VP, Japan Platforms (Information Technology)

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

Prudential is a dynamic and innovative financial services company dedicated to creating solutions that deliver outcomes for a society that's living longer, younger, and faster. Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Retirement and Insurance (GRI) Technology 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 with a company on a mission to empower individuals and businesses with cutting-edge financial solutions.

The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership and vision across the technical spectrum to bring innovative solutions that create shareholder value and enable our business growth strategies. He or she will lead our Japan Platforms team.

Your Team & Key stakeholders

As the Vice President of Japan Platforms reporting into the Chief Technology and Information Officer for GRI, you will advance the strategies of our Japan businesses around simplification and modernization of technology stacks by leveraging architectural principles and patterns developed by Enterprise Architecture. You will deploy solutions that are consumable and available across the enterprise and across countries. As a seasoned technology leader with international experience you will provide architecture consulting on large, business critical programs and/or initiatives that have high business visibility, impact and/or risk and complexity. You will be expected to bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, and an inclusive leadership attitude to all that you do.  Key stakeholders include the US CTO and CDO teams to ensure the right platforms and capabilities are created and various Technology leaders in Tokyo.  International travel will be required. 

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Evangelize and influence technological change and adoption at an international executive level.

• Educate and provide thought leadership for a technology strategy and vision that aligns with business strategy and vision.

• Determines organization-wide information needs and develops overall strategy to modernize technology platforms.

• Brings current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems as it relates to the organization's competitive position to enable business outcomes.

• Collaborate closely with other engineers, architects, and partners to ensure product, platform, and data quality align with the global business objectives.

• Create a culture of empowering leaders to adopt innovative agile thinking.

• Communicate frequently with a variety of global stakeholders to ensure engagement and buy-in on decisions and proposed solutions.

• Aligns the development of critical applications to our future roadmap. Maintains broad knowledge of state-of-the-art principles and theory. Creates solutions for critical business challenges.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

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

• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.

• Proven experience (typically 20+ years) in technology leadership roles, with a track record of successfully leading global technology initiatives, transformations & digital innovation projects.

• Expert knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.

• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge of an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.

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

• Experience working in an international capacity and/or at a multi-national company, exposure to Japan markets preferred. Bilingual proficiency a plus.

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. Ability to story tell – make complex messages simple.

• Decision-Making & Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Interpersonal Relationship: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• Financial/Business Acumen: Strong knowledge of financial and/or business concepts, tools and processes and how financial metrics are used to monitor and drive outcomes. Includes understanding of company accounts/metrics (ex. Balance sheet, profit/loss, cash flow, budget, and forecast)

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming Languages: Python, Java or JavaScript

• Frameworks: React, Springboot, Node.js

• Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures

• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis

• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

• Cloud Computing

• DevOps Tools & Practices

• Software Development Life Cycle

• Test/Quality capabilities and methodologies

• Secure Coding Standards

• Microservices & Domain-Driven Design

• Architecture Patterns

• Design Thinking

• Agile

You'll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and a culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we'll help make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You'll be surprised by what this rock-solid 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%). 

• Company-funded pension plan. 

• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 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.