Senior Director, Principal Data Engineer (PGIM, Inc., Newark, NJ)

Experience Required 8 years of related work experience ### Minimum Education Required Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or a related field ### Compensation $246,300.00 / Yearly ### Hours Per Week 40 ### Number Of Positions 1 ### Job Description Senior Director, Principal Data Engineer (PGIM, Inc., Newark, NJ) Architects enterprise governance frameworks, including metadata, catalog, glossary, and ownership, with adoption metrics tracked via Microsoft Purview.

Leads the strategy for market and research data engineering, defining centralized architecture and optimizing vendor spend. Builds and maintains a Data & AI Governance Portal to enable self-service access to third-party data, automating approvals and enforcing policy guardrails, including a vendor license repository. Establishes enterprise-wide data quality and lineage standards, including financial calculations, and develops supporting engineering solutions. Defines and implements Master Data Management (MDM) strategies for core entities. Operationalizes Responsible AI policies across model lifecycles, ensuring bias mitigation, explainability, and regulatory compliance. Governs multi-agent and Copilot systems, contributes to platform architecture convergence via the Data & AI Architecture Council, and standardizes Azure, Fabric, and Purview patterns. Enables cross-affiliate governance, engages executive stakeholders including CDO, CIO, CTO, CISO, and Risk leaders, and contributes to steering committees and regulatory interactions. Defines multi-year enterprise Data & AI strategy and operating models aligned with business, risk, and regulatory goals. Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days per week. Full time employment, Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, $246,300.00 per year.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or a related field, and 8 years of related work experience. Must have 7 years of experience in each of the following: * Data engineering; * Python and PySpark; and * AWS Services: S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDb, Step Function, Lakeformation, Microsoft Fabric, or Azure Blob Storage. Must have 6 years of experience in each of the following: * Version Control Tool - Bitbucket or GitHub; and * CI/CD Pipelines - Jenkins and flyway pipelines. Must have 5 years of experience in Database - SQLServer, Snowflake, and Redshift. Must have 4 years of experience in each of the following: * Job Orchestration - Step Function or Airflow; * Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation or Terraform; * Microservices (API development) using Fabric Lakehouse and Azure function apps or AWS Lambda and Rest API; * AI Engineering in AWS (Sagemaker and Bedrock) or Azure AI Foundry.