Senior Data & AI Engineer — Hybrid (Newark)

Prudential Financial, Inc in; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Education benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Prudential Financial, Inc. invites applications for a Senior Data Engineer in PGIM Technology. You will design, build, and maintain scalable data and AI solutions on cloud platforms, focusing on data ingestion, transformation, and AI-enabled pipelines.

The role requires hands-on engineering with ETL/ELT, PySpark, and SQL, plus experience deploying ML models and collaborating across teams. You will work in Newark, NJ under a hybrid model with on-site presence three days per week, contributing to

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience in data/AI engineering.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with data pipeline tools (ADF, Fabric, AWS Glue, etc.).
• Experience with Spark/PySpark.
• Familiarity with data lakes and warehouses.
• Experience deploying ML models.
• Basic MLOps understanding.
• Exposure to Generative AI (embeddings, RAG, LLM APIs).
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and Git.
• Understanding of data governance and security.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT).
• Develop solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, or similar.
• Implement data quality checks, transformations, and data modeling.
• Work with large-scale datasets using PySpark / SQL.
• Deploy and integrate machine learning models into pipelines.
• Develop AI-powered solutions (semantic search, embeddings, RAG).
• Build and expose data and AI services via APIs.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

PySpark

Cloud platforms

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

MLOps basics

Generative AI exposure

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Data Engineering

Tools

Azure Data Factory (ADF)

Microsoft Fabric

AWS Glue

Spark

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Prudential Financial, Inc. invites applications for a Senior Data Engineer in PGIM Technology. You will design, build, and maintain scalable data and AI solutions on cloud platforms, focusing on data ingestion, transformation, and AI-enabled pipelines.

The role requires hands-on engineering with ETL/ELT, PySpark, and SQL, plus experience deploying ML models and collaborating across teams. You will work in Newark, NJ under a hybrid model with on-site presence three days per week, contributing to