AVP, Senior Data Engineer

Synchrony Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to provide technical leadership in building and enhancing on-premises data warehouse solutions while accelerating migration to AWS. The role involves managing data needs, designing scalable data applications, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure effective data solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and manage the data needs of stakeholders in a single business vertical
• Responsible for the design and implementation of scalable & fault tolerant data applications on on-prem & 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 & procedures
• Comply with data management policies, standards and procedures
• Responsible for design, development, testing oversight, and production implementation using on‑prem RDBMS platforms, Ab Initio, SQL, and AWS (Amazon Redshift)
• Lead the technical team to ensure appropriate data solutions to meet business goals as well as identify and define 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; management of relationship and inter-group planning among technology leadership/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

Requirements:

• 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 or experience in Technology OR successful completion of Synchrony's Business Leadership Program
• Experience with large scale relational database 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 DevOps 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 and presenting complex topics executing with timely / actionable follow-through
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required
• Prior work experience in a Credit card/Banking/Fin tech 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
• Be the captain of the team, lead by example, motivate, and work together as a team