Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Center Enablement

Position: Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Center for Enablement

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 & Role

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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

Define, automate, and execute on API transformation inclusive of security, specification, and operability standards

Partner with your Tech Lead to execute on technical delivery

Influence product roadmap based on an partnerships with the business and potential to simplify and reduce code duplication and improve the API strategy.

Provide technical expertise as it relates to API management, API platform infrastructure, and API development.

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

Lead with an IaC and automation mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.

Identify opportunities for simplification in API development and platform management processes.

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; swaggerhub, stoplight, REST, Graph

QL, GRPC, asyncAPI

Experience with working in technology transformation in an enterprise setting

Deep cloud & infrastructure management knowledge & experience

Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code Terraform, Cloud Formation, ansible, or similar

Cloud Architecture, resiliency, and multi region design strategies.

Experience with EKS, ECS, or other containerization platforms

Authentication and Authorization – Oauth2

Edge Security & WAFObservability – metrics, logging, and end-to-end tracing

DevOps and branching models to support frequent changes (e.g., trunk)
Regression, unit, contract, performance, and stress testing

Production operations and incident response for a global high-volume platform

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

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

Expertise with several of the following:

Effective Communication:
Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret…