AVP, Solution Architect

Role Overview

• Own end-to-end architecture and technical direction for full stack web applications (UI, APIs, services, and data), aligning solutions to business goals and enterprise standards.
• Translate business and non-functional requirements into target architecture, detailed solution designs (HLD/LLD), and delivery roadmaps.
• Define front-end and back-end architecture patterns: React application structure, state management, Micro-Frontend strategy (where applicable), and Java/Spring Boot service design (layering, APIs, integrations).
• Design secure and scalable integrations (REST/event-driven), including authentication/authorization patterns (SSO/OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), API gateways, and data flows.
• Establish architecture guardrails and engineering standards (coding practices, API standards, error handling, logging, observability, performance, accessibility) and ensure adoption through reviews and governance.
• Guide teams on performance, resiliency, availability, and operational readiness (SLOs/SLAs, monitoring/alerting, capacity planning, DR).
• Drive technical risk management: identify dependencies, highlight gaps early, and propose mitigation/migration strategies (modernization, refactoring, tech debt reduction).
• Collaborate with product and delivery leadership on estimation inputs, sequencing, and release planning; support teams through complex technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers across the stack (Synchrony and vendor), promoting reusable components, reference implementations, and consistent patterns.
• Communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders; document decisions using ADRs and maintain architecture artifacts.
• Evaluate emerging technologies (including AI-assisted development and AI-enabled features) and recommend practical adoption with security/compliance guardrails.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years in architecture/technical leadership roles on full stack solutions or in lieu of a degree 10 + years in software engineering
• Deep hands-on expertise in Java , Spring/Spring Boot , and building scalable APIs/microservices (REST, asynchronous messaging/eventing).
• Strong hands-on experience with React JS and modern front-end engineering (TypeScript preferred, component architecture, performance optimization, accessibility basics).
• Experience designing and governing end-to-end full stack architectures , including API contracts, versioning, backward compatibility, and integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of security-by-design across UI and services: OWASP, secure coding, secrets management, SSO/OAuth2/OIDC, CSRF/XSS protections, and secure API design.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architecture (preferred): containerization, autoscaling, networking, observability, and cost/performance trade-offs.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevSecOps practices (build automation, quality gates, security scans, release strategies) and ability to define engineering guardrails.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL technologies, data modeling, query optimization, caching strategies, and transactional vs eventual consistency trade-offs.
• Familiarity with Micro-Frontends and front-end platform governance is a plus.
• Strong understanding of SDLC (Agile) , release/change management, incident management, and production readiness expectations.
• AI-assisted development proficiency (e.g., GitHub Copilot/enterprise LLM tools) to accelerate design, coding, testing, and documentation—used responsibly with security, privacy, and IP considerations.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Java
• JavaScript
• Microservices
• NoSQL
• React
• SDLC
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• SQL
• TypeScript

Benefits

• best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
• career advancement and upskilling opportunities, for all to take up leadership roles.