VP, Cryptography Engineer

Role Summary / Purpose

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer will serve as a key role in safeguarding enterprise multi‑cloud systems, networks, and data. The position is responsible for designing, developing, driving, implementing, leading, and managing multi‑cloud Information Security Engineering activities for the Cryptography program, including the underlying capabilities and technologies. In addition, this role will act as a trusted peer and stakeholder advisor within the organization, working closely with Information Security Engineering leadership to ensure delivery of the overall program roadmap against the Cryptography strategy and vision.

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer is part of the Synchrony Information Security Cryptography Team, serving as a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) lead while supporting other efforts such as Cloud Security, Cryptography, Key‑Secrets Management, Privacy, and Tokenization. The candidate will focus on delivering critical enterprise data protection controls, efficient supporting processes, and comprehensive automation capabilities to protect and enable Synchrony’s Information Security Engineering strategy at scale.

• Adopting and promoting engineering excellence by identifying efficiencies and synergies through automation, collaboration, and orchestration
• Collaborating with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, identify solutions, and assist with proof‑of‑concepts and testing
• Leading implementation and technical support for a global cryptography program that leverages a portfolio of multi‑cloud data protection capabilities
• Managing technology from the ground up and understanding gaps within the tech stack, including overlapping or missing coverage
• Maintaining technology as part of business‑as‑usual (BAU) with proper change management, disaster recovery, and incident management processes
• Participating as one of several technical leads on a team of Information Security engineers
• Authoring, editing, providing, or reviewing documentation (procedures, standards) to ensure a well‑managed and mature security infrastructure
• Partnering with peers to effectively prioritize work using agile processes and ensuring risks, impediments, and requests are reported to leadership in a timely fashion
• Playing a hands‑on role in the engineering and implementation of multi‑cloud security measures that protect enterprise applications, computer systems, information, infrastructure, and networks
• Designing and building multi‑cloud solutions that safeguard the organization’s platforms and systems
• Proactively identifying problems and articulating solutions and recommendations
• Providing day‑to‑day administration and support for multi‑cloud infrastructure related to API, application security, firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection systems, PKI, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring tools, penetration testing, authentication, web filtering, identity management, or access control systems, and their associated logs and processes
• Providing engineering/operations support for multi‑cloud technology and processes, ensuring superior customer service and identifying process improvements
• Serving as a leader, mentor, and subject‑matter expert to other Information Security team members and stakeholders across the organization
• Serving as a SAFe Product Owner for cryptographic technologies, accountable for defining, leading, and maintaining the team backlog and product roadmap
• Supporting a “you build it you own it” model, meaning the technology built by Engineering is also supported from a wing‑to‑wing operations perspective
• Working closely with Information Security program managers, scrum masters, and architects to convey technical impacts to development/engineering timelines and risks
• Independently identifying opportunities to improve engineering or performance for Information Security/Technology and other functions across Synchrony
• Collaborating with Enterprise and Information Security/Technology application owners, architects, developers, engineers, and governance teams to drive program delivery
• Performing other duties and/or special…