Director, Architecture Governance

Director, Architecture Governance (Finance)

Job Classification:
Technology - Architecture

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.

As a Director, Architecture Governance in the Chief Technology Office organization, you will collaborate with Global Technology and Operation's various functional areas, individual business units/corporate functions, and other control functions by identifying, monitoring, and managing risks associated with the use, ownership, operation, involvement, influence, and development / adoption of technology within an enterprise. In addition to 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.

• Oversight and management of the end-to-end architecture governance program to help manage risks by ensuring that architecture evaluation is done within the architecture governance processes. Evaluate architecture governance submissions to ensure alignment to architecture governance requirements. Maintain the enterprise product catalog.
• Identify, author, operationalize, optimize and communicate governance program/capabilities to house new architectural patterns, product life cycles, and other architecture governance requirements.
• Identify, author, operationalize, optimize, communicate and maintain enterprise architecture team processes (ie team way of working, Solution Architecture, Application Portfolio Management, etc.).
• Primary contact to field questions, support efforts and help individuals to navigate the architecture governance program and/or own activities related to the governance program or team processes (ie audit support, approval questions and product catalog management, etc.).
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts, products or technologies. Exercises latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Significant technology and leadership experience, preferably in architecture, architecture governance and/or risk management
• Demonstrated understanding of key IT concepts/processes such as Enterprise Architecture framework (principles, patterns, etc.), Access control, Open Source management, data handling and protection, Business Continuity, IT risks & controls, security monitoring, technical taxonomies and technology lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience with several of the following:
  Service Now, Flexera/Technopedia, Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira/Jira automation, Miro), Power
  
  BI, Microsoft Office Suite including Visio and Sharepoint
• Experience developing reports and dashboards and providing critical thinking summaries related
• Demonstrates strong ownership and is able to lead and work independently and optimally leveraging diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization; excellent problem solving skills
• Experience working in an agile environment; ability to drive incremental change while navigating ambiguity
• Significant understanding of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the role; deep understanding of the functional area and a competent understanding of the overall firm
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate sophisticated messages and new concepts to varying audiences
• Objective, diplomatic team player with excellent…