AVP Integration Engineer – OnePay

Overview

Role Summary/

Purpose:

Synchrony is seeking a skilled and motivated Integration Engineer to join our integration team dedicated to supporting One Pay, a Synchrony partner serving millions of customers in a new, first-of-its-kind credit card program for Walmart. The role involves acting as a technical leader within an agile team, designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, reliable integration solutions for the One Pay partnership. The successful candidate will work with architects, product owners, program managers, and engineers to ensure API performance, security, and interoperability between Synchrony and One Pay systems, fostering best practices and delivering high-quality integration solutions.

This position offers an opportunity to step into technical leadership within an agile fintech integration context.

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, you 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 travel to the nearest office for in-person engagements such as business or team meetings, training, and culture events.

• Serve as a technical leader within the One Pay Integration Agile team for development, deployment, and support of APIs and partner system interfaces.
• Lead the team’s efforts in designing and implementing reliable, scalable integration solutions that align with architectural principles and enterprise standards.
• Drive technical delivery deadlines and ensure high-quality outcomes across all integration projects and releases.
• Collaborate with product managers, senior architects, and external partners (One Pay) to translate business requirements into well-defined technical tasks.
• Promote best practices around API development, security, error handling, and performance tuning within the agile team.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers on the Integration team, facilitating knowledge sharing, skill development, and team growth.
• Take ownership of continuous improvement initiatives by identifying and championing innovations in integration architectures, tooling, and development processes.
• Participate in defining and refining CI/CD pipelines, code repository management, and testing automation to enhance delivery velocity and quality.
• Proactively monitor and address API reliability and availability issues, driving root cause analysis, preventive measures, and operational excellence.
• Help evolve integration patterns and tools to improve system interoperability and partner collaboration.
• Document architectural decisions, integration flows, and technical designs to support ongoing team operations and knowledge retention.
• Contribute actively to Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) to ensure aligned, high-performing teamwork.
• Perform other duties or special projects as assigned by the AVP, Solution Architect, or Agile leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field AND at least 4 years’ experience across multiple IT areas OR 8 years’ experience across multiple IT areas (in lieu of degree).
• Proven experience developing, deploying, and supporting RESTful APIs and microservices with Java Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks.
• Hands-on expertise with testing tools and frameworks such as JUnit, Postman, or JMeter.
• Familiarity with front-end JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React JS, Angular JS) is advantageous.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms and PaaS environments like AWS or Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Working knowledge of API management tools such as Apigee or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated understanding of secure API design principles and scalable, resilient architectures.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum or Kanban teams, and comfortable playing a technical leadership role within the team.
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required.

• Exposure to fintech or payment systems integration, particularly related to credit card or consumer financing…