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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 youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

Prudential is on a technology modernization journey and APIs are at the heart of it. We are building a team to enable an API transformation across the enterprise. A new API gateway is being built enhancements to our API portal strategy are underway and the evangelization and education of developers for an APIcentric/design first environment has begun.

As a Lead Developer for the API COE team within the CTO you will work with a product owner to lead the critical technology strategy for API Management at Prudential. Specifically you will contribute handson to deliver on an API governance standardization and enterpriseusable API transformation program. You will partner with product owners tech leads and most importantly business application development teams to enable them on the Enterprise API platform. You will enable API best practices engineer automated pipelines for building APIs while creating reusable reliable consistent and scalable APIs for consumption across and outside of Prudential.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Define automate and execute on API transformation inclusive of security specification and operability standards

• Partner with your Tech Lead to execute on technical delivery

• Influence product roadmap based on an partnerships with the business and potential to simplify and reduce code duplication and improve the API strategy.

• Provide technical expertise as it relates to API management API platform infrastructure and API development.

• Work with application development teams to enable the API transformation; provide coaching on API best practices review use cases and assist with the migration to the new API platform

• Lead with an IaC and automation mindset promoting frequent small changes.

• Identify opportunities for simplification in API development and platform management processes.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Significant experience with API strategy; domaindriven and specificationbased design methodology developer portals REST best practices API standardization and governance

• Significant API Architecture knowledge including REST GraphQL GRPC Websockets and Async API capabilities

• Experience building and managing API/Developer Portals

• Experience with API management strategies and API gateway technologies (Kong apigee mulesoft layer7 etc.

• Experience in API design & tools; swaggerhub stoplight REST GraphQL GRPC asyncAPI

• Experience with working in technology transformation in an enterprise setting

• Deep cloud & infrastructure management knowledge & experience

• Strong technical experience in

  • Application Development Automation and Infrastructure as Code

    • Java Python NodeJs Go etc.

    • Angular ReactJs etc.

    • Terraform CloudFormation ansible or similar

  • Cloud Architecture resiliency and multi region design strategies.

  • Experience with EKS ECS or other containerization platforms

  • Authentication and Authorization Oauth2

  • Edge Security & WAF

  • Observability metrics logging and endtoend tracing

  • DevOps and branching models to support frequent changes (e.g. trunk)

  • Regression unit contract performance and stress testing

  • Production operations and incident response for a global highvolume platform

• 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 ongoing basis through selfinitiative and tackling challenges.

• Excellent problem solving communication and collaboration skills; enjoy learning new skills.

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent relevant experience

• 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.

• DecisionMaking & Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decisionmaking 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 variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• 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.

Youll 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 well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll be surprised by what this rocksolid organization has in store for you.

What we offer you:

• Market competitive base salaries with a yearly bonus potential at every level.

• Medical dental vision life insurance disability insurance Paid Time Off (PTO) and leave of absences such as parental and military leave.

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4.

• Companyfunded pension plan.

• Wellness Programs including up to $1600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.

• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting housing senior care finances pets legal matters education emotional and mental health and career development.

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85 of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period) after one year of service.

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program whereby an award if any depends on various factors including without limitation individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package visit Work Life Balance Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to parttime employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.