Vice President, Data & AI Platforms


Job Location:

Newark, DE - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 and Operations 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.

Your Team & Role

As you will play a critical enterprise leadership role within Global Technology. You will own the strategy governance and delivery of Prudentials enterprise data and AI platforms including the central platform AI/ML platform data platforms data engineering enterprise data management modeling analytics operations and supporting tooling and shared services.

This role is accountable for platform vision roadmap investment alignment and operational excellenceensuring platforms scale securely reliably costeffectively and consistently across the enterprise. You will oversee ML operations (MLOps) data operations engineering operations FinOps and platform site reliability engineering (SRE) as core enterprise capabilities.

In close partnership with the CTO you will lead the enterprise data and AI platform organization as responsibilities evolve with the operating model. You will define core capabilities shared frameworks and operational standards that enable reuse interoperability reliability and secure selfservice across business units.

This role requires deep collaboration with business functions enterprise architecture infrastructure security and application technology teams. We are seeking a leader who combines strong technical depth with enterprise product and operational leadershipsomeone who can translate strategy into scalable platforms align diverse stakeholders and build highperforming engineering organizations.

What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

  • Define and own the enterprise vision strategy and roadmap for data AI/ML and central platforms aligned to Prudentials business data AI and technology strategies.

  • Lead enterprise platform engineering including the central platform AI/ML platform and data platforms encompassing architecture engineering and modernization efforts.

  • Centrally manage core data and AI platforms and shared services driving consistency reuse scalability operational maturity and adoption across business units and functions.

  • Oversee ML Operations (MLOps) to ensure reliable model development deployment monitoring and lifecycle management at enterprise scale.

  • Establish and lead data operations and engineering operations including platform support models runtime stability oncall practices and continuous improvement of delivery and operational metrics.

  • Own platform SRE capabilities ensuring resilience availability performance incident management and platform observability across data and AI platforms.

  • Lead FinOps practices for data and AI platforms including cloud cost visibility optimization forecasting and investment alignment in partnership with finance and infrastructure teams.

  • Oversee enterprise data and AI applications (e.g. Enterprise Data Platform) partnering closely with Division Technology Leaders to ensure alignment value realization and responsible platform usage.

  • Manage enterprise data and AI tooling and services including marketplace capabilities data catalog ModelOps tooling and CDO operational platforms.

  • Establish and govern enterprise standards policies and controls for data and AI platforms services and tooling ensuring alignment with information security risk and compliance requirements.

  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture to define and evolve reference architectures solution patterns and shared frameworks for data and AI platforms.

  • Define and enable selfservice platform capabilities that expand access to approved data and AI features while maintaining governance reliability and controls.

  • Liaise with platform and tooling vendors to evaluate procure and manage enterprise capabilities features and services.

  • Lead and inspire global engineering and product teams partnering closely with CIO and CTO organizations on DevOps pipelines APIs platform reliability and operational excellence.

  • Foster a culture of inclusion curiosity accountability and continuous learning.

  • Communicate clearly and effectively with executive stakeholders product partners and delivery teams.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience (including military experience).

  • Progressive leadership experience across data platforms AI/ML platforms central platforms and enterprise engineering organizations delivering solutions at global scale.

  • Deep experience building and operating MLOps data operations platform SRE engineering operations and FinOps capabilities in complex enterprise environments.

  • Proven ability to define platform strategy operating models and investment priorities including enterprise tooling shared services and cloudbased data and AI infrastructure.

  • Experience managing platforms and strategic capabilities in federated environments while driving enterprisewide adoption and standardization.

  • Strong experience overseeing enterprise data and AI tooling platforms and vendorprovided solutions.

  • Expertise in agile delivery modern engineering practices DevOps reliability engineering and TestDriven Development (TDD).

  • Proven ability to build develop and lead highperforming global product and engineering teams.

  • Ability to lead through influence in highly matrixed environments across business application infrastructure and security teams.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience working in global and multilingual environments preferred.

  • Commitment to inclusive leadership collaboration transparency and trust.

  • Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to align platform operational and investment decisions to enterprise outcomes.

  • Curiosity and adaptability to continuously learn and apply new skills technologies and approaches.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in financial services or insurance is a plus but not required.

  • Familiarity with enterprise data strategy AI enablement or digital transformation programs.

  • Understanding of lean delivery and modern operating models.

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%).

  • Company-funded 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 part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Prudential Financial Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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.

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Job Classification:Technology - Agile Delivery & ProductAre you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation speed agility scalability and efficiency The Global Technology and Operations team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built i...