AVP, Senior Data Engineer

Role Summary/Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to provide technical leadership for building and enhancing on‑premises data warehouse solutions and accelerating our migration to AWS, including Amazon Redshift. This role is part of a fast‑paced, constantly changing environment and will play an important role in technology solutions at Synchrony.

• Understand and manage the data needs of stakeholders in a single business vertical.
• Design and implement scalable, fault‑tolerant data applications on on‑prem and AWS to store and process terabytes of data from upstream sources with high availability.
• Partner with information architects, platform architects, data scientists and product management on solution requirements to design solutions.
• Resolve problems through in‑depth evaluation of business processes, system processes, enterprise standards and procedures.
• Comply with data management policies, standards and procedures.
• Design, develop, test and oversee production implementation using on‑prem RDBMS platforms, Ab Initio, SQL and AWS (Amazon Redshift).
• Lead the technical team to ensure appropriate data solutions that meet business goals and identify necessary system and process enhancements.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Product Managers, Program Manager, Scrum Masters and team members in a Scaled Agile framework.
• Engage in mid‑level business partner engagement; manage relationships and inter‑group planning among technology leadership and peers.
• Stay up to date on latest trends in data engineering and recommended best practices.
• Utilize innovative frameworks to avoid redundancy by promoting automation.
• Collaborate with data engineering team members to promote Synchrony values and culture.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 4 years of experience in technology in the consumer banking industry OR High School Diploma/ GED and a minimum of 6 years of experience in technology OR successful completion of Synchrony’s Business Leadership Program.
• Experience with large‑scale relational databases and public cloud (AWS preferred) environments.
• Strong experience and deep understanding of ETL, data warehousing, cloud technologies (AWS) and analytics concepts.
• Strong engineering skills in on‑prem RDBMS/data warehouse platforms, Ab Initio (GDE/Co Operating System), advanced SQL, and AWS, including Amazon Redshift.
• Strong cloud engineering skills with AWS, including hands‑on experience with Amazon Redshift and related data services.
• Experience with batch and real‑time data pipelines in a Dev Ops environment.
• Willing to work in a fast‑paced environment with globally located Agile teams working in different shifts.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative working relationships with technology and business stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Adept at presenting complex topics and executing with timely, actionable follow‑through.
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required.

• Prior work experience in credit card, banking or fintech companies.
• Experience dealing with sensitive data in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience with data visualization technologies such as Tableau.
• Experience with APIs/Microservices in data‑driven applications.
• Demonstrated implementation of complex and innovative solutions.
• Articles and publications in the field of data engineering.
• Leadership by example; ability to motivate and work collaboratively as a team.

• 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 the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
• New hires (Level 4–7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months time in position before they can post for future…