VP, Solution Architect – Digital Servicing

Role Overview

• Design and guide the architecture for complex systems, ensuring that it is secure, scalable, performant, adaptable, and meets business needs.
• Assist in crafting and maintaining the architecture roadmap, future state technology architectural strategy, along with application modernization and migration roadmap.
• Design solutions to business needs by documenting systems, data, and business logic of an end-to-end business process.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards set by Synchrony.
• Be a leading architect for development teams, influencing them through all phases of Agile development life cycle.
• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create exceptional application solutions.
• Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies.
• Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams.
• Design data models to support complex business processes.
• Mentor and influence all levels of the team: in this role, you will have the opportunity to influence up and down the chain of command.
• Lead Agile sprints as the technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews.
• Participate in troubleshooting production defects, root cause analysis, incident reports, and provide direction in problem resolution.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year.
• Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance.
• Work with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company's products.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience with software engineering experience OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 10 years of experience with software engineering.
• Proven strong solution architecture skills and experience in designing complex technical solutions.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud native design patterns.
• Experience in architecting applications across the full stack including Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, RESTful APIs, API Gateway and Spring Framework.
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and related open-source technologies.
• Familiarity with JSON, REST, and XML based web services.
• Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with Oracle, MySQL, & SQL.
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) experience is desired.
• Experience in iOS, Android, Web, React and AWS is desired.
• Experience using Splunk or similar tools for production support.
• Experience developing and supporting financial/banking applications is desired.

Tech Stack

• Android
• AWS
• Cloud
• iOS
• Java
• Microservices
• MySQL
• Oracle
• React
• Splunk
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• SQL

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options