VP, Forward Deployed Data Engineering

Prudential Financial

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Newark, NJ Posted 3 days ago $239,700–$359,500 / year

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About Prudential Financial

Prudential Financial is a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager.

Prudential Financial currently has 35 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$204,100 across 32 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR

As Vice President of Forward Deployed Data Engineering at Prudential’s Chief Data & AI Office, you will lead technical teams embedded within business units to deliver production-grade data solutions that enhance decision-making and AI adoption. Your day-to-day involves leading end-to-end data initiatives from discovery through deployment, designing enterprise-grade batch and streaming pipelines, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable data architectures while maintaining tight feedback loops with the enterprise data platform team to shape future roadmaps. This role requires extensive experience in building large-scale data engineering solutions, proficiency in tools like Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, and cloud-native platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks, and a strong understanding of data governance and regulatory compliance within the financial services industry.

Skills

Airflow Azure Data Factory AWS Glue Kafka Kinesis Snowflake Databricks BigQuery S3 Redshift Denodo Python SQL CI/CD Ataccama Informatica

What you'll do

Lead end-to-end forward deployed data initiatives from discovery through production deployment.
Design and oversee delivery of enterprise-grade batch and streaming data pipelines.
Guide development of analytics-ready and AI-ready datasets for decision-making inputs.
Ensure solutions meet Prudential standards for security, privacy, compliance, and observability.
Establish reusable data architectures and accelerators to reduce duplication and accelerate deployments.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience in designing and operating enterprise-scale data engineering solutions
Proven success leading forward-deployed data initiatives embedded with business teams
Strong technical judgment and credibility for reviewing architectures and guiding tradeoffs
Ability to translate complex business needs into scalable data architectures and products
Experience working within strict regulatory environments, ensuring compliance and security
Track record of influencing enterprise data platform direction through deployment insights
Expertise in modern ETL/ELT pipelines, batch/streaming architectures, and cloud-native platforms

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