Vice President, Product Owner - Developer Experience (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 Developer Experience team within the CTO organization, you will spearhead the strategy to enhance developer velocity from onboarding to code delivery. You will collaborate with other product owners, tech leads, engineers, and delivery professionals to assess developer processes and cultivate habits that foster increased automation, minimize undifferentiated heavy lifting, and enable secure self-service. Your responsibilities will include identifying and partnering on critical business initiatives. You will manage skilled tech leads to ensure the delivery and successful adoption of your products, as evidenced by the development teams' overall improvement in velocity for modern initiatives. Financially accountable for the end-to-end product line, you will be empowered to efficiently run and scale your organization. Success in this role will be gauged by the extent to which projects integrate the developer tools using automation and achieve quantifiable business results. With your expertise in application development, infrastructure, and governance, you will bring a wide range of technical and leadership skills to your team, promoting a culture of 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 Developer Portal

  • Reusable Code Generation Patterns (Inclusive of UI, App, and Infrastructure layers)

  • Developer Onboarding and Process Automation

  • Developer Tooling  

• Provide deep technical expertise driving developer portal content including but not limited to UI, 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

• Streamline the number of developer portals across the company to enhance the ease at which developers engage with different processes and teams

• Promote 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 alignment 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

    • Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code

    • Experience in programming languages, libraries and frameworks:

      • Python, Java, JavaScript, React, Springboot, 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 or kubernetes

    • Information Security – Oauth, mTLS, authn and 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.

• 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.