Director, Scaled Delivery & SDLC Enablement

Prudential Ins Co of America; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

PTO and leave

Job summary

Prudential Ins Co of America is seeking a Director, SDLC and Delivery Enablement to lead the enterprise delivery evolution. You will define standards, governance, and practices that accelerate value realization with quality and transparency.

In this role, you will partner with risk, compliance, architecture, and technology teams, influence senior leaders, and drive AI-enabled delivery improvements across large, matrixed organizations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in Product Management, Agile, Delivery Excellence, SDLC, Process Excellence, Transformation.
• Product Owner/Product Management experience highly desired.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Agile delivery methodologies, Lean principles, SDLC practices, and delivery governance.
• Strong experience leveraging delivery metrics and performance insights to drive decision-making.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive change in complex matrixed organizations.
• Experience with AI-enabled delivery practices, automation, or modern software delivery frameworks preferred.
• Financial services or other regulated industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of Scaled Lean Delivery and SDLC methodologies across Prudential.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Security, Architecture, Engineering, and Testing teams to ensure delivery standards remain effective and scalable; automate controls where possible.
• Identify opportunities to simplify delivery while maintaining appropriate risk management and controls.
• Apply lean, agile, and process excellence principles to solve complex, cross-functional delivery challenges.
• Embed practices that increase predictability, reduce work-in-progress, and improve value realization.
• Influence leaders and delivery organizations to adopt outcome-driven and flow-based delivery practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on delivery challenges, organizational impediments, and transformation opportunities.
• Build alignment across stakeholders with differing priorities and levels of maturity.
• Drive sustainable behavioral and process change.
• Use delivery data, flow metrics, KPI dashboards, and operational insights to identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure improvements result in tangible business outcomes.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership audiences.
• Evaluate industry trends, emerging delivery models, and AI capabilities to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement across methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Identify systemic opportunities to increase speed, quality, efficiency, and employee experience.
• Contribute to the future vision of lean delivery excellence across Prudential.

Skills

Product Owner

Agile delivery

Delivery governance

Stakeholder management

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Prudential Ins Co of America is seeking a Director, SDLC and Delivery Enablement to lead the enterprise delivery evolution. You will define standards, governance, and practices that accelerate value realization with quality and transparency.

In this role, you will partner with risk, compliance, architecture, and technology teams, influence senior leaders, and drive AI-enabled delivery improvements across large, matrixed organizations.