Vice President – IT Architecture – PGIM Private Capital

Vice President – IT Architecture – PGIM Private Capital

Requirements

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering; Analytics; or experience in related fields
• Experience in working with DevOps automation tools & practices; Knowledge of full software development life cycle (SDLC)
• 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 on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills; enjoy learning new skills
• Leading internal teams and growing and developing talent
• Managing vendor relationships through 3rd party project teams, consultants, and staff augmentation contractors

Responsibilities

• Establish solutions that align with business and technology strategy and ensure they are consumable and available across the enterprise
• Provide architecture consulting on critical initiatives that have high visibility, impact and complexity
• Set technical standards and bring deep technical expertise and experience as evangelize and influence architectural change and adoption at an executive level
• Oversight of the engineering, quality assurance, and IT Operations team on defining the solution implementation that aligns with modern/tech-forward Patterns and Reference Architecture
• Co-create and evaluate reference implementations that can be leveraged by engineering teams
• Partner with engineering teams to explain and evangelize patterns and reference architectures, drive the adoption of architecture principles, modularization and patterns and influence implementation solutions in alignment with our modernization goals
• Ensure architecture standards and solution architecture designs align with security requirements
• Review new technology use cases, define/design Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB)-approved architecture patterns, and guide the PPC Emerging Technology & AI review board
• Scan the market for emerging solutions and new architectural concepts that address challenges or enable new use cases
• Recommend new technologies to address challenges or deliver solutions where existing technology doesn’t exist, existing technology doesn’t adequately meet business needs, or new technology delivers better outcomes (e.g., higher performance, lower cost, etc.)
• Evaluate the application portfolio; apply Application Portfolio Management practices and influence application disposition for the application portfolio

Preferred Qualifications

• Vendor landscape – Allvue, Salesforce, Sentry, Anaplan, Wall Street Office
• Proficient with Microsoft Tooling – Office, Fabric, CoPilot, PowerBI, Power Apps, Purview
• Experience in various front-end technologies – C#, .NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, HTML, React