Director, Release Train Engineer

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 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

As a Director, Release Train Engineer in Corporate Technology, you will partner with Chief Product Owners, Solution Architect Engineers, and delivery professionals to improve our Financial Management automation and orchestration capabilities. You will ensure strategy and execution alignment through collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to your deep expertise and experience in delivery, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership demeanor and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

The current EWA for this role is hybrid (minimum of 2 days/ week) in our Newark, NJ office.

Here is what you can expect on a typical day:

1. Serve as servant leadership for the teams and broader organization and act as Lead Scrum Master and coach for one of our Agile Release Train(s), consisting of up to 10 Agile teams.
2. Stand-up, launch, and ensure the ART stays on course by facilitating all its events, ceremonies, and processes while assisting the ART in delivering value and driving steadfast improvement.
3. Synthesize, track, and communicate Program Increment (PI) objectives, risks, and dependencies with key partners; supervise execution of features.
4. Ensure strategic alignment through collaboration with Chief Product Owners, Solution Architect Engineers, Tech Leads and other partners and collaborators on the ART and across the organization.
5. Provide an outstanding blend of strategic and tactical leadership.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

1. Minimum 1 year of experience as a Release Train Engineer
2. Experience in the Financial Management domain, especially actuarial modelling, is a plus
3. Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
4. Experience with agile development methodologies.
5. Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
6. Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and solving challenges.
7. Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.

Significant experience and/or deep expertise with several of the following:

1. Proficiency in multiple Agile methodologies, including Scaled Agile Framework, with proven expertise in scaling and delivery across teams of various maturity including start-ups.
2. Expertise in all aspects of Agile Team Facilitation including Pre PI-Planning, PI Planning, Scrum-of-Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt.
3. Proven grasp and practical experience in various Agile toolchains, including Jira, Jira Align, and Miro.
4. Strong leadership skills, both strategic and tactical, with a high degree of emotional intelligence.
5. Background in Agile delivery with a success record in building new products, capabilities, solutions, and teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Certified Release Train Engineer certification.
2. Experience in serving as a Release Train Engineer within the financial services industry across multiple verticals.
3. High degree of comfort in interacting with Senior Leadership Teams.

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and 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 you 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:

1. Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
2. Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
3. Retirement plans:
4. 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
5. Company-funded pension plan.
6. Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
7. 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.
8. Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
9. 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.

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 $160,700.00 to $217,300.00. 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.