Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Center Enablement

Position: Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Center for Enablement
** Your Team & Role
** 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.

Prudential is on a technology modernization journey and APIs are at the heart of it. We are building a team to enable an API transformation across the enterprise. A new API gateway is being built, enhancements to our API portal strategy are underway, and the evangelization and education of developers for an API-centric/design first environment has begun.

As a Lead Developer for the API COE team within the CTO, you will work with a product owner to lead the critical technology strategy for API Management cifically, you will contribute hands-on to deliver on an API governance, standardization, and enterprise-usable API transformation program. You will partner with product owners, tech leads, and, most importantly, business application development teams to enable them on the Enterprise API platform.

You will enable API best practices, engineer automated pipelines for building APIs while creating reusable, reliable, consistent, and scalable APIs for consumption across and outside of Prudential.

Work with application development teams to enable the API transformation; provide coaching on API best practices, review use cases, and assist with the migration to the new API platform
** The Skills & Expertise You Bring
** Significant experience with API strategy; domain-driven and specification-based design methodology, developer portals, REST best practices, API standardization and governance

Significant API Architecture knowledge including REST, Graph

QL, GRPC, Websockets, and Async API capabilities

Experience building and managing API/Developer Portals

Experience with API management strategies and API gateway technologies (Kong, apigee, mulesoft, layer7, etc.)Experience in API design & tools; swagger hub, stoplight, REST, Graph

QL, GRPC, async

API Experience with working in technology transformation in an enterprise setting

Deep cloud & infrastructure management knowledge & experience Strong technical experience in

Experience with EKS, ECS, or other containerization platforms 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.  Bachelors Degree or equivalent relevant experience effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively 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 Relationships:
Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner. 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.

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.
** 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.  Some of the above benefits may not apply to…