Vice President, Information Systems - Shared Services

Company: Prudential Financial, Inc.
Location: Newark
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

Job Classification:Technology - Agile, Delivery, & ProductPrudential'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. 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, you'll unlock a challenging and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.Reporting directly to the Managing Director/CIO of Asset Management-Financial Management-Corporate Technology (AMFMCT), the VP, Information Systems - Shared Services will be responsible for leading the design of innovative global architectures and solutions. This role will focus on streamlining, managing, and delivering common technology services and infrastructure to the Finance, Actuarial, Chief Investment Office, Risk Management, PGIM Shared Services, and Corporate Functions tech teams to enable them to deliver software solutions to customers in a cost optimized fashion. This leader will also execute on infrastructure and application modernization, as well as agile transformation and dev ops enablement.Key Responsibilities Include:--- Partner with senior technology leaders to intake, manage, and execute on enterprise technical priorities across Asset Management-Financial Management-Corporate Technology (AMFMCT) and Global Technology.--- Manage a technology budget of $30M - $50M, software licenses and contracts, and master service agreements for contracted offshore positions.--- Support the AMFMCT verticals to envision, document, build out, run, and monitor cloud architecture and infrastructure for their cloud projects.--- Lead, develop, and grow diverse teams by providing career growth and development opportunities while contributing to an innovative and inclusive culture.--- Lead the agile services team (operations) that has oversight and responsibility of the governance and application controls, enterprise projects, and vulnerability management systems.--- Oversee the integration services and subledger team in operating and supporting a large integration hub that processes transactions across multiple applications.--- Implement Global Technology's newly developed workforce strategy and continue to build a future-ready workforce through leading by example in challenging the status quo and advocating for change.Skills/Qualifications:--- Minimum of 15 years of information systems management experience with demonstrated success as an Information Technology leader preferably in financial services or consulting industries.--- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.--- Deep understanding of managing infrastructure, databases, platforms, applications, and operations.--- Strong understanding of AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure provisioning, services, security, and cost management in public cloud and hybrid environments. Hands on experience is desired.--- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional and/or DevOps Engineer certifications preferred.--- Significant experience in Agile infrastructure environments, and deployment of agile thinking and strategies/technologies to drive efficient working practices and DevOps. Can appropriately prioritize and juggle competing deliverables.--- Fosters an environment focused on teamwork, high-performance, accountability, innovation and growth; not afraid to 'roll up the sleeves' and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn - pushes the team to do the same. Proven experience managing Agile teams.--- Objective, diplomatic team player with excellent collaboration, networking, and influencing skills, as well as credibility and commitment to building trust and developing relationships across technology functions and business units.--- Ability to apply knowledge of Company objectives, key business drivers and financial acumen to evaluate performance and contribute to efficiencies and strategic decision-making.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 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 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 email .Please note that the above email is solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation. If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email to request assistance.

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