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Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology/Chief Data Office 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 & Role

As a Lead, Service Management Associate in the Data Management & Governance team under Prudential Chief Data Office (CDO) organization, you will partner with consumers, product owners, internal service delivery units, engineers and delivery professionals to manage, improve and support the operation of the Prudential Enterprise Data Governance suite of technology products & services ensuring an appropriate level of service is delivered. You will work and enhance the support solutions that enable us to deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Provide operational support for enterprise data management and governance tools, including metadata catalog tools, MDM, data quality services, AI toolsets, AWS services, data pipelines, web applications, and reporting/dashboard implementations.


• Establish and monitor operational runbooks for enterprise data services, ensuring conformance to SLAs and handling failures or delays.


• Coordinate with infrastructure and corporate service teams on SLAs, communication, outage handling, and version upgrade management.


• Handle end-to-end support for tool/service outages, including severity level assessment, user communication, and engagement with the incident management team.


• Manage and progressively improve service levels provided by the enterprise data team to all Prudential groups.


• Implement automated processes for capturing system-level data to publish operational KPIs and create KPI visualization dashboards for leadership.


• Perform product/tool version management, coordinating with vendors and internal teams for version upgrades.


• Perform change control and configuration release management activities.


• Create and maintain documentation for service operations, CMDB data, and records management of systems and infrastructure details.


• Ensure secure management and systematic rotation of service account passwords in adherence to Info security policies.


• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to manage CI/CD pipelines for deployment.


• Create and maintain documentation for CI/CD processes, DevOps practices, and infrastructure configurations.


• Leverage  automated testing frameworks to ensure code quality and reliability.


• Prioritize, coordinate, and implement bug fixes and small enhancements for enterprise data tools.


• Ensure production deliverables are stable, scalable, and supportable, with well-defined handoff processes.


• Produce quality artifacts for runbooks and playbooks in support of enterprise data assets.


• Develop corporate platform standards and document solutions to support adoption.


• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, coach team members, and embed learning and innovation.


• Configure application alerts, work with related teams to document and automate failure actions.


• Perform incident and event management, manage communications for application failures, and find resolutions.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields


• 10-15 years of Experience with problem & incident management, ITSM, change advisory boards, SLAs, KPI Reporting


• Experience in establishing a mature service ops management for an enterprise-level data management and governance operations and integration with diverse corporate data sources on numerous platforms.


• Strong understanding of ITIL framework and ITSM best practices.


• Experience with ServiceNow modules including Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Asset Management, CMDB, and Service Catalog.


• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in CI/CD and DevOps engineering


•  Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, bitbucket, Github, SonarQube and Artifactory


• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and tools to continuously improve CI/CD and DevOps practices.


• Learn and understand tool specific enhancements, new features , bug fixes, release patches along its lifecycle and communicate them to user communities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of service orchestration and monitoring tools such as REST APIs, Workflows, Scheduling, Automation and Notification process


• Knowledge on troubleshooting of infrastructure fundamentals of Linux/Unix operating systems, database, network and TCP/IP, HTTPS, and SSL certifications.


• Knowledge on Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.


• Knowledge on enabling log based monitoring and alerting  using AWS CloudWatch, Splunk and Dynatrace


• Knowledge on any programming/scripting language like Nodejs, python and shell scripting would be added advantage.


• Experience in managing the CI/CD pipelines and service monitoring on AWS services. Knowledge on configuration of AWS toolsets like EC2, SQS/SNS, RDS, Glue, Step and Lambda.


• Knowledge on AWS Security IAM users, IAM roles and Azure AD


• Knowledge on dashboard/reporting tools like PowerBI, Tableau is added advantage.


• Knowledge of enterprise data governance/data management, & insurance/financial services business concepts that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.

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


• Retirement plans:
  
  
  • 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
  
  
  • Company-funded pension plan
  
  
  
  


• Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,000 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.


• Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.


• 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.

To find out more about our Total Reward 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.

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Note: 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 $115,800.00 to $172,300.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. 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. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.

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 www.prudential.com 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.

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