VP, Enterprise Cloud Architect

Job Description:

Join us in shaping the future for millions of cardholders and billions of transactions through cutting‑edge products that empower consumers and drive merchant growth. At the heart of this innovation are the platforms that run our diverse applications — and you could be the architect behind them.

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in‑person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

• Define and own application migration roadmaps for enterprise portfolios.
• Assess existing applications to determine optimal migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, replace).
• Architect hybrid and cloud‑native solutions ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Lead, architect, and review technological solutions that meet business requirements and deliver business value through modern software design, development, and delivery.
• Drive, support and influence cloud strategies, application architecture and migration roadmaps while ensuring alignment with internal technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, assessment, and dependency mapping of application landscapes.
• Partner with application owners and development teams to adapt workloads for the cloud.
• Work with teams to ensure automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD practices for repeatable efficient migrations.
• Provide guidance and direction to project teams to ensure security, compliance, and governance requirements are met for migrated applications.
• Collaborate with internal resources and third‑party vendors to resolve issues and to understand the causes and provide solutions.
• Establish monitoring and performance baselines before and after migration.
• Work closely with engineering, security, finance (Fin Ops), and business stakeholders to align migration outcomes with strategic goals.
• Mentor cloud engineers and solution architects on best practices for migration and cloud adoption.
• Act as a subject matter expert in cloud transformation programs.
• Maintain hands‑on technical knowledge of AWS Service, cloud design principals and application architectures.
• Enterprise Architect for SYF which will work with teams to develop and maintain the EA strategy, roadmap and standards that align with business goal.
• Chair the Architecture Review Board and facilitate cross‑domain architectural reviews ensuring ARB outcomes are transparent, documented and traceable to business and technical strategy.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in IT architecture, infrastructure, or application development.
• 3+ years designing and implementing cloud solutions (AWS).
• Proven track record leading enterprise‑scale application migration projects.
• Experience with containerization, microservices, and Dev Ops practices.
• Expert in AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Terraform.
• Proficiency with migration and modernization patterns.
• Proven understanding of cloud computing and Dev Ops fundamentals.
• Understanding of networking, security, IAM, and compliance in the cloud.
• Experience working collaboratively in cross‑functional teams, with the ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders.

• Knowledge of databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, No
  
  SQL).
• Experience in the Financial industry
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking, Security, or Database Specialty.
• Experience with other CSP provider such as Azure, GCP, and Oracle.

• You must be 18 years or older
• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent
• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process
• You must be able to satisfy…