for you.

What You Will Do:

• Provide production management for systems used by Front Office, Operations, and Client teams.
• Provide oversight for the PGIM Fixed Income technology batch environment.
• Ownership and accountability for the operation, monitoring, and integrity of the technology platform, including complex nightly data import processes from multiple external vendors.
• Available to be on-call for failure escalations including evenings and weekends on a rotation basis.
• Participation in the incident and problem management processes, being accountable for resolution, root cause analysis and technology/business reporting as well as communication.
• Responsible for the reliability and resiliency of production environment following established incident, change and problem management processes.
• Relationship management internally with the business and technology stakeholders.
• Navigate the broader technology organization, build relationships to manage the team’s agenda with our critical technology partners.
• Interface with external vendors and their technical support/development organizations ensuring focus to resolution of issues and strategic enhancements.

What You Will Need:

• 5+ years of experience working in a technology role preferably in software development and/or application support.
• A hunger for continuous learning, constantly looking for opportunities to improve upon the status quo.
• Strong communication skills and an enthusiastic team player.
• Strong research, analytical, investigation and troubleshooting skills.
• A tenacious sense of ownership and a desire to bring incidents to resolution quickly.
• Experience with writing database queries using SQL (MS SQL preferred)
• Familiarity in navigating and writing commands in the Linux operating system.
• Experience with using scheduling tools (Autosys preferred).
• Excellent documentation skills with ability to document processes, incident resolution steps etc.

What We Would Love to See:

• Experience working in Cloud technologies (AWS and/or Azure)
• Software development skills to perform code changes for bug fixes or for automation tasks.
• Self-motivated to operate independently and make necessary decisions within the global team.
• Ability to prioritize effectively within a dynamic global environment.

• Strong team player, results oriented with a flexible approach.

• Ability to present technology concisely to the business locally and globally.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with excellent relationship building skills.
• Comfortable operating in high pressure environments whilst managing multiple incidents.
• Ability to deal with and navigate difficult situations through strong tea